David Summerton Business Consulting
An Entrepreneur’s Checklist For Success Some key questions to ask yourself about your business: be totally honest and act fully on your responses. What business am I in?What business should I be in? (Hopefully the same as for the question above!)What is my Vision and where do I want to be?What is going well?What can …
An Essential Entrepreneurial Strategy Running your own business is a very exciting but demanding process, not having to follow a corporate plan with which you may, or may not, fully agree with and subscribe to. You are now in the envious position of making and shaping your OWN strategy and are free from the constraints …
Knowing Yourself As An Entrepreneur – Getting Your Focus To be successful in your business, and in all other parts of your life, you HAVE to sit down and carefully analyse yourself so that both areas of strength and areas for development can be identified and dealt with accordingly. For the dedicated Entrepreneur this boils …
Continue reading "Knowing Yourself As An Entrepreneur – Getting Your Focus"
The Building Blocks For Successful Entrepreneurs For successful and long-term business development there are four key areas or themes that need to be uppermost in your mind when setting out on your Entrepreneurial journey. Theme 1: Entrepreneurial Behaviours. This includes identifying opportunities, obtaining and levering in resources to allow the business to grow, networking, creativity …
Continue reading "The Building Blocks For Successful Entrepreneurs"
What Is Entrepreneurship? Having an idea worth chasing, thinking of products and services that people need but cannot find, making a profit, re-investing profits to grow the business, doing something very different and being at the cutting edge of the market. All worthy descriptions about how you want your business to grow and develop: you …
The Top 5 Management Challenges Facing Every Manager The manager’s role is never easy and different sectors and organisations often have their own unique set of strategic and operational issues. That said, the following strategic issues should be on every manager’s mind: Communication: who do I/we communicate with, on what and when, what level of …
Continue reading "The Top 5 Management Challenges Facing Every Manager"
How Entrepreneurs Should Keep Customers Happy Good customer experience is not just a matter of delivering a product or service efficiently, although performance at this level is important. There are often emotional and situational elements too. If you fail to consider the feelings and perceptions of your customer, responding to queries and complaints as quickly …
Continue reading "How Entrepreneurs Should Keep Customers Happy"
4 Red Hot Tips For Every Entrepreneur Nothing ever stands still and the line between a successful and unsuccessful business is often down to the way in which the entrepreneur works to modify and refine the business model. This drive for development and enhancement of the initial idea or strategy often makes us nervous, yet …
The 5 Key Business Growth Challenges Facing An Entrepreneur Starting a business is a huge accomplishment for most entrepreneurs and the accomplishment of a lifetime dream. Starting a business does, however, involve a lot of challenges and a high degree of risk but experience shows that the five most critical tests are outlined below: Depending …
Continue reading "The 5 Key Business Growth Challenges Facing An Entrepreneur"
DSbc 