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For a lot of businesses, Christmas is the busiest and most time important event of the year, whether you’re a retail company or not. It is the time when consumers are out buying and preparing for the festivities. It is also a time when businesses don’t want to be…

Writing a Christmas card as a business, either to your employees or clients, can be trickier than you think – a short and simple message or a letter approach? It could be that you have been sending Christmas emails, but a card or even an eCard is…

When businesses consider going green, there can be all sorts of reasons they find not to do so. Cost, don’t know where to start, think it’s a PR stunt and so on. But that just misses the point. Businesses are now expected to make more of an effort to…

We know that Christmas can be a time of excess, where expenses tend to go much higher than any other month of the year. Of course, you don’t want to be seen as a Grinch by your staff or team members but you don’t want to throw money around…

Colourful decorations, Christmas music, and spicy cinnamon flavours are what await at Christmas markets across the world. But why not keep them going and sustainable? Christmas shopping doesn’t have to mean joylessly battling through department store crowds or trawling the Internet for bargains. You can visit some of the…

From large to small businesses, over the past decade attitudes to the environment and a company’s impact on it have changed dramatically. Your environmental impact is every bit as important as sales, so how do you improve it? Consumers want to choose companies that care about their carbon…

Ever wondered what the most common activities are doing to the environment? Now you can find out the carbon footprint of everyday tasks you take for granted. Whether we admit to it or are aware of it, each one of us has a carbon footprint, directly or indirectly. This can…

This year marks 170 years since Sir Henry Cole created the world’s first Christmas card. As recently as 2011, the Royal Mail still took delivery of more than 700 million paper festive greetings.

Communication is at the heart of human interaction and should be at the core of your business strategy, it can make or break a company. Being able to communicate effectively with your customers can lead to increased sales, repeat business via loyalty and referrals to potential new consumers. On the…

With Christmas just around the corner, you (like most other company owners or managers at this time of year) may well be thinking about the type of corporate Christmas cards you are going to be sending out to your clients, colleagues, suppliers and partners.