• Business

    Customer Loyalty

    With the Retail industry in recovery, building customer loyalty has never been so important. With money still tight, building customer loyalty is the only proven way to compete with rivals without having to forfeit revenue. Loyalty to a business or brand results in customers willing to put up with a…

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    How to get away with fraudulent sick days

    *** Warning this is NOT ADVICE only humour *** Fraudulent sick days are essential in any job you hate. Check the small print in your contract to find out how many paid sick days you get a year. I asked in my interview. It didn’t go down well. Throw a…

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    How to get away with calamitous mistakes

    **** Warning this is not advice and is purely for entertainment purposes only **** If you’re not making mistakes, you’re not learning. If that’s true I must be a genius. My former employer lent me a brand new car for the weekend to learn about. I didn’t learn a thing…

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    How to use your Manager’s jargon against him

      Whilst working in sales I have been subjected to the worst examples of Management speak as they try to threaten and cajole me to make them more money. If you cut a Sales Manager he would emphatic adjectives and meaningless sound-bites. Sales Managers are the pimps of the office…

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    Behind the Brand: Hoopermarket

    We all saw Grace Jones doing her thing with a hula hoop last year whilst performing… Right? Well we have had the pleasure of speaking to a hula hoop genius! She is the one and only Marawa Amazing!! Yes she is as amazing as her name, with abs as “hard…