Category SOHO/SMB/SME/Micro

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Cloud computing, your business and your customers – the four things you need to know

Jul 2, ’12 11:22 AM

Many of you will know that the founder of this blog Stefan Töpfer, founded and is steadily building, Winweb, a cloud computing firm. I have known Stefan for a while now after I interviewed him for a book, Rare Business (you can buy a copy here) that I wrote in 2010. Since then I have…

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A People List – the secret of your biz success

Jun 9, ’12 11:03 AM

Don’t believe all you read There is a better way to start up success than the business planning process. A lot of the same ‘must dos’, processes, are quoted by entrepreneurship academics, management gurus, glampreneurs and politicians as being needed for you to start and run your own business successfully. Training and supporting prospective entrepreneurs…

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Is Your Accountant A Bean Counting Historian?

Apr 24, ’12 6:50 AM

These days we hear much about business mentoring and business consultants and how important it all is to the survival of all SMEs/SMBs. I can’t help but wonder where it all went wrong? Business has always been surrounded by advisors, who could have helped, their accountants. Why this need for all this mentoring and consulting?…

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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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Building better relations with your customers starts at the end

Nov 18, ’11 12:11 PM

Today, I want to tell you a personal story of doing new things, taking risks, being innovative and being willing to fail in the quest to create something of value for my business, the people that I know, the small business community and my customers. View the story “RARE Forum, The Drill Hall, London 3rd…

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Small Business Sales Performance – Q1/2011

May 4, ’11 11:02 AM

The Open University just published their Quarterly Survey of Small Business in Britain and I want to share one graph with you here. As you can see micro and small business are suffering in this economic climate more than the mid-size and large businesses – why do you think that is? This graph has been…

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Lifestyle Business and Success

Oct 6, ’10 7:30 AM

We often speak about how to grow you business, how to be more successful, how to expand your business, increase sales and drive your business forward. This obsession with growth, however, is not every business owner’s primary aim, and nor should it be. The measurement of business success is often cloudy; people quote a massive…

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9-5 or 5-9? Does It Really Matter?

Aug 4, ’10 7:30 AM

Entrepreneurship and small business have been making news recently; with banks being tackled to lend more to small businesses, and television shows such as Dragons’ Den dividing the nation over the way small businesses are portrayed and helped. My views on such television programmes are one for another day, but for now all this has…

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WinWeb’s One-Stop-Shop Business Services For Freelancers, Home Business & Small Office.

Jun 10, ’09 12:46 PM

So far we have provided tools, like our OnlineOffice, to help our clients to solve their small business problems, now we actually solve these problems for our clients in an integrated way, leaving them to explore their entrepreneurial vision and look after their business, not their admin and IT. I am very happy to announce…

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Effective Use Of Technology Better Than Any Tax Break For Small Business.

Feb 3, ’09 6:36 PM

Roger Trapp of The Independent wrote about how effective use of technology (IT) can be more useful to small businesses than any tax break or incentive by government. In his piece he writes about WinWeb’s OnlineOffice – software and business services to start and run a small business form home or an office – as…

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