July, 2009

From next week your mobile phone number is no longer private. You - and your children - can be cold-called at any time and subjected to any number of unsolicited calls. The company offering this service is called 118800 and numbers in their database are collected from market research companies, from...

Guest post from Emma Jones, founder of Enterprise Nation and author of ‘Spare Room Start Up - how to start a business from home'. Online spending is growing rapidly in the UK. E-commerce in 2009 will be worth over £20bn and, experts say, by 2013, online spending will make up for 10% of total retail...

Ex- Dragon's Den panel member and Doug Richard recently held a seminar at the British Library in London for all aspiring entrepreneurs, offering his six top start-up tips . Here's a very brief summary of the start-up tips he discussed - it's well worth reading the full story because he offers pertinent...

Guest post from Emma Jones, Founder of Enterprise Nation and author of ‘Spare Room Start Up - how to start a business from home'. Without a sale we're not in business and ongoing sales will spur the business to grow. Emma Jones offers five steps on how to make a sale and keep the cash flowing. ...

The SME Advisory Panel met for the fourth and final time last week to discuss the state of the UK economy and the impact on small and medium-sized enterprises. The panel's focus was to gather opinion on the state of the economy and focus on the Government's Digital Britain report and how broadband bandwidth...