Lauren goes into detail about her journey so far and where she see's herself a year from now. For help on setting up and developing your business, head over to our Start Up Zone.
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Jay Powrie of Dragon Spark Production speaks to Business Wales about his toughest challenge to date as a business owner and gives us his best marketing advice.
January has flown by! New projects, new clients and more than ever are coming to us for help with their social media marketing and content on their platfroms. Clients in Cardiff and Aberystwyth are beginning to see that telling a story and doing it through social media is opening new doors for them. 2017 is going to see more and more businesses launch new products and campaigns on social media first, just like John Lewis...
If you are looking for assistance with any aspect of the Procurement process, from assessing your suitability to tender, finding the right opportunity and the application process, to registering with Sell2Wales and making the most of what the site has to offer, than these new courses can help. The new courses are: Procurement: background and overview Procurement: considerations when finding opportunities Procurement: what are PQQ's and ITT's? Procurement: Tools, Tips and Techniques How to register...
Have you ever set targets for your business or had them set for you which either: You were motivated by to start off with but after a number of setbacks on the path to get them your enthusiasm for the goals was being drowned out by the fatigue; or No matter how hard you tried you couldn't quite get excited about achieving the goal? Yes we need targets. They focus our attention and our actions...
To put it simply, it’s daunting. The confusion of the legal aspects, the worry of whether or not you will succeed financially, and the sometimes overwhelming thought of ‘can I really do this?’ Starting up your own business is a difficult, blind journey into the unknown. But it’s one that you really should consider diving into. At this stage we’re small. Really, really small. As time of writing we currently have a mere 19 likes...
It may seem a distant memory now, but wasn’t the weather on the August Bank Holiday amazing?? Unbelievable....! I hope you had the chance to enjoy it. Good weather, summer hols, ice cream and bronzed faces are fun, enjoyable and magical times for family, loved ones and recharging your batteries. As the kids are now returning to school your thoughts will inevitably be turning to the months ahead and your business. A change in the...
If you’re running a business, you’ll need social media. But how do you make the most of the platforms out there, and use them to build contacts and sales? Here are our five top tips for getting social media to work for you rather than against you. Not Showing Up If you’re using social media to promote your business (and if you’re not, you should be), the cardinal sin is not actually turning up. If...
A Cinemagraph is a still image, with a small part moving or animated. They have been called "living images". The technique was first used in 2011 for news and fashion photographs, and is becoming more popular with the advent of autoplay on Facebook. They can be used on websites for eye-catching images. The technique involves using a short video sequence from which a still image is extracted. Or the still image is taken in hi-res...
