What is Business Mentoring?

Business mentoring is about getting advice and direction from a specialist who is wise in a particular area.
Business mentoring is where a small business operator is matched up with an experienced and trusting advisor.
For these reasons, and many more, business mentoring is increasingly popular as a solution to a multitude of business challenges. Mentoring is a highly interactive process and requires strong commitment from both the mentor and the business directors/management team. If interested in researching or learning more about business mentoring, please look at the Davison Consultancy website for more details.
The most critical component in mentoring, most professionals would agree, is being able to listen. The key differences between coaching and mentoring are: Mentoring invents a future based on past experience whereas coaching invents a future from an individual’s own suggestions and input.MentorMentoring is one way in which small businesses can advance business development rapidly by drawing on the experience, skills and knowledge of successful business managers and business professional service providers. Mentoring covers everything from help with planning and researching your business and assistance with your business plan through to the sharing of contacts and encouragement to help you reach your goals. Mentoring is designed to uncover talents and enhance skills in a supportive and open relationship. Mentoring has been used successfully in the workplace for years.Business Mentoring is designed to give you the tools, knowledge and resources to accelerate your business. For these reasons, and many more, business mentoring is increasingly popular as a solution to a myriad of challenges. Business mentoring is an enduring relationship that helps you realise your potential and achieve your business goals.

Rob

http://www.davisonconsultancy.co.uk

Business Internet Strategy

Internet Strategy is more than developing web business strategies and a web design strategy. As a business, the ultimate objective of an Internet strategy is to convert a looker into a client. An internet strategy is a plan for how your business will use the internet.Strategy

An Internet Strategy is a plan for how your business will use the internet. It should develop and implement the vision, devising a solid Internet Strategy based upon real business objectives. I believe that your Internet Strategy should, first and foremost, support your business objectives.

Website

Your website is the most valuable piece of marketing collateral that you develop. The truth is a website that sells a product or service is still a business. As your business processes change, along with technology changes, your website needs to do the same. Internet Consultancy is a key aspect when considering a website project.

An Internet Strategy is an in-depth analysis of how online technologies and tools can be implemented within a company to help reach its goals and objectives. If your Internet Strategy is not generating good qualified leads, getting the applications, getting the phone calls, streamlining your application process or at least building a list of your customers that visit your site online, what is it doing for you. An effective Internet Strategy is more than web design or web site development.

Rob

http://www.davisonconsultancy.co.uk
 

Why Project Management?

Project management is simply guiding a project from inception to successful completion, making coordinated use of processes and systems to guide and encourage people to successfully perform a project’s work.Management

Another approach to project management is to consider the three constraints as finance, time and people. Project Management is used to keep control over the project variables, and resolve issues in a timely manner. The key benefit is that project performance is observed and measured regularly to identify variances from the project management plan.

Project management is about creating an environment and conditions in which a defined goal or objective can be achieved in a controlled manner by a team of people. Project management is applicable in a wide range of business activities as it involves the application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques shaped by the specifications and requirements of particular projects. Project management is a way of thinking and behaving, rather than just a way of analyzing and presenting information.

Recruitment Agency with a difference

So what do you think of recruitment agencies?

Ok, Estate Agents and Solicitors fall into the same category, but are a necessary service that we must use. Therefore, I was pleasantly surprised to come across a recruitment agency that operates in a cost effective way, whilst actually doing what I think an agency should do, namely: get the right person as quickly as possible and only send good candidates, also, don’t charge a fortune for doing it.

right click is at the forefront of a new generation of recruitment businesses that utilise the internet to deliver high quality, high speed and highly cost effective recruitment services.

Have a look at this rapidly expanding recruitment agency, I think it will create quite a stir with the traditional agencies.

RightClick Recruitment

Rob

http://www.davisonconsultancy.co.uk

Businesses need money and …

Business Mentoring 

Starting or growing a business requires money, so a good Business Plan can help you gain that extra finance. However, once the funding is in place it is so easy to get carried away with that huge marketing spend, new office equipment and increasing the headcount.

Ensuring the money is put to good use, and more importantly the business is kept focused on it’s real goals and not get side tracked is of paramount importance. A lot of businesses do not only require extra finance, but some would benefit from business mentoring so that business improvement is sought and achieved far quicker than learning by mistakes.

Business coaching can be a useful way to have a sounding board for your ideas and clarify that strategy that gets dusted down now and then. By utilising a seasoned business professional who has started and grown businesses means you can learn from someone who knows what it’s like to manage that bottom line, personally.

So if you feel money isn’t everything that your business needs just now then consider a business review, it only takes a day and can be the best investment you make to maximising your business effectiveness.

Rob

http://www.davisonconsultancy.co.uk

Who moved my cheese?

I read one of my old books the other day that may be relevant to businesses that may have experienced a downturn.

For those who have not come across it, then I would recommend it as a good business read.

If you are interested the details are:

Who Moved My Cheese
Written by Dr Spencer Johnson
ISBN 9780091816971

SEO tip Blogrush

Have a look at registering your Blog with blogrush.com as it will improve your traffic ranking. It’s free to sign-up and the site is very easy to navigate and understand. .

Full non-technical instructions are available to help you install BlogRush into your own Blog.

Rob
Davison Consultancy

Adwords - Top Tips

Adwords needs careful selection of the keywords you are going to be using, be they individual words or phrases. Exact matches is always preferable but sometimes difficult to warrant paying a high PPC bid price.

Have a look at Web CEO tool, it’s a start and will guide you through how to research your words. If you fancy paying for the ‘knowledge’ then try wordtracker.

Always ensure your html filenames, page titles, page content, tags, Adword advert and Adwords all use the same keywords in order to maximise the impact. If the page position is less than 10, then up your price or try some other words.

Hope that helps to drive more traffic to your site.

Rob
Davison Consultancy

Useful SEO Links and website promotion information

I have compiled a list of useful links that provide SEO search engine optimisation and website promotion information, and products if appropriate.

The link is SEO Links

Let me know if you have come across any SEO, search engine optimisation or website promotion sites worthy of a mention.

Davison Consultancy

My SEO e-Guide

This SEO eBook is something I came across which covers search engine optimisation, search engine ranking and page ranking topics. So if you are unfamiliar with some of the terms used then this guide will help.

Download the My SEO e-Guide  PDF document