Geoff Young explains the five simple steps to get a lender to say yes to your proposals and get the cash you need.

Once you have opened for business there is one thing that is uppermost on your mind - cashflow. Geoff Young explains the 5 Golden Rules for Financial Health in your first 12 months of trading.

There are many reasons why Companies choose leasing to acquire equipment necessary to run and grow their businesses. Geoff Young explains the 14 key benefits of Leasing.

You have a good business, but are encountering the frustrations and pressures of managing your cash flow, if neglected a good business can fail. Stephen Jackson helps to clarify the problem; cause, effect and solutions.

Attracting the right team to power your business is not easy. You know that the right people are out there but how do you find them, attract them and hire them? If all of this is successful, how do you then retain them? Nick Brown explains how...

We all know that time is a finite resouce, and yet we still don't use it well enough to achieve all that we set out to do, or to enjoy it in the process. Nick Brown explains how to organise and optimise your time.

A Company is sometimes described as a group of people joining together for the common purpose of achieving a reward in return for the injection of resouces into the enterprise. David Johnston explains.

Many companies are embarking on Six Sigma programmes. What is it and are you missing an opportunity for serious business improvement? David Johnston explains.

If you are a novice, writing a business book can be fraught with frustrations. In fact, writing your own book is not the best way to get published - if the book is important then use a 'ghost' writer. James Noon explains why and how...

What the devil has style got to do with managing a business? It's all down to me getting the costs down and selling more. Trendy management-speak doesn't work in my type of business - and that's that! Nick Brown explains why it does...

Some companies consistently achieve year-on-year sales growth while others always experience feast or famine. The difference between outstanding performance and mediocrity is within the grasp of any company. Paul Chapman discusses how...

David Johnston explains about company databases.

David Johnston explains how the quality of work can be greatly enhanced by improving processes.

David Johnston explains how the core benefits come from using sound statistical methods in a directed way.

David Johnston explains how a structured approach for scientists and engineers improve the development and deployment of new products.

Factoring or Invoice Discounting? Geoff Young explains the pros and cons of each to enable you to make the correct decision for your Business.

Is your business drifting? Are you in control? Nick Brown explains how to take control with effective indicators tailored to suit your company.

You have a successful business and you want to take it to the next stage. But, your growth plans are not producing the results you want. It's a quandary and a worry. Jeremy Halliday explains about barriers to growth...

Difficult trading circumstances can often cause problems for businesses. Believe it or not, the business principles you started out with are the sames ones that should become your driving force. Paul McKibbin explains what you need to know.

If you really fancy being a published author then read this article. If you start to write your book, you will find it the most frustrating thing you have done for a while - then it will be the most satisfying. James Noon gives a few tips...

Geoff Young explains how to write a winning Business Plan with some easy to follow simple rules.

James Short concentrates on the major challenge of putting aspirations into practice. How to achieve the goals and targets that CEOs and Managing Directors set themselves and their businesses.

For most owners, selling a business for the first time is an unfamiliar task and it's a difficult and emotional time - especially if you work in your business every day. Phil Burnley looks at the issues that can affect the price you get for your business...

We all make plans for our businesses. Inevitably, they are based on our opinions and experiences since our businesses were launched and rarely are they challenged in a structured and rigorous way. Mike Robson asks the difficult questions...

Being successful in your business is just like the perfect golf shot - It takes practice but also comes naturally in time. Paul McKibbin explains how

What is best for the overall Business Plan of your Business? Loan or Equity Finance? Geoff Young helps answer 'The Big Question'.

Stephen Jackson has spent many years working in the City of London as a Corporate Banker, negotiating multi-million pound commercial transactions and has a proven track record of success. He explains how negotiation skills could have a fundamental and beneficial effect on your business.

Just because your new product is faster, cheaper, better than anything that has gone before does not mean that it will automatically be successful in the market. Paul Fileman explains a logical process from concept through to making money, which will ensure you are successful.

Planning is a multi-faceted and often spoken about subject. There seem to be as many ways to achieve successful planning as there are theories of good management. James Short looks at how best you can adapt your own style of planning to improve its effectiveness.

As Stephen Jackson explains, the days of "easy credit" are over. Being in direct competition with other companies you need to impress your bank to satisfy your funding requirements.

Put in its most simplistic form, Strategic Planning is that act that enables a company to set down a plan of where it is going over the next few years, how it will get there and just as importantly how it will know if it has arrived (or maybe not). James Short explains.

We use the term "Six Sigma" to describe processes that operate at the highest quality levels with minimum variation and producing less than four defects per million opportunities. David Johnston explains.

Most people who build a business build it around their skills. This is fine in the early stages but it often means that vital parts of the business do not evolve properly - this restricts the ability to succeed. Mike Robson explores all the issues...

James Short identifies the basic principles used in military leadership and management, which are directly applicable to business. Military decision making is more closely aligned to the business world than you might think.

Do you view your business plan as a dynamic document or a paperweight for your bank manager's desk? Do you even have a plan? David Mellor explains why a plan is important and how to make it work for you...

We regularly read articles discussing the wisdom, or otherwise, of employing external business or management consultants. Management and business consultants have a bad name for consuming cash and delivering little. Paul Fileman explains why this reputation is undeserved.

The human brain is not well adapted to analytical problem solving and relies to a great extent on more congenital thought processes plus instinct and emotion. David Johnston explains.

In times of severe financial pressure the stress that an owner manager comes under is hard to appreciate. Geoff Young clarifies what must and must not be done.

Writing a business book is not the most obvious strategy for growing a business but it can be the most powerful. In fact, a business book could turn your business into a sector leading business. James Noon explains the strategy...

Is your customer's cash flow limiting your sales and causing your people to struggle to finalise the deal? Revolutionise your sales using a tailored 'Sales Aid Finance' solution ..... Geoff Young explains.