We hope you and your business have enjoyed 2016. Whilst New Year is a time to reflect on how lucky we are at present and the successes we’ve enjoyed so far, my mantra is: “how can we find a better way?” I’m always looking for ways to improve, streamline, optimise and get smarter. So what have we learnt from our A-Z of CRM blog post series this year that can shape practical and useful New…
Don’t you think business life is better united? Being on the same page as a client to help them achieve their goals through your services, being on a similar wave length to your team, sharing the same values as your business investors, mentors or partners, you name it, business, and life in general, is brighter and better united. We’re huge fans of leveraging neat technology and savvy online tools to enable business owners and…
Time’s pretty fickle isn’t it? When we have lots of it we love it but usually end up squandering it with a ‘I’ll do it tomorrow mentality.’ When time is of the essence and we have very little of it, we resent it and tend to leave an urgent task until the very last minute before a deadline. Poor time can’t win! Time is so tricky because we can’t control how fast passes but…
If you’ve stumbled across this or one of our recent blog posts and you’re a tad confused then you’ve come to the right place! Even better, if you’ve read a few of our posts and can see they’re connected by a theme that you can’t quite put your finger on, it’s because they are! We are currently producing a blog series called A-Z of CRMs, as CRM customisations are among what we do here…
People generally fall into two camps when it comes to organisation. They’re either very uber-organised or else completely scatterbrained, scraping through, meeting (or missing!) deadlines just in the nick of time. When it comes to whether we want to be organised we fall into one black- and-white camp: we all want to be organised. Why wouldn’t you? Being more organised= feeling being more prepared=feeling less nervous=being more confident in a meeting or presentation or working more…
How well does your company’s team gel? Take a moment to reflect on that question. If you think they get along fairly well, what about your wider team, beyond the immediate department you work in? Do they enjoy as smooth a relationship? If so, why not, do you reckon? Is it because they have different ways of doing things, different goals, different purposes? Companies where departments are segregated are missing a huge trick since…
We hope you’re having a great summer! Here at Creative Analysis we’re huge fans of how the right online tools and systems can enable savvy freelancers, entrepreneurs, business owners and their teams to be free to work from wherever they choose and to break free from the traditional- now outdated- 9-5 grind. We love how the right digital platforms can make hardworking people completely and utterly Location Independent. Being Location Independent comes in really…
Are you guilty of not keeping in touch with family friends, extended family, old colleagues, or school mates? We all love our family and friends but sometimes life gets busy and sadly touching base with them falls down our priority list. Occasionally we’re lucky enough to find friends who are understanding and we can easily pick up where we left off with them, even though it’s been years since we saw them and perhaps…
How often do you leave work and wish you’d been more productive that working day? For quite a few of us not getting through much of our ‘to-do’ list or feeling like we don’t achieved much day-to-day can bug us…a lot. Our new partner PandaDoc can help. The solution? Find a new system, a new way of operating. But with so many systems out there, what’s the right answer? We’d recommend PandaDoc. It’s their mission…
Dear Business Owner, As a business owner, like me, you would’ve had to have spent money to make money at some point. This includes investing in different marketing methods, to attract customers to balance your books. Marketing is all about communicating your business message- but how do you decide what the best way to communicate with your target audience is? There’s often a stereotype that older people prefer tradition, whilst young people have an…
