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Branding and Brand Consistency: Why is it Important?
Branding and brand consistency is not just about choosing the right logo and other graphic elements to represent your business. It goes along with customer experience and the way you handle both expected and unexpected circumstances that involve your brand. To put it...
How my photos have had over 3 MILLION views on Google Maps
Written by Louisa Stewart Let’s start with a statement – I am not by any means a professional photographer. I pick up a camera or phone and point, sometimes with a little nuance, but this is not my chosen path in life. I know the value of photographs to enhance and...
Maximising Reporting Tools: How to get the information your business needs
As small business owners, we carry the world (i.e. our businesses), on our shoulders. Decisions that will help our businesses stay productive and profitable are critical to ensure sustainability. But to make good decisions, we need to have good information, right? And...
Process stakeholders: who are they and how to identify them
In designing a business process, it is vital to consider other stakeholders who will be impacted or have an impact during the course or as a result of its implementation. It may be easy to focus specifically on the individuals or groups who are directly involved in...
How good data can become a game-changer to your business
In the 1970’s humankind entered what’s now become known as the information age, this era marked a worldwide shift towards an economy based on information technology. Fast forward to 2020 and life on planet earth looks pretty different. These days everything is online,...
Protect your data effectively with Lastpass
What do you mean we shouldn't write our passwords down? A password manager securely keeps track of all your login credentials, so you won't have to remember each of them. More than just making life easier for you, password managers help keep your data protected by...
Successfully manage project assumptions – a how to guide
“Assumptions are the mother of all mistakes” Eugene Lewis With sayings like this, it’s no wonder that the mere mention of the word ASSUMPTION has you running for the hills. Whether in our personal lives or at work, we’ve all experienced the undesirable consequence...
How we transitioned from GSuite to Office365, and what went wrong
You may think it is easy to move between systems when you’ve made the decision to switch. In 2007 you may have been correct, but in 2020 it’s challenging to change your mind once you’re fully working with a particular system. Blue Ninja moved from GSuite to Office365...
The value of gaining experience through internships – written by Marina Bendelow
As a student finishing my first year studying International Business in Glasgow, I was very excited when I saw the opportunity to work with a small business in my hometown of Leiden on an internship basis. I was keen to get out the house, use my extended summer...
Established business processes can inspire confidence
We may not realise it, but processes exist everywhere; they are all around us. There is a process involved in everything that we do: from the simplest of tasks, like preparing a hot cup of coffee, to the more complicated ones, such as preparing financial reports or...