Norwood Business Portal

If you are prepared to be a good corporate citizen your staff will be more likely to want to get involved as well. Make it easy for them to do this and encourage them to participate. It is important not to be threatening or intimidating—some people just don’t want to get involved and that is [...]

Helping other businesses to grow and succeed is a worthy community activity. You can offer to share your experiences at a business gathering or even a presentation at a school. It is surprising how many of these organisations struggle to find interesting people to share their knowledge and experiences.

When you get caught up in your own business it is easy to start to break your life into two very distinct halves—the business half and the non-business half. The business half can easily become the biggest part, after all you have a lot riding on it and you are enthused and passionate about what [...]

Trying to decide how to get involved in your community can be quite challenging as there are so many opportunities; however, there are always some opportunities that are a little less obvious but equally worthy. A while back I used to work for a bus company operating specialised tours.

Portion of our sales policy for our gardening organization is the fact that we do not spend for marketing. We run our own direct advertising and marketing employing tactics we’ve perfected more than the years we’ve been trading. But if we had been to advertise, I’d contain our internet site in each and every ad [...]