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Month January 2008

Book Review: A Bit on the Side by Jasmine Birtles

By accident I stumbled across this book in a second hand book shop and I have to say how ever owned this book before has little or no entrepreneurial spirit for giving it away. This book is backed with ideas for home business and other micro businesses. To be precise it has 500 ideas on…

Finally back in business.

After upgrading to Apple Mac OS 10.5 also known as Leopard, I had all kinds of software issues – most of all with my desktop blogging software. I tried several vendors, most of them with serious issues. But luckily after a complete new install of my ecto software (still in beta) it now seems to…

Micro Business, Recession and Exporting.

The last couple of days you could follow what can only be described as a panic on the world stock markets. The markets tumbled between five to ten per cent or even more. The trigger for this is the mortgage crisis in the US and the UK. One further problem our countries face are unprecedented…

Q&A: What do you think the key factors are for small business failure in the UK?

I believe that many factors contribute to small business failure. Indeed I believe that business failure is part of eventually becoming successful in business. The key for me is to make sure you don’t lose everything when the business fails. So bootstrapping is absolute essential, don’t spend money you do not have, don’t borrow from banks,…

The Week Ender: Never Throw Good Money After Bad Money!

Sometimes the best small business lessons can be learned in the media. Here in the UK we have one of those lessons happening right now: Northern Rock! One of the UK’s embattled mortgage lenders, Northern Rock got in to trouble and what should have been resolved in private has turned into the biggest economical and…

Are You Dreaming About Your Small Business?

According to a Staples, the office supply people, survey of 300 small business owners, 51% dream about their business. Seventy per cent of these “dream-workers” reported that they get ideas and find solutions to their small business problems, while dreaming. Dreams – alpha brainwaves – can allow us to learn while we sleep. This is…

Watering Holes For Your Small Business!

With all the bad news for small business around I have found a solution to ALL your small business problems. When I say I have found …., I mean I have read about it in the Sunday FT. Woods Bagot, an architecture firm in London, reports a new trend in office refits – a threefold…

Late Payment Problem For Small Business Growth to £18.6bn!

A report by the Bankers Automated Clearing Services (Bacs) found that the late payment burden on UK small business and start-up business, like SOHO-, SME, SMB-, Micro-, Lifestyle-, Home-, DIY-, Hobby-, Boomer- or Personal business, like professional, contractors, freelancer, self-employed, sole-trader and virtual assistants, has risen £2.6bn in the past 12 month to an staggering…

Introducing :- The Home Business Archive

You must be getting bored with reading my blog, my ranting on about outsourcing, cost-contol, OnlineOffice, bootstrapping, work-life balance and so on. To solve this problem for you, I thought I will now and then introduce a new blog to you. To make things as painless as possible for me, I will have the owners…

Decline of Small Business Sector in the UK!

In a report, due to be published next month, from the European School of Management – ESM, it is reported that there has been a marked decline in small business activity in the the UK under Gordon Brown. In the last decade when most peoples idea of small business centered around reality shows, small business…

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