The art of negotiation is a useful skill for all aspects of life, but especially as a home seller, this trait can save you thousands of dollars if you use it correctly. Most people mistakenly think that the negotiation process starts when the buyer makes an offer on the house. In reality you should have a strategy long before even the first offer comes across your desk.

If you want to sell a property fast but you’re not getting the number of offers that you thought you would. You may have a local market that has turned into a buyer’s market which is when there is a greater supply of houses then there is buyers. With a lot of houses on the market a buyer can take their pick of houses, so how do you make sure that they pick your house and not one of the other ones.

I share with you two strategies to marketing your small business. I picked these two strategies because of the offline marketing tactics I have been taught were not as effective as what I will be teaching today.

As the UK economy continues to recover and powers ever more ahead, one of the biggest employment areas is in engineering. With unemployment predicted to dip below 6.8 percent in 2014 from the current 4.6 percent – that’s 2.47 million people – the growing economy is adding many more engineering jobs.

2013 has been an eventful year for the engineering industry. As we emerged from a crippling global recession and started to build towards a brighter future there have been a number of landmarks along the way. Here are just a few of the highlights of the year.