Advice on growing your small and medium sized business, SME, in the UK. Hiring and managing staff and finance plus marketing all on one website
Facebook made a splash last week when it announced a plan to offer £20 million in free advertising to small businesses starting in January. The company says the move will allow small businesses and entrepreneurs to test the waters of social media advertising—and simultaneously helps Facebook usher in a new wave of loyal advertisers it hopes will stick around for the long haul.
Most businesses like to think that they operate in an open and supportive fashion, where ideas are exchanged freely and everyone knows where they fit into the business.
I am sure that when customers notice you have won an award for your business or some aspect of it they probably think that magic awards people go around selecting good businesses and handing out awards – if only that were the case!
They don’t often realise that you have actually chosen to enter that award, worked hard on the entry and then managed to win.
Entering awards can, in fact, be a very time consuming process. Is it really worth it?
A baby’s potty which doesn’t spill, a digital passport to help online consumers prove their identity and a teddy aimed at improving children’s behaviour are among the small companies competing for the last slot in a competition with £50,000 worth of business support up for grabs.
How to deliver results for your business. There are six steps you need to take, this week we look at the last step, number six – review your progress regularly.
Recently, I have shifted the focus of this blog series away from my personal perspective on cloud computing in order to give some of our customers the chance to present their views on the technology.
Global small business trading experts Alibaba.com will be bringing unique insights and expertise to Global Entrepreneurship Week after becoming Gold Sponsor of the international trade theme of the week.
Long range weather forecasts are notoriously difficult to get right. Nevertheless, when recent reports suggest we might have snow as early as October this year (just to top off a lovely summer), it’s time to start thinking about it.
Mike and Catharine Chalton of Home Instead Senior Care in the Wirral were last night revealed as the 2011 bfa HSBC Franchisees of the Year, supported by Express Newspapers.
The word Mumpreneur has finally achieved the recognition it deserves after being entered into the Collins English Dictionary.
The future of our economy depends on the development of entrepreneurial skills within our schoolchildren today. I think our education system could do so much more to promote entrepreneurship to young people from an early age. From the time they can read and write, I think we need to give young people the opportunity to learn, test and develop the skills required to survive in business.
Recent research has identified that over half of UK fashion SMEs believe British celebrity style icons such as Kate Middleton are driving demand for British fashion overseas.
IBM has opened its registration process for this years SmartCamp, the exclusive global event aimed at identifying early stage entrepreneurs who are developing business ventures that align with IBM’s Smarter Planet vision.
Entrepreneurs were hailed as the “lifeblood of Britain’s economy” by the Business Secretary at an event to celebrate the best of UK enterprise.
Designing a new website or revamping your existing one is an exercise that most organisations should really be looking to undertake every two to three years. Trends and styles on the web change year-on-year and, in the case of a revamp, if you wait much longer than that, your website can end up looking dated and stale says Kirk Potter, C2 Software’s Research and Development Director
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