Last night was the second episode of Mary Queen of the High Street but as Clare Rayner has revealed in her TV review for BusinessZone, not everything in this Margate-based episode happened as it was portrayed on Channel 4. The program (which has prompted a complaint to OFCOM from local business owners) was set in…
It’s getting hot in the Enterprise Rockers kitchen Last Friday I had an article published in Business Zone online where I dared to criticise the House of Commons for showing itself up on Budget Day as being clueless about small businesses. It is the ‘Most Read’ and ‘Most Commented’ article on Business Zone and the…
Recently, I was going through my Evernote archives of articles that I had ‘clipped’ over the last month and that I thought would be good feedstock for blog posts. As I was going through all of the articles, I came across Most small business owners have skipped paychecks from Yahoo! Small Business Advisor. When I…
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…
I saw a couple of news stories today that were reporting on new figures that have come out of Experian on the number of business insolvencies in different parts of the UK. The first (Huge rise in insolvencies, but London fares better than rest of the UK) was from Londonlovesbusiness.com and looks at the November…
I am sure that you saw the news yesterday where they were reporting the latest UK economic growth figures. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the UK economy grew by 0.5% in the third quarter of 2011, compared with 0.1% growth in the previous quarter. That may seem like things are getting better…
Many of our clients currently find the going tough, although I happy to report that they are surviving better than the average micro business out there. You may ask why is that? Answer: “Business Bootstrapping!” Here are a couple of techniques on how to use business bootstrapping to survive a recession: 1. Cutting Overheads –…
