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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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Monday, September 14, 2009 2:30 PM

Microsoft UK launches 'Britain Works'

Recognising that business needs to do all it can to help people during this recession, Microsoft UK has launched a campaign to help 500,000 people into work by 2012. Through a combination of a new national apprenticeship scheme, targeted skills and employability
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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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Monday, June 22, 2009 10:48 AM

Is business the secret to a long life?

Guest post from Emma Jone, Founder of Enterprise Nation and author of ‘Spare Room Start Up - how to start a business from home'. Many studies are carried out on the number of people starting businesses and the success of those ventures but few researchers
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Friday, June 19, 2009 10:35 AM

National Enterprise Network launches Home Enterprise Week 6-10 July

More than 60% of small businesses are now started from home and an estimated 8 million people will earn an income from home this year alone. In recognition of this growing business trend, NFEA - the national enterprise network, has launched the first
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Thursday, June 18, 2009 10:11 AM

BT Business Experience 2009 - register now

BT Business is hosting a free week-long BT Business Experience event from 29th June to 3rd July 2009 at The Farmiloe, London, EC1M 4AY. An all-new event taking place in central London, it has been specifically created to show businesses how the very latest
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009 10:12 AM

Beating the recession: selling home-made goods on the web

Interesting story on the BBC site today on how people are making extra money in the recession by selling homemade items on the internet . Here's a brief extract: "A boom in cottage industries is being fuelled by people using their hobbies to make money,
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009 12:09 PM

The Pitch: Is your business Britain's best?

Small Business is enjoying tweeting and reading about small business in the UK. One tweet that caught my eye this morning was all about The Pitch - I've copied this directly from their website. "The search is on to find the UK's most exciting and innovative
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Monday, April 27, 2009 11:18 AM

Why niche business is good business

Guest blog from Emma Jones, Founder of Enterprise Nation and author of ‘Spare Room Start Up - how to start a business from home' A niche business In best-selling book ‘The Long Tail' author Chris Anderson says the future of business does not lie in blockbuster
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Monday, March 16, 2009 10:18 AM

Why starting a business in a recession isn't foolish

Guest post from BusinessWings , a business resource for budding entrepreneurs, and where, in their own words, you can "find useful business articles providing advice, tips and guides, and read recent posts on real life business issues such as running
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 2:04 PM

Do what you do best and outsource the rest

From guest blogger Emma Jones Never has this piece of advice been more relevant. You went into business to do the things you most enjoy. When you enjoy something, you're good at it and that, in turn, attracts loyal customers. Keep hold of those customers
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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, February 10, 2009 1:31 PM

The top 10 predictions for home enterprise in 2009: guest blogger Emma Jones

On Thursday 5 February key figures from the worlds of business, politics and the media came together to hear Enterprise Nation's Top 10 predictions for 2009. The predictions show the significant impact home enterprise will have on the economy, environment
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