Dragons’ Den boost to entrepreneurship wears off
ShareA dramatic fall in the number of would be entrepreneurs has thrown in doubt the private sector’s capacity to drive the recovery in the economy. Only 3.8pc of the population expects to start a business in the next three years, compared with 5.9pc in 2004, a survey of 30,000 people in the UK, called the [...]
Body Shop to rival Avon and Ann Summers?
Share The Body Shop has announced plans to double the size of its Body Shop at Home division. It wants to recruit an extra 3,500 consultants. This is a great opportunity for stay-at-home mums to earn extra cash from home through parties and the like in a similar way to Avon and Ann Summers. Home consultants [...]
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 – Playing Music At Work – Are You Legal?
SharePosted by: Paul Stanford Playing Music At Work – Are You Legal? Many small businesses are unaware that they may be breaking the law when it comes to playing the radio at work. Did you realise that if for example you are hairdressers and you play the radio for some background music to [...]
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 [...]
The Purpose Of Work
Share Many people ask how to discover their life purpose, believing that when they find that, they will be able to find their ideal work. This is certainly the case, but no experience is wasted in life. While you are working on discovering your life purpose, what about learning the purpose of the work you [...]
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