Company Connecting Blog

Last week Company Connecting provided information on companies registered between October 2014 and June 2017. The research established that only 11% of the registered companies were ‘real’ i.e. had a web presence. Almost 30% were already dissolved or dormant, and at least 20% were companies for...

Only 11% of Scottish IT and Telecoms companies registered between October 2014 and June 2017 are real i.e. those companies with a website. 

In its recent research Company Connecting noticed a surge in the creation of IT and Telecoms companies in the Companies House data, combined with a...

Over the past few months Company Connecting as reviewed its policies and procedures in line with the GDPR regulations which come into place later this month. This week we will be contacting all the registered Company Connecting users who have provided us with personal e-mail addresses.

If...

In the 11th of its Startup series, Company Connecting asked “When should you start thinking about social media". We received quite a response to the article. Several people wanted to get an understanding of what can be done with a tight budget and limited time.  This article provides a list of...

Over the past three years Company Connecting has researched thousands of IT and telecoms companies to create a comprehensive view of the tech industry. An integral part of  our work is ensuring that the company profiles are as up to date as possible. This is carried out via a combination of...

Company Connecting received several responses to a statistic we published on Linkedin on the  IT and telecoms companies in the Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) area. This inspired us to create a new extended infographic to provide  graphs, charts and statistics on the companies

What does silence mean to you and can you bear it?

Startup founders are ultra busy in the early days and bombarded with many activities, meetings, people, networking, selling, social media. Finding silence can help with putting things into perspective. The productivity of silence is the...

Are you a LinkyBrain? Based in North East Scotland - or Scotland?

LinkyBrains is a movement to connect people who think a bit differently. They may be misunderstood, frustrated and can appear abrupt or even rude at times. They have an ability to see or understand things – but when called...

Company Connecting recently reviewed its database of tech, IT and telecoms companies, along with companies formed in the past three years. There appeared to be a disproportionate number of companies working in ‘Digital Marketing’ which had been created or dissolved.

This inspired us to...

In this article, Janice Grant Shaw provides some insights into her experience with social media in the early stages of Company Connecting. She looks at where social media fits in during the early startup stage of a company.

The means of marketing a business has changed substantially over...