Asset track­ing is very use­ful but the thing that you need to get your head is asset man­age­ment as it is this that every com­pany needs to do.

So what is asset track­ing? Asset track­ing is actu­ally more soft­ware that helps out the com­pa­nies using it, basi­cally it will track the assets so it is impor­tant for both big and small com­pa­nies. Read the rest of this entry

There has never been so many peo­ple tak­ing the plunge and set­ting up home-based busi­nesses than there are right now. A large num­ber of the peo­ple who work from home choose to go it alone and set up their own enter­prise, often mak­ing their money via the inter­net. As with any type of busi­ness there are issues to over­come before they can be suc­cess­ful and peo­ple who work from home often quote the same issues time and again. Below is a closer look at some of the most com­mon prob­lems reported by busi­ness owners.

Lack of Respect. Unfor­tu­nately, some of the more tra­di­tional com­pa­nies and man­agers out there don’t appre­ci­ate that peo­ple can run a per­fectly viable busi­ness from home, and not every­one needs an office as a base. With this in mind, try­ing to build up con­tacts and win busi­ness can be dif­fi­cult for some home-based busi­nesses as they are not taken seri­ously and some­times other com­pa­nies are not happy send­ing doc­u­ments or prod­ucts to home addresses.

Meet­ing Con­tacts & Clients. For a great many B2B com­pa­nies, meet­ing clients face to face is very impor­tant part of what they do. This is obvi­ously not always easy if your office is your liv­ing room for exam­ple as con­duct­ing meet­ings at home does not always give the best first impres­sion. To avoid this, more home based busi­nesses are con­duct­ing their meet­ings and cor­po­rate hos­pi­tal­ity at exter­nal loca­tions. For exam­ple, they might arrange a Hen­ley Regatta hos­pi­tal­ity day to pitch to a client on neu­tral territory.

Mix­ing Work and Leisure. Peo­ple who run home busi­nesses often men­tion that one of the hard­est things to get right is try­ing to seg­re­gate free time and work­ing. This takes a lit­tle get­ting used to but can cause prob­lems with fam­ily life and stress if a clear struc­ture is not put in place between time com­mit­ted to the busi­ness and time allo­cated to relax­ing and spend­ing time with loved ones.

For Chel­tenham hos­pi­tal­ity days, visit TT

It is dif­fi­cult to believe with my cur­rent work­ing lifestyle of work­ing for 8 hours a day, that I was once work­ing a secu­rity guard. I have to stress that the job was tem­po­rary whilst I was study­ing, but none-the-less it was a real job, in many real situations.

My main claim to fame was being an offi­cial secu­rity guard dur­ing the Party Polit­i­cal con­fer­ence of the Labour Party in 2006. Read the rest of this entry