As a small business who has spent the past two years recruiting for SMEs, we really do understand where you are now and how your journey may have tracked a slightly different route to the one initially mapped out. We’re ...

I’ve owned one yo-yo in my life; it was bright orange and on one side it had a sticker of Donny Osmond. I think I was about ten years old when I bought it, with some pocket money. Having not ...

I’ve always been a walker, from a small child striding around my parents garden, as a teenager going on long walks with friends, at university taking on challenges like the West Highland Way (54 miles in 24 hours), to now, ...

I had been living in London for nearly ten years when I first met John. I didn’t have much insight into military life other than wearing a poppy every November, and while he was posted to London, we had a ...

A startup's goals are varied. Developing a product or service, beginning to acquire customers or getting noticed by potential future investors are often at the forefront of founders’ thoughts. A lot of this comes down to brand awareness which can ...

We are entering a new phase – a new phase in a new world.  A world that this time a year ago would have been unimaginable.  After months of lockdown stasis, businesses are re-opening, leisure activities are a possibility again ...

If you found work-life balance difficult before lockdown, it’s bound to have become even worse in recent months. Here are three tips for improving the situation. Ditch the parent guilt Lockdown led to the collapse of already fragile childcare structures. ...

The phrase goes – “You never get a second chance to make a first impression” and this is never more true than with a new employee’s first day with the company, particularly when you aren’t spending any physical face to ...

As we approach the much-heralded new norm, businesses ready themselves to return to some semblance of business as usual.  However, those business that settle for this, will have failed to have grasped the huge opportunities that Covid in its wild, ...

“The new normal”; it’s a phrase being coined across the whole world right now. But, as we navigate our way through the current global pandemic, what does “the new normal” really mean? How do we learn from the past to ...

What do WhatsApp, Groupon, Slack, Instagram, Uber and Pinterest have in common? They were all born during the last recession and many entrepreneurs struggling in the current economic client retain a sliver of hope that their idea will be a ...

I’ve learned a lot from working with great communications (comms) marketing and branding professionals. Those experiences have developed my ability to build more effective comms plans to support change, launch tech or get engagement. But, communicating in a crisis? That’s ...