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Running A Business Event In Style

Posted on by Emma Reed

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There are a range of reasons as to why you might throw an internal business event. Perhaps you’re running your first award show to try and congratulate the excellent workers in your business. Perhaps you wish to have a great party to help everyone wind down at the end of the year. Maybe you wish to celebrate a business milestone, or maybe you wish to present your business at a trade show. Running an event or business presentation in style can be well worth it because it helps you pop out. More and more businesses are clamouring to show they have some form of corporate personality, be that through insightful or funny comments on Twitter, carefully ‘approachable’ marketing copy or a range of other carefully calculated considerations. Continue reading “Running A Business Event In Style” →

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Top Tips that will Help you to Email More Efficiently

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Nobody likes having an endless list of emails to reply to. It’s hard work and you may even find that it’s time-consuming as well. If you want to put an end to this once and for all then here are a few tips that will help you to get started. Continue reading “Top Tips that will Help you to Email More Efficiently” →

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Is It Worth Moving For Money?

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Location can be very important when you’re working on your career. Most cities and towns will have their own specialities, with large parts of the population pitching in, making it hard for those who want to do something different. Of course, there is always the option of moving away, but it can be hard to tell if this is the right course of action to take. To help you out with this, this post will be exploring the idea of moving for money, along with the benefits and negatives which come with it. Continue reading “Is It Worth Moving For Money?” →

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Here’s How You Could Add Way More Hours to Your Day

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It’s true that a 25-hour day isn’t going to happen, and although that would be great, there really isn’t anything that you can do to literally extend the day. There are things that you can do, however, to make the day feel longer than it actually is. If you want to feel as though your days are so much longer, then you can find out everything you need to know right here. Continue reading “Here’s How You Could Add Way More Hours to Your Day” →

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A Writer’s Guide To Finding Inspiration Around The Home

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If you’ve ever cursed your job as you frantically check your watch in backed up traffic, dreading the conversation with your boss when you roll in late. If you’ve even fought through rain and sleet among busy streets thronging with commuters. If you’ve ever felt your heart sink when a voice on the radio tells you that a broken down vehicle is causing significant delays on the motorway home, you may feel that working from home is some sort of elysian paradise, however optimistic you try to be about your commute. The allure of the home office may be a romantic notion to commuters on a dark and rainy November morning. Continue reading “A Writer’s Guide To Finding Inspiration Around The Home” →

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Surviving Working From Home During The School Holidays

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If you are a parent that works from home you will know that once the school holidays begin your work/home life balance will take a nose dive. No matter how good your intentions are to be the ‘perfect’ all rounder, in reality, something has to give because there is no way you can continue with the same workload whilst trying to entertain the little ones… or not so little ones!

This has been a new concept for me as I Continue reading “Surviving Working From Home During The School Holidays” →

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The Curse Of Trying To Do It All

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I’m not quite sure how I’ve got to this point, in actual fact, I have been preaching since I started blogging that you time is important and about how you shouldn’t forget who you are yet here I am, sat almost a year on worn out from simply trying to do it all and being on top of everything. 

I think the issue may have kicked in once Continue reading “The Curse Of Trying To Do It All” →