It seems that sunny summer days of July were not only good news for our suntans in the UK, but they also meant a very decent spell for the High Street too. The British Retail Consortium (BRC) said that sales were up by 2.2% on July 2012, fuelled mainly by the rush to buy summer…
Band leader of the Enterprise Rockers and longtime collaborator for The Small Business Blog, the inimitable Tony Robinson OBE, is doing his best to keep micro businesses rocking. He recently attended an awards dinner for the International Association of Book-keepers at the House of Commons and made a speech at the event too. The 150…
Perhaps giving some merit to the saying “95% of statistics are made up”, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have today revised their economic figures for the first quarter of 2012. You may remember that this was thought to be the second consecutive period of contraction and so it was officially considered another recession. This…
Perhaps you will be surprised by this news item – tax evasion in the UK is now at the lowest level in five years. Despite tax evasion being a constant ‘go to’ topic for the news channels, the worst is apparently already behind us in terms of companies trying to pull one over on the…
If you own a small or micro business in the UK, a new Government initiative wants to you to adopt electronic invoicing as part of your business practices. After excellent results experimenting with e-Invoicing in a number of local authorities and NHS trusts, the Government plans to roll out electronic invoicing across the board for…
Apparently if your employees are not working from home, you must expect them to be “homing at work”. A staggering 93% of people surveyed are now taking care of personal and family matters during the workday direct from the office. The number of people who are running personal errands during the workday has increased by…
Even though there was some good news for the economy today with an increase in the amount of employment growth and a marginal decline in unemployment that suggests that the downturn at the beginning of 2013 may have just been a blip, there is increasing evidence that people who are currently in work are accepting…
Head Enterprise Rocker and TSBB regular Tony Robinson OBE is featured along with the Enterprise Rockers in ten pages of the latest issue of Start Your Business magazine. Find out what Tony has to say about all things micro business by picking up a copy from your local WH Smiths (and then paying for it,…
Worrying news for anyone in the UK as two influential think tanks believe that austerity will be still be a big issue, not just for the elections in 2015, but all the way through until 2020. The Chancellor originally said he would be able to balance the budget within four years, but that figure has…
After a revision of figures for April and a smaller than expected gain in May, economists are speculating that the recovery of the US market is starting to slow. The private sector employment increase in April was revised down from 119,000 to 113,000 and in May US businesses added 135,000 new jobs which was some…
