3 steps to successful face to face networking
'Networking is not selling' and if that is the only message you take from this article then I have been successful. Networking is about...
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Alec Drew - The Business Expert
- Jan 2
- 2 min
3 important questions you need to consider
What will you do differently this year to get you closer to your dream? Are you prepared to invest anything to help you drive your...
Alec Drew - The Business Expert
- Dec 14, 2022
- 2 min
How much did you invest in yourself in 2022?
The day you stop learning about life and business is the day you take your last breath. As someone who has spent more than 40 years...
Alec Drew - The Business Expert
- Dec 7, 2022
- 2 min
Make 2023 your best year ever for business!
If you have seen the film Groundhog Day you will know that the main character played by Bill Murray finds himself in a place where every...
Alec Drew - The Business Expert
- Sep 5, 2022
- 2 min
Recession, what recession?
There is a recession coming, how do I know, because every day we get further away from the last one, we get a day closer to the next one,...
Alec Drew - The Business Expert
- Jul 18, 2022
- 3 min
Let's make email work for us
How much is email costing your organisation every year, well according to a report from the International Journal of Internet and...
Alec Drew - The Business Expert
- Jul 4, 2022
- 3 min
Where is your time being spent?
Time poor is an expression that we seem to hear on a regular basis, and I suppose the question that must be asked is, are we time poor...
Alec Drew - The Business Expert
- May 24, 2022
- 2 min
7 practical tips to make internal meetings more productive
We have all attended them, the meeting that rambles on with no clear focus or outcomes, where petty squabbles and side issues suck the...
Alec Drew - The Business Expert
- May 17, 2022
- 4 min
Have you a process in place when you lose a customer/client?
We all lose customers and it is part of the natural cycle of business but it is important to understand why it happened as it may prevent...
Alec Drew - The Business Expert
- Apr 13, 2022
- 4 min
What is the value of an organisation chart?
When we are starting out in business we have the ability to remember virtually every aspect of our business. It is in our head and we can...
Alec Drew - The Business Expert
- Mar 29, 2022
- 3 min
What do you do?
What do you do maybe one of the most common questions you are asked and it is natural for people to reply by saying IT, we have an...
Alec Drew - The Business Expert
- Feb 26, 2022
- 6 min
Simple tips around managing the company purse strings.
Should you be offering credit - in my business I look for payment up front because I cannot take back the knowledge that I am imparting...
Alec Drew - The Business Expert
- Jan 18, 2022
- 3 min
How is your team coping with their 'Weapon of Mass Distraction?
We are all walking around carrying weapons of mass distraction on our person, namely the smartphone. For those born at the beginning of...
Alec Drew - The Business Expert
- Jan 12, 2022
- 2 min
So you would like more business...
As we start the year every business owner is out there looking for new business opportunities. Let me help you by providing a list of...
Alec Drew - The Business Expert
- Jan 4, 2022
- 2 min
There should be a 'P' in January
Before the introduction of sat nav it was necessary to plan your journey in detail. Firstly, you would take out a map and identify...
Alec Drew - The Business Expert
- Nov 8, 2021
- 3 min
It's the same date every year!
Have you ever received a Christmas Card on the 2nd of January, what went through your mind? Could this have been executed better? What we...
Alec Drew - The Business Expert
- Oct 6, 2021
- 3 min
Cyber-attack, not if but when
I am not a cybercrime expert and you don’t have to be either to be aware of the increasing number of individuals and organisations being...
Alec Drew - The Business Expert
- Sep 28, 2021
- 2 min
The Value of the Zero invoice
One of the challenges we all face in business is the request for the little extras. It is particularly difficult when you have just...
Alec Drew - The Business Expert
- Sep 6, 2021
- 4 min
What's your favourite topic?
We all know our favourite topic and the challenge is to manage it so we do not lose our audience, Whether in a social setting or business...
Alec Drew - The Business Expert
- May 25, 2021
- 5 min
Email Tips and Tools for everyone
Apart from Social Media the predominant business tool for communications is email. Unfortunately we all tend to use it in different ways...
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