by Michelle | Jan 12, 2014 | Building a business, Business Owners, Business Start-up, Business Success, Do what you're great at, Entrepreneurs, Freeing up time, Outsourced Admin, Phone Answering, Serviced Office, Women Business Owners
It’s often at this point in the year, when you start seeing blogs, news stories, etc popping up on business trends for 2014 or business lessons from 2013. Now of course it’s important to keep a watching eye on trends that might impact your business. However, contrary...
by Michelle | Oct 22, 2013 | Building a business, Business Owners, Business Success, Serviced Office, Small Business
Strong relationships are the fuel that feeds the success of any business, even more so if you have a small business. And whilst that might seem obvious, so many business owners get caught up in the details of their products or services and forget how critical it is to...
by Michelle | Jul 2, 2013 | Building a business, Business Owners, Business Start-up, Business Success, Customer Experience, Do what you're great at, Entrepreneurs, Great Service, Outsourced Admin, Serviced Office, Small Business, Women Business Owners
In the 14 years since I started SOI, I’ve had the very great privilege of getting to know a great many business owners and watch them develop and grow their businesses a step at a time. We’ve seen so many of those businesses flourish and grow. Generally, when we’ve...
by Michelle | May 13, 2013 | Building a business, Business Start-up, Entrepreneurs, Serviced Office, Small Business, Women Business Owners
If you’re a business owner who’s either in or been through the start-up phase, you’ll know that whilst there are benefits of working from home, there are also downsides to working from home too. After the euphoria of not having to commute, wake up early, or even get...
by Michelle | Sep 20, 2012 | Building a business, Business Start-up, Outsourced Admin, Serviced Office, Small Business, Women Business Owners
Someone once said the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, or now. The same can be said for starting, building or growing a business. it’s easy to bemoan that you should have done x or y last week, last month or ten years ago and hindsight has always been a...