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Month June 2010

Reducing Overheads Can Save A Business

Running a successful small business is a matter of controlling cash-flow. In the simplest form this means having more money coming in than is going out. The money that leaves a small business is often taken up with overheads that are necessary for the day to day running of the business. But if these overheads…

Top 5 Serious Start-Up Mistakes

The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. 1. Losing focus on your original business goals and starting to drift off from your intended track. 2. Underestimating the importance of sales and being unable to monetise your great ideas. 3. Not investing enough…

WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Student Aid

The winner of WinWeb’s Pitch of the Week competition this week is Student Aid, who have targeted the student demographic with their Student Aid boxes with fantastic results. Read more about Student Aid here and if you would like to enter WinWeb’s Pitch of the Week competition visit our Facebook page for more information –…

Be Positive and Be Successful

I’m aware life is not always as simplistic as the title of this post suggests, but how can people expect to succeed if they have a negative attitude towards everything? We all encounter people on a daily basis who live life with a “can’t do” ethic, and while a “can do” attitude doesn’t guarantee success,…

Top 5 Biz-to-Biz Sales Tips

The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. 1. Try to learn a bit about the industry that your prospective business customer works in so you don’t look out of your depth. 2. Listen carefully to what your B2B clients require.  If you…

WinWeb Pitch of the Week -Environmentally Friendly Solutions

The winner of WinWeb’s Pitch of the Week competition this week is Gordon Shaw from Environmentally Friendly Solutions, designers of a disposable ash tray system developed to free our streets of nuisance cigarette waste. Read more about Environmentally Friendly Solutions here and if you would like to enter WinWeb’s Pitch of the Week competition visit…

A Personal Invitation to the Launch of The Business Incubation Centre, Luton

Knowing where to begin when starting your business is one of the most difficult things for a would-be entrepreneur. That is why I want to invite you to the launch of Incubator Units for Start-Up Businesses at The Business Competitiveness Centre. Incubator Units are purposefully designed to help start-up companies survive during the period that…

Let Go A Little and Help Your Business

All of us are only human; and that includes you and I. This is true however much, as small business owners, we may want to think that we are super-human and can do it all, the practicality is that we simply can’t. And, moreover, if we do try to do it all it can end…

Top 5 Tips for Running a Successful Business Website

The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. 1. Navigation of the site must be absolutely simple.  If you can’t get it that way yourself, hire a designer or use a template. 2. Share information about your business and about you – your…

WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Hire My Parents

WinWeb’s Pitch of the Week competition has joint winners this week, the first of which is Steve Pritchard, from Hire My Parents. Hire My Parents is a website designed to help parents to return to work, with the flexibility to help them to be there for their family when they are needed. Read more about…

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