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Month June 2011

Top 5 Tips for Avoiding Small Business Procrastination

The weekly top 5 tips post is always full of helpful hints and advice for small, home and micro business owners. 1. Long To-Do lists can be depressing and make it difficult to get started. Arrange the list so that the quickest tasks are completed first and the list will get shorter. 2. Break large…

Sugar – Who needs him?

The man who apparently failed to recognize that we were in a recession, has now decreed that engineers can’t run successful businesses. What gets me, is not “Lord” Sugar, who in my opinion is well past his sell by date (lets face it anyone can make money out of a large real-estate portfolio), no it’s…

Pension – Strike – Micro Business

While many understand that we in the UK, after the reckless years under Labour, have to look at saving money and balancing the books, it seems that every-time this actually happens people threaten to go on strike. To me it seems unbelievable, that the same people (Labour) who, IMO, are largely responsible for the financial…

Top 5 Tips for Small Business Mobile Websites

The weekly top 5 tips post is always full of helpful hints and advice for small, home and micro business owners. 1. The number of people with smartphones is growing exponentially. Consumers increasingly expect to be able to access company websites from their mobile devices, so a mobile-friendly version is important. 2. You need to…

Cloud Based Accounting Software

Accounting is most certainly not the the most favorite entrepreneurial occupation – rightly so. Let’s face it accounting is all about the past, at a time when we all need to look to the future to navigate these perilous financial times. But, accounting software will help us to manage the past, improve our cash-flow and…

Just Don’t Quit!

I ran one of the largest ISPs in the 90’s and it was not always easy (the understatement of my life), we were growing so fast, that we never had any money, our cash-flow was catastrophic, always. During those years my CFO and I had a saying, “It’s going to be another interesting day!” –…

Micro Business vs Job

Job security is a thing of the past, no ifs & buts, it is. Why then are still so many hell bend on getting a job in a company? Here are a couple of things to consider when considering your future: ☺ Income Security: You lose your job, you lost it all. You lose a…

Top 5 Tips for Small Business Exporting

The weekly top 5 tips post is always full of helpful hints and advice for small, home and micro business owners. 1. For full-scale exporting of a product, extensive market research is essential before even considering it. The financial impact of exporting abroad should never be underestimated as it will put a great strain on…

When Passion Turns To Greed…

Business has one goal, to make money – that is the only reason anyone will start a business. There may be differences in terms of how much money and what the money is being used for, ie. social enterprise. “ GREED, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.~ Cyril Connolly Sometimes you…

Small Business Support For An Enterprising Nation

In the UK 500,000 new businesses start every year, these businesses are of vital importance to the British economy, the nation of enterprise. Supporting small business, in their entrepreneurial endeavors has to come high on anyone’s agenda. The UK, as an enterprising nation, small business support is the best way to reduce the five year…

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