Co-Operatives – What Are They, Why Start One And Who Benefits?
ShareCo-operatives are seeing resurgence in interest and offer an alternative to other business models. Essentially a co-operative is owned by all the members. Members are both the employees and employers. Each member has a share in the business. Co-operatives will often work because each member has a greater commitment to making it work than traditional [...]
Top Tips From Entrepreneur Ed Reeves
ShareEd Reeves is the founder of Moneypenny – an answering service with a difference! Based in Wrexham, North Wales, it turns over £7m per annum and has 250 staff. Says Ed “whatever business you do, make sure it is scalable. That is where everyone goes wrong. And stick to your convictions”. He also recommends recruiting [...]
Got A Sweet Tooth?
ShareIt was reported today that Hotel Chocolat, the upmarket chocolate retailer, has raised £3.7m from an innovative “chocolate bond” to help fund future business growth. This is how it works – customers invest in a 3 year bond in the business and in return they get paid in deliveries of chocolate over the bond term. [...]
Warren Buffett on the economy
ShareWarren Buffet has recommended an out-of-print book written by a little known government adviser on the collapse of Germany into hyperinflation in the 1920s. The book is called When Money Dies. Written by Adam Fergusson in 1975 but now being released by Old Street Publishing. When Money Dies describes the economic collapse in Germany after [...]
Business Mileage VAT Reclaim
SharePosted by: Paul Stanford Reclaiming VAT on your business mileage You must have been living in a deep underground cave for the past year if you haven’t noticed the soaring cost of fuel. Cleary this is something that will hurt any of us that are running small businesses and need to run vehicles for [...]
Small Business Website Marketing
SharePosted by: Paul Stanford Website Marketing I was party to a three way conversation earlier today between a “traditional” retailer and an internet marketeer. The conversation centred around websites and how they should be promoted. It was interesting to hear two completely opposing views. The traditional retailer was adamant that a website was of [...]
Top 10 Recruitment Mistakes
Share In order to locate suitable employees, you must focus on the particular characteristics and skills you are looking for. You also need to establish a plan in order to find the most suitable candidate. Unfortunately, many companies repeat the same mistakes over and over again when it comes to recruiting. This ends up costing [...]
Business – To Buy Or Not To Buy?
SharePosted by: Paul Stanford To Buy Or Not To Buy?.. When starting a new business, many people think of starting from scratch. There could be good reasons for this (for example it could be a completely new idea or product that hasn’t existed before) but more likely the new entrepreneur has not considered any [...]
Small Business Importing And Exporting
SharePosted by: Paul Stanford Importing and exporting In today’s business environment more and more small businesses are looking to export their products and services as well as importing goods and services typically to reach new markets and remain competitive. Perhaps you sell a product that is highly sensitive to the weather [...]
A Board Advertising – Good Or Bad?
SharePosted by: Paul Stanford A Board Advertising Many small businesses with a presence in or near the town centre need to make themselves “visible” to potential clients. One of the most cost effective ways of doing this is through the use of A Boards. They do work and that is one [...]
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