Category The Week Ender

Is Santa Claus real?

Is Santa Claus real?

This week – when not providing round the clock support – my team at WinWeb have been investigating whether or not Father Christmas actually exists. Their findings may shock you. Follow the link below to visit the WinWeb website and a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2014, to all the readers of The…

Bizarre Business

Bizarre Business

Think that your business idea is too “out there” to be successful? You might want to think again. History has shown us that it is possible to be a success even if people initially dismiss your idea as something that is wacky. Even great ideas like Twitter were by no means surefire successes. Who would…

Client Personality Calculator

Client Personality Calculator

Here is some interactive fun for the weekend. If you work as a freelancer or contractor, have you ever wondered how your personality is compatible with (or conflicts with) your clients? The folks at Hiscox have developed a cool app that allows you to answer some questions about your personality and the personality of your…

Infographic: Monsterpreneurship

Infographic: Monsterpreneurship

Time for a bit of Friday fun before the weekend! Entrepreneurs come in all shapes and sizes. Do you think that any characteristics of your personality resemble some of these “monsterpreneurs“? Perhaps you are like the “Chatti” and have great communication skills or maybe you are more of a “Massodermis” who has seen it all…

WinWeb Hubs are coming to a town near you

WinWeb Hubs are coming to a town near you

I’m delighted to announce the launch of the very first WinWeb Hub in Letchworth, Hertfordshire on 1st August. This will be the first of many so don’t worry if you can’t pop down to see us, there should be one near you fairly soon! Meet other entrepreneurs to collaborate with – find out more –

(via WinWeb Business Blog)

Twitter on the prowl or “How I lost 20,000 followers in a week”

Twitter on the prowl or “How I lost 20,000 followers in a week”

I don’t check my followers on Twitter very regularly but I’ve noticed that at some point between Easter Monday and this afternoon on Friday, I have lost nearly 20,000 of them. But far from being annoyed, I’m actually glad. Twenty thousand is a massive amount of people and you might think I would be angry…

Work Perspective

My favorite YouTube Video Business Video for this week by Geoff Burch:

The Week Ender: Credit Crunch – See It Coming?

Credit Crunch, the new scare word of our times. But what does it mean for your business? How can you minimise the effects of it on your business? In the final analysis the effects are financial, your cash flow is going to stop you will run out of money – that is going to be…

The Week Ender: Greedy Bankers And Your Small Business.

I am – and others – are getting more and more communications from small business and start-up business, like SOHO-, SME, SMB-, Micro-, Lifestyle-, Home-, DIY-, Hobby-, Boomer- or Personal business, like professional, contractors, freelancer, self-employed, sole-trader and virtual assistants, about how worried they are about the credit crunch. At the same time unemployment figures…

The Week Ender: Dragons Den or How Not To Invest In Micro Businesses!

Kate Walsh of The Sunday Times wrote a piece last weekend on how the Dragons – who ever came up with this name (?) – had made a promise of investment to those HungryHouse entrepreneurs and how they did not get the promised investment. Of cause it is clear to me that there will be…

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