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Challenges Faced by Small Businesses and Essential Tools to Overcome Them
As your small business experiences growth and expansion, it brings exciting opportunities and new horizons. However, with growth also come unique challenges that need careful navigation. In this article, we'll explore some of the common hurdles faced by expanding businesses and provide strategies to overcome them.
A Freelancer's Survival Kit: Must-Have Tools for Success in London
As a freelancer based in London, we understand that staying organized, efficient, and adaptable is essential for your success. We know that managing your workload and keeping up with the fast-paced city can be challenging.
The Benefits of Coworking Spaces for London Start-ups and Freelancers
In this blog post, we'll uncover how these collaborative environments offer cost savings, networking opportunities, and flexibility. Experience the benefits of Hotel Elephants Office Space, designed to cater to small teams with fully furnished units, high-speed wifi, and exclusive perks. Elevate your business with the power of collaboration!
Beginners Guide to Monetise Your Creative Work
For many creative individuals, turning their artistic passion into profit can be a challenging but rewarding endeavour. In this article, we will explore some of the key strategies that artists can use to turn their creative hobby into a profit.
5 ways you can make your creative business more sustainable
If you're a creative small business owner, you may be wondering how you can make your business more sustainable while still being innovative and creative. The good news is that there are plenty of sustainable practices that can be incorporated into creative businesses. Let's take a look at some of them:
How to apply for small business rates relief.
For many of our new members, it will be the first time they have dealt with business rates before. This is why we’ve put together this short guide about business rates and how to apply for small business rate relief.
How to find your creative spark in your research?
Being creative in the way you approach your research can be an excellent tool to develop innovative ideas and approaches to your work. Creative research can apply and be used by anyone from academic work at university to businesses researching the next big idea.
The Future of the Work Place: Flexible Working is it Here to Stay?
With the Covid 19 pandemic forcing many businesses to embrace remote working, has it changed the way we work for good? As many companies start moving back towards, we ask is flexible working here to stay?
How to Prioritise your Work
It’s a struggle we’ve all had, when your to-do list is longer than the hours in a day, learning how to prioritise your work is possible one of the most useful skills you can acquire. Why do we need to learn how to priorities work? With constant emails, demand for your time and juggling different projects, we can often become overwhelmed with the share number of tasks we need to complete. This can lead to us feeling stressed and overworked as we try to do everything.
Books to Help you Get Out of a Creative Rut
We’ve all been there when we hit a wall, where you just think “I’m out of ideas” or “I don’t feel inspired”! The pressure to constantly be creating something new can often compound leaving you in a rut. Therefore, some resources which can help kick-start these cogs moving again are always a welcome helping hand. Here are some of the books we think might help get you started again.