Posts Tagged ‘small business’

Free business book competition for our small business readers: Powerful Marketing on a Shoestring Budget

Thursday, November 11th, 2010

Our sixth book give away is ‘Powerful Marketing on a Shoestring Budget: For Small Businesses’ by chartered marketer and FMWF blogger Dee Blick.

Global Entrepreneurship Week is nearly here

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

Global Entrepreneurship will kick off on the 15th of November with thousands of events for businessowners all over the world.

His idea was rejected by the Dragons… Now James is toasting his £780,000 home

Monday, November 1st, 2010

There can be no greater vindication for an entrepreneur, when he finally reaches the level of success he has struggled to achieve, than to prove it to the world by upgrading to a more expensive home.

Double-dip recessions fears ease as manufacturing activity surges

Monday, November 1st, 2010

Manufacturing activity surged unexpectedly last month as output growth accelerated for the first time since March, easing double-dip recession fears, figures showed today.

SMEs: £800 bill to look at once-free IT register

Sunday, October 31st, 2010

Smaller firms are being forced to pay nearly £800 a year to use a central register detailing billions of pounds worth of technology contracts in local government.

Co-ops in fashion as others struggle

Sunday, October 31st, 2010

WITH independent shops, pubs and even banks battling to survive, co-operative ownership is proving popular.

SMEs face new accounting system

Saturday, October 30th, 2010

PLANS to push small and medium sized companies to adopt international accounting methods could cost business almost £80 million, but lead to simpler and cheaper annual accounts

Britain is going to pay a high price for globalisation

Wednesday, October 27th, 2010

The statutory working week, the minimum wage, the high cost of laying off or taking on labour, innumerable rules about health and safety, the extent of maternity/paternity pay and the attraction of suing for dismissal are all described as employment ‘safeguards’. But they raise the cost and the risk of venturing to enlarge any labour force.