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Month August 2011

Top 5 Tips for Avoiding Small Business Legal Issues

The weekly top 5 tips post is always full of helpful hints and advice for small, home and micro business owners. 1. Make sure that you separate yourself from your business activity. Because a large number of small businesses operate as sole traders, their individual assets are not protected and would also be at risk…

WinWeb Introduces Personal Virtual Office Manager

Small business owners are often burdened and distracted from essential tasks (ie. getting new business, talking to clients) by business admin, online marketing and IT hassle in their office. This leads to very poor business performance and business failure. Today many virtual services and cloud software vendors aim to eliminate these dangers, but most of…

Must be good to be stupid to start a business.

“Are you stupid?” or “What are the chances of that happening?” – these are some of the common statements people make when confronted with business ideas of others. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Henry Ford, Richard Branson and many thousands more, they all must be stupid to think that their dream for their entrepreneurial future could…

Top 5 Tips for a Small Business Hiring Graduates

The weekly top 5 tips post is always full of helpful hints and advice for small, home and micro business owners. 1. With the job market still in a period of turmoil, it is more likely than ever that a small business will be able to attract some graduate talent. Graduates can help you to…

Top 5 Tips for Small Business Insurance

The weekly top 5 tips post is always full of helpful hints and advice for small, home and micro business owners. 1. Make sure that you entirely understand your business insurance needs before shopping around for a new policy. Conduct research or speak to a professional if you have any doubts. 2. There are useful…

Will your business insurance cover you in the event of a riot?

The recent riots, looting and arson attacks have badly affected one in ten retail businesses across England. Approximately 48,404 shops, restaurants pubs and clubs have been directly or indirectly affected over the past four days. Many have been looted, destroyed and some even burnt to the ground. Nick Starling, director of general insurance and health,…

Top 5 Tips for Online Freelancing

The weekly top 5 tips post is always full of helpful hints and advice for small, home and micro business owners. 1. As a freelancer it is essential to make the most of your time. Ultimately the onus to complete projects and meet deadlines will fall on you, so it makes sense that you should…

Big Business working with SMEs/SMBs

Over on my NASDAQ.com column I have just posted an article about how big business can work with SMEs and SMBs. All to often big businesses fail at the first hurdle to engage with small business – read on….

Small Business Cost Cutting:- Fire Non-Essential Staff

I think it is no great secret anymore that the world economy is going to take a “little” longer to recover, due in part to the incompetence of some of our beloved and distrusted politicians. What are you doing to tighten your “business” belt? As I have discussed before, changing as much of your fixed…

Top 5 Tips for Small Business Influence

The weekly top 5 tips post is always full of helpful hints and advice for small, home and micro business owners. 1. Building a powerful network of contacts is a major part of gaining influence in small business circles. You can then leverage your contacts within that network to call in favours or collaborate. 2.…

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