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TIPS FOR SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS
How to help your business succeed
The UK’s most innovative firms share their business secrets
If you're one of the entreneurial new business being set up in Britain every day then crack on! But in all the excitement, don't forget that at the end of the day you need to take your brilliant idea out into the big wide world and, most important of all, it ought to be making you some money.
Orange has teamed up with some of the UK’s most exciting business innovators and leaders to create a new GUIDE FOR BUSINESS. The guide will help you master the art of innovation, featuring the likes of LinkedIn and The British Library through to small nimble firms like Naked Wines, all contributing their secret tip to this guide.
Tips in the guide include:
- A full bodied business model can never disappoint. For startups to succeed against established companies, it's vital to offer customers and suppliers something better than the status quo - the basis for which needs a sound business model. Rowan Gormley, CEO, Naked Wines
- Quickly find out if your idea is unique or not. You’ve come up with a brilliant idea, which could make you millions. Before you spend a lot of time and money on developing your ground-breaking new product, it is vital to find out whether it is unique and innovative and can be protected. Steve van Dulken, information expert, British Library Business & IP Centre
- Let your customers drive your innovation Innovation is central to all business growth. Always try and build new ideas around your customers and any problems they have. Anthony Keyworth, B2B Strategy, planning & products director, Everything Everywhere
- Put time aside for creativity Dedicate two hours every Friday afternoon to free thinking. Everyone downs tools on their normal work and takes time to think about new ideas or concepts. They can then spend this time to develop them. Jim Shaikh, founder and CEO, yoomi
Hear the experts share their secrets, then download the GUIDE FOR BUSINESS for loads more useful stuff:
How to help your business succeed
The UK’s most innovative firms share their business secrets
If you're one of the entreneurial new business being set up in Britain every day then crack on! But in all the excitement, don't forget that at the end of the day you need to take your brilliant idea out into the big wide world and, most important of all, it ought to be making you some money.
Orange has teamed up with some of the UK’s most exciting business innovators and leaders to create a new GUIDE FOR BUSINESS. The guide will help you master the art of innovation, featuring the likes of LinkedIn and The British Library through to small nimble firms like Naked Wines, all contributing their secret tip to this guide.
Tips in the guide include:
- A full bodied business model can never disappoint. For startups to succeed against established companies, it's vital to offer customers and suppliers something better than the status quo - the basis for which needs a sound business model. Rowan Gormley, CEO, Naked Wines
- Quickly find out if your idea is unique or not. You’ve come up with a brilliant idea, which could make you millions. Before you spend a lot of time and money on developing your ground-breaking new product, it is vital to find out whether it is unique and innovative and can be protected. Steve van Dulken, information expert, British Library Business & IP Centre
- Let your customers drive your innovation Innovation is central to all business growth. Always try and build new ideas around your customers and any problems they have. Anthony Keyworth, B2B Strategy, planning & products director, Everything Everywhere
- Put time aside for creativity Dedicate two hours every Friday afternoon to free thinking. Everyone downs tools on their normal work and takes time to think about new ideas or concepts. They can then spend this time to develop them. Jim Shaikh, founder and CEO, yoomi
Hear the experts share their secrets, then download the GUIDE FOR BUSINESS for loads more useful stuff:
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