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Thursday, November 05, 2009 10:43 AM

Free tickets for Business StartUp

Business StartUp takes place at Olympia, London 26-27 November. If you’re thinking about starting up a business or growing your existing business it could be worth a visit. Tickets are free, and you can order them here . Activities include the Midas Touch
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Monday, October 05, 2009 10:09 AM

The UK's top five most creative and unusual business ideas

You might be surprised at these.... (or maybe not!) According to a recent survey by ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants), the UK's top five most creative and unusual business ideas are: Dating service for the more mature person Pro-cycling
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009 12:02 PM

Profit up for home businesses by staycation spending

Guest post from Emma Jones, Founder of Enterprise Nation and author of ‘Spare Room Start Up - how to start a business from home'. Home businesses from a range of sectors have reported an increase in turnover and profit as holidaymakers choose the UK as
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009 12:51 PM

The Stelios Award for Disabled Entrepreneurs 2009

On the back of the Leonard Cheshire Disability's start-your-own business programme, and in conjunction with Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the serial entrepreneur best known for founding easyJet, entries are now open for the Stelios Award for Disabled Entrepreneurs
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Monday, July 13, 2009 4:01 PM

Growing optimism among small firms

The latest market report from the 10 small businesses the BBC has been following over the past few months reveals a growing optimism among small firms . No-one is denying the market is still difficult or that businesses are having to adapt and work harder
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009 2:47 PM

Swine flu warning to businesses

Without wishing to be in any way alarmist, swine flu is creeping its way across the country and, according to a story on the BBC website , the Federation of Small Businesses is warning that too few companies are making contingency plans against its spread.
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009 10:25 AM

Entrepreneur Doug Richard's business start-up top tips

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
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Friday, May 15, 2009 2:38 PM

100 awesome business blogs that are better than an MBA

Since this Microsoft Small Business blog is featured in the 100 awesome business blogs we had to mention it! (At no 13 btw, though I don't believe they're ranked, just listed.) At a glance they seem to be primarly US-oriented, but still worth a look if
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Thursday, April 23, 2009 12:13 PM

Budget implications for small businesses: round-up

Reactions to the budget implications for small businesses are somewhat mixed - here's a round-up of what industry bodies are saying. Overall the budget does not appear to have been particularly well received although there are some nuggets for small businesses.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 2:18 PM

Budget summary at a glance

Quick post today - need to digest the budget properly before we can analyse the pros and cons for small businesses. Take a look a the BBC summary here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8011882.stm Drinkers and smokers are hard hit again - an obvious
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Monday, April 20, 2009 10:34 AM

Advice for coping in a recession

The first glimmerings of positive economic news are beginning to appear - the number of mortgages being granted is up, the BBC is quoting a report saying the UK economy will grow in 2010 (although elsewhere it's quoting 2012), and it looks as though local
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Monday, March 30, 2009 9:46 AM

Three ways to source new work

Guest post from Emma Jones, founder of the home business website Enterprise Nation ( http://www.enterprisenation.com/ ) and author of ‘Spare Room Start Up - how to start a business from home'. This is a perfect time to spruce up your business development
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Friday, March 06, 2009 9:54 AM

Sticks and stones

The awful and embarrassing names people call their children was a story floating around the press last week. Justin Case, Barb Dwyer and Stan Still were favourites, as were Pearl Button, Jo King, Barry Cade, Carrie Oakey, Priti Manek and Tim Burr. If
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Tuesday, March 03, 2009 10:29 AM

The devasting effects of a fire

I’ve been banging on about IT security, worms and viruses, business continuity (aka disaster recovery) plans and the like, for some time now, and guess what – I’m going to post another one today, although this one is of a more personal nature. Small Business
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Monday, February 23, 2009 11:24 AM

Are banks doing enough to help small businesses?

Shamelessly copied from the BBC website is the following extract from the PR on Panorama tonight (BBC 1 at 8.30pm). This has to be essential viewing for anyone managing a small business. With more than 4.5 million small businesses in the UK providing
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