The benefits of using the LinkedIn Social Media Platform. LinkedIn has been around since 2003 and is well known as a professional networking media platform. The benefits of using LinkedIn are enormous when you have a LinkedIn profile. You can…
Events and Trade Shows are great for building brand awareness. It’s the perfect place for you to showcase your brand, your people, your products and your services – but it takes months of preparation! You need to plan the space…
Starting a new business is a challenge and so often an act of faith. A new business owner has the ambition, the vision, the ideas and the enthusiasm to take the plunge and go out on their own. The key…
No matter the reason, whether it’s moving to a new office, current lease expiring or relocating to a new city to run your business, the aim is to move with minimal disruptions to your operations. Here our quick guide to…
As an experienced HR consultant, I’m often asked for my tips on employing people within small businesses. Understandably, small business owners want to avoid the pitfalls along the way and ensure their staff are motivated and contributing fully to the…
Read our column from Uckfield Matters magazine here online... This month’s Uckfield Matters theme has got me thinking, do we need a ‘Women only’ networking event? Naturally, it’s not something that I could be involved in personally and while there…
If your 2019 plans include relocating a business, your priorities will be to minimise downtime and avoid any major impact on productivity. Here are our top tips for a smooth business relocation: Appoint a project manager - This might be…
I don’t know about you but with increasingly busy lives it’s difficult sometimes to be as ‘active’ as we all know we should be! But ‘active’ isn’t just about physical activity, good though that is! Here at the Chamber, we…
When you have enough reasons to do something, motivating yourself to do it is effortless. Bombarding your brain with reasons to act makes motivation easy and one powerful strategy is to read a book on a habit you want to…
It has been a real privilege to be able to help local businesses by offering the services of our conference room at our Uckfield Business Support Centre. Most recently we have hosted Uckfield Chamber of Commerce ‘Lunch and Learn’ and…
