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Businesses need to be conscious of rising costs as they carry out their growth plans. Striking a balance between investment and prudent business remains crucial for business leaders in a constrained economic environment. While many are used to the challenge - it has been over five years since the...

Didn’t we read something about the paperless society some years ago? A funny thing seems to have happened on the way to the future. Most of us still rely on paper to a large degree and what small business can survive without a printer? Maybe we don’t use as much as we did a decade ago...

A news item on BBC Breakfast this am featured a couple of high streets - Swindon in Wiltshire and Wimbledon Common. It's probably not news to many of us but the traditional, independent high street retailer is fast becoming a shop of the past as supermarkets continue to embrace every product available...

Guest post from Robert Matthams, founder of www.shiply.com ] and recently named Shell Young Entrepreneur of the Year and BT Entrepreneur of the Year. The importance of technology to delivery companies cannot be understated. The days of paper proof of delivery and sign on the dotted line have been...

Are clouds on your company's horizon? If not, maybe there should be. No, we don't mean the nasty rainclouds that have dominated our economy for the past two years. We mean the clouds of the computing world, where your hardware and software reside ‘in the ether’. Well, actually, the...

Guest post from Maria Ross, founder and chief strategist of Red Slice a branding and marketing consultancy based in the US. She is the author of Branding Basics for Small Business: How to Create an Irresistible Brand on Any Budget available on Amazon.co.uk Giving back to the community and maintaining...

The Small Business Advisory Panel met last week to discuss the implications of the Government’s spending review on Small Businesses. Panellists included: Tanya Shirlow, Head of Small Business, Microsoft SMB UK Stephen Pegge, Communications Director, Lloyds TSB Commercial ...

Microsoft hosted the latest quarterly SME (small and medium-sized enterprises) Advisory Panel a couple of weeks ago, and the topic was – not unnaturally – the possible implications of the election on small businesses. Panellists included: Robert Epstein, Head of Small Business, Microsoft SMB...

Casting aside my Microsoft SB hat for a moment, like many voters I am currently undecided on how to vote. I’m obviously reading the press and all the relevant Small Business headlines but it’s difficult to distinguish between the main parties. So I’ve just tried out Vote Match on the Daily Telegraph...

Guest blog from Howard Graham, CEO and Founder of The Made Simple Group and member of the BBC’s Small Business Panel of Experts . All opinions stated are the author’s own. Perhaps it’s just me - but I seem to be getting a lot less junk mail through my letterbox. What was once a steady stream of...