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7 tips for optimising your business blog content
Content is essential to building brand in today’s commercial landscape. If you want to get noticed you need to be building relationships with people by giving them a flavour for what it is you stand for. From social media posts to email marketing campaigns, business...
How to transform your start-up into a scale-up business
Starting a business is a big step, but growing a business is a whole new challenge It takes a lot of courage to launch into a new business venture, but setting up your small business is only half the battle. Now it’s time to take your business from strength to...
60% Increase in Functions Add Fire to the Flames of Recovery
One of North Tyneside’s most well-known sports centres has seen a 60% increase in event bookings for October and November, signalling a post-covid recovery at the not-for-profit Blue Flames community sporting club is underway. Blue Flames, located on a 15-acre site on...
Spend less, earn more: 5 money-saving ideas for your business
From tech investments to staff training, running a business can be costly, but there are steps you can take to rein in your spending Taking the plunge and starting your own business takes a lot of guts and a lot of planning. Every business owner wants their business...
5 tips for coming up with fresh business ideas
Still waiting for that lightbulb moment to strike? Here’s how to hurry it along Many of us dream of being our own boss, and it’s often said that true success is just one great idea away. But even though inspiration can strike at any time, when it comes to creating...
Business Is Blooming for Hauticulture
Two Wallsend entrepreneurs have swapped looming redundancy into a blooming new business after spotting a gap in the market for a floral designer serving the commercial and domestic market for artificial flowers. Steven Ward, 29, and partner Sean Baker, 31, both from...
Here’s how to practice inclusivity in your business
It should go without saying that diversity is welcome in any business. In recent years, equality, inclusivity and diversity have all become increasingly talked about in business circles as organisations look to challenge the ways they have worked in the past and seek...
5 things that every new business owner should learn right now
Starting a business is one of life’s biggest learning curves. If you have aspirations to run your own organisation, the sooner you can learn those core business lessons, the better. Following on from one of the most challenging years in recent history – for both...
Darlington Jewellery Designer Launches Jini Ord Jewellery
A Darlington-based jewellery designer is making the most of a longer stay in the UK by turning her 40+ years of experience in the jewellery trade into a new business, thanks to help from TEDCO Business Support. Wendy Edmonson (60) set up Jini Ord after working in the...
Family Launch New Business to inspire New Little Wood Walkers
An enterprising family have applied their love of the outdoors to a new business venture to inspire new story and play adventures in the natural environment, with help from the North Tyneside Business Factory. David Gray (36) from Forest Hall has developed a range of...