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Month March 2012

Entries 10 Total

Confidentiality in Invoice Finance

Mar 29, ’12 2:38 PM

What’s your business’ most valuable asset? Throwing this question at several entrepreneurs, you would expect to get responses such as equipment, plant & machinery and freehold premises. However, the largest asset for many businesses, especially SMEs, is often their unpaid sales ledger invoices. In this economic climate, your sales ledger is a financial resource that…

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We may have got the T shirt but it’s still to be earned.

Mar 28, ’12 7:32 PM

We don’t know what we don’t know I always chuckle to myself when big companies that sponsor awards to start up and existing small business give, as part of the prize, mentoring or advice from a senior executive in their company. Perhaps it is no laughing matter. Firstly, it’s arrogant to assume that starting and…

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Social Bizzle – Facebook Help for Small Business

Mar 28, ’12 6:50 PM

At the SME Blog we are always keen to promote great ideas that help small businesses. That’s why we want to tell our readers all about this great idea from the folks at Social Bizzle. Social Bizzle is doing something very unique and beneficial for UK small businesses in 2012 that we here really approve…

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Yes, Ex-Minister,#MicroBizMatters!

Mar 28, ’12 10:55 AM

Question Time Just before I flew home to Canada I was asked by my inept agent, Tony Robinson OBE, to chair a ‘Question Time’ type debate at a large micro business conference in his home town of Scarborough. Micro businesses (0-9 employees) are, apparently, quite important to the UK. There are 4.5 million of them…

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Top 5 Tips for Businesses on a Bootstrap Budget

Mar 26, ’12 1:59 PM

Top 5 Tips posts from the SME Blog are always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. 1. If you don’t have the space to put an office in your own home, consider sharing one. Other local potential business owners are likely to be in the same situation as you…

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Focus more of your marketing on customer retention

Mar 21, ’12 8:27 PM

In my previous post (The Questions I Would Ask If I Were Marketing Your Business – Comment and Part 1) I posed two questions: How much of your current business comes from existing clients and how much comes from new clients? How much of your marketing efforts are focused on generating new clients and how…

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The Real Deal – Don’t Accept Anything Less

Mar 19, ’12 8:55 PM

Entrepreneur Conferences need a business health warning. November and March are always the biggest months for Enterprise and Entrepreneurship conferences. Last week, I was lucky enough to be in Liverpool for the Global Entrepreneurship Congress. Last year it was in Dubai and next year it’s in Rio de Janeiro so we were lucky to have…

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Top 5 Tips for Small Business Profit Investment

Mar 19, ’12 5:43 PM

Top 5 Tips posts from the SME Blog are always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. 1. Try to make as many useful professional business contacts as possible in your local area, even if it means attending lot’s of tradeshows / exhibitions or networking events. You want your business…

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Top 5 Tips for Small Business Work-Life Balance

Mar 12, ’12 1:54 PM

Top 5 Tips posts from the SME Blog are always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. 1. Make sure that you are able to prioritise your workload in order to tackle it in the most efficient way possible. Your entire schedule should be based around ‘most important tasks first’…

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The Questions I Would Ask If I Were Marketing Your Business – Comment and Part 1

Mar 12, ’12 10:01 AM

About a month ago I read the following post: The Questions I Would Ask If I Were Marketing Your Business on the MarketingProfs site. It’s a pretty interesting article and worth a read, particularly where it pushes for more data and real examples to be used to back up all the advice and information that…

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