Category Business Trends

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Stand out from your competitors and make 2014 the year that you start harnessing the power of blogging

Nov 18, ’13 4:27 PM

Recently, I was trawling through my Evernote store of articles when I came across a Social Media Examiner article from a few months ago called: Blogging a Top Focus for Marketers and Other Trends Shown in New Research. Before I go on, I must say that I use Evernote to ‘clip’ and store articles that,…

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Local Currency for the High Street

Aug 29, ’13 4:55 PM
Local Currency for the High Street

You might not be aware of this, but the residents of Bristol have actually had their very own small business currency for almost a year now. The Bristol Pound is the first independent city-wide currency of its kind and is now accepted as a form of payment by over 600 businesses in the region. The…

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Pay-as-you-go Pricing

Aug 28, ’13 1:26 PM
Pay-as-you-go Pricing

This is an interesting piece on the BBC Business News website today about the increasing number of startups opting for the pay-as-you-go business model to offer their products more like a service than a physical item. Research from the Future Foundation showed that 70% of people will actively avoid products and services that tie them…

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My holiday confessions

Aug 16, ’13 4:36 PM
My holiday confessions

In the post earlier I talked about holidays, but neglected to mention what I personally favour. I was recently interviewed for MyTravelMoney about this blog and my holiday activities. If you want to find out more about what I do when I’m on a (working) holiday, jump over to their site.

(via MyTravelMoney)

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Is your holiday a working holiday?

Aug 16, ’13 12:52 PM
Is your holiday a working holiday?

For many sole traders and entrepreneurs in micro businesses who read this blog, a holiday is not quite the same for them as their friends who work in a 9-5 office environment. Often by necessity, a self-employed person’s idea of a holiday has to involve work in some capacity. Even when they go away, there…

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Entrepreneurship is in fashion

May 27, ’13 10:31 PM
Entrepreneurship is in fashion

It may have all started with Dragon’s Den, but entrepreneurship competitions have never been as popular as they are now. Why do so many large companies and universities now run their own versions of these competitions and why do we love them so much? The answer to the second part of that question probably lies…

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Investing in Nigeria- the new face of Interpreneurship

Apr 29, ’13 2:36 PM
Investing in Nigeria- the new face of Interpreneurship

If you haven’t been in the West African airspace recently, you may not know of the ecstatic new buzz of the town- it’s got everyone talking and investors listening. It’s the catchy innovations of Nigeria’s finest interpreneurs. Nigeria in the past decade or two has gradually been losing its predominance as an investment hub due…

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Remote Working: Yes, No or Maybe?

Apr 3, ’13 9:45 AM
Remote Working: Yes, No or Maybe?

Most bosses have a strong opinion about whether or not they want their staff to be able to work from home or not. If you were Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer, you would be firmly on the “no” side of the debate so that you would have greater hands-on control over your workforce. However if you…

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How do you keep your business fresh?

Sep 29, ’12 12:51 PM

Be disruptive not desperate ‘I’ll do it’. That’s the response you get from Tony Robinson OBE’s answer-phone. It doesn’t surprise me that he’s desperate for work – he can’t do anything. As a literary agent, to yours truly, he’s been as successful as my goldfish. His long suffering wife, Eileen, tells me that he is…

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Are UK politicians missing an opportunity to turn RBS/Natwest into the sort of bank that works for its customers?

Jul 11, ’12 2:06 PM

On Monday, Ed Miliband made a speech about banking at the Co-operative Bank in London. In the speech he made a couple of comments that caught my eye (Source: BBC): Mr Miliband told an audience of financiers it was time to move from “casino” to “stewardship” banking. Mr Miliband said the country had endured a…

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