Pride Park based, Essential Print Services, is bursting with pride over its recent office move and a record-breaking month of sales. The new move will not only allow its workforce to double in size, which cannot have happened at a better time since they are also celebrating one of their best sales months ever. The…
Derby Hub’s Koobr discusses the importance of website readability, and how you can maximise the overall effectiveness of your website copy. At its most basic premise, your website is a directory for the purpose of serving your customers with important information; who you are; what you do; how you do it — everything a prospective…
If your website doesn’t accurately represent your brand, you’re doing your business a huge disservice. Derby Hub’s Koobr discuss why and how you can strengthen your brand identity with a better website. Your brand identity is the absolute summation of who you are and what you do, while your website is your most powerful online…
Being part of yesterday’s presentation ‘How your small business can make a big impact’ together with Yvonne Gorman from Essential Print Services and my colleague Craig Barker from Koobr was a giggle from planning to presentation. Our goal, ‘Make it memorable’, and the first suggestion was….fancy dress, oh no here we go! We then decided…
A presentation provides a limited amount of time to present a message or topic to an audience, that audience could be an individual person or hundreds of people. Whether it’s 60 seconds or 60 minutes, it’s a story that needs structure with a beginning, middle and an end. It doesn’t necessarily have to be supported…
An effective point of sale makes all the difference between business success and inefficiency. Derby Hub member CBE’s highlights 5 Great Benefits of an EPoS System for a Restaurant or Bar. The challenges of running a successful bar or restaurant are very different from other forms of retail environments, but an effective (Electronic Point-of-Sale) EPoS…
Proposed fracking could disrupt private properties and places of business across the East Midlands. Derby Hub member Nelsons Solicitors discusses litigation and what you can do if fracking plans are a concern for your place of business. A drilling company has approached the landowners of Sherwood Forest for permission to carry out seismic surveys which…
Is your business at risk from information thieves? Derby Hub member Owen at Code 56 explains the dangers of ‘phishing’ and how to prevent it from happening to you. Phishing (pronounced “fishing”) is a type of social engineering attack, where the attacker sends people some “bait” (hence the name) to trick them in to exposing…