Online price comparison emerged in the UK in the early noughties and quickly became big business. There are around a dozen dominant comparison websites, with a handful owning significant market share, including Money Supermarket, GoCompare and Compare The Market – consisting of well-known brands and always present on TV and radio advertising. Customers can visit […]
Startup
8 Marketing Hacks Every Startup Should Perfect
The art of marketing has its undeniable benefits, but it has a slightly different meaning for startups. How come? Simply put, startups operate in a different environment than traditional businesses, which is chiefly reflected in their “family-oriented” way of doing business. In a successful startup, each team member sees success and failure as shared contributions, […]
What to Look for in a Small Business Insurance Provider
Finding the right insurance policy for your business is going to be crucial, but you also need to make sure that this policy is coming from the right provider. Let’s take a look at some of the things that you should be focusing on if you want to find insurance policies that best benefit your […]
How to Find Investors for Your Small Business Dream
Starting a small business can be more than just a dream. If it is something you have considered, you probably know that coming up with the financial backing to launch a successful endeavor can be a challenge. One way to get the funds you need is through investors. Finding people willing to invest in your […]
8 Handy Tips to Generate Business Ideas
As Richard Branson once said, business ideas are like buses; there is always another one coming. Business ideas are everywhere – if you pay close enough attention to them. Although generating business ideas can become natural to some, for others, it may seem like a daunting task. Generating a business idea is not necessarily an […]
4 Smart Ways to Embrace Change to Grow Your Business
Pixabay (CC0 License) The first few years of a business are generally the trickiest time to traverse, with obstacles arising on a regular basis. To be more accurate, those obstacles won’t stop arising the longer the business goes on; you will just have more experience in handling them and know which ones to take seriously. […]
Starting Your Own Machine Business: 4 Tips To Drive Sales
Taking the reins of your own business can be a fulfilling and rewarding process, although there is definitely a learning curve to accommodate. You will also need to tweak your strategies to boost sales as you get underway, fixing imperfections to win new customers. If you are looking for advice on what it takes to […]
Can You Build a Company, Not Just a Product?
Some businesses are built around a single idea. And sometimes that idea is just too small a slice of the big picture to be interesting to investors. There was a recent investor event where I was keynote speaker, on stage only after several panels of experts had wowed the audience with their predictions and […]
Learn From New Venture Trials & Tribulations
Entrepreneurs seem more quickly frustrated these days when their “million-dollar idea” doesn’t turn into a sustainable business overnight. They don’t realize that it takes many skills to build a business under the best of circumstances, and today’s world of instant gratification doesn’t leave room for the patience and practice to develop these skills. Successful sports […]
Personal Story: How to Bring a Startup to Market
We have been involved in many new ventures, either directly or through the banks and agencies where we’ve worked. Now, at Flagship Marketing we see a lot of start-ups and scale-ups and we have a special interest in helping them grow. Following are some of our experiences of bringing a start-up to market. My earliest […]
