Welcome to the latest in our occasional series of entrepreneur interviews for The Small Business Blog. These short Q and A sessions highlight some of the most interesting entrepreneurial figures in the business world. Our newest interviewee is also our very first international one: Sharon Jones, co-founder of FundWell, an online technology platform which matches…
You would have thought that running a business is easy. I have something you want, I sell it to you and you pay me for it – that’s it, right? Wrong – there are so many other things to deal with apart from the ‘business deal’! These are the sort of things that make your…
Often when you buy products like software you are forced to compromise on the level of aftercare that you receive. It’s not like, for example, buying a table from a furniture outlet that has a defect – if this happened to you then you could just go back to the furniture store and talk to…
We are currently in the second day of the sixth annual Global Entrepreneurship Week and so far it really seems to be shaping up to be the most successful one yet. It is expected that around 7.5 million people are going to be getting involved with the events in 130 countries all across the world.…
We hear a lot of stories in the small business community about people having problems with some of their business software, particularly when it comes to CRM. The two names that are most commonly mentioned seem to be Salesforce and Netsuite. The main gripe is often with the large costs of using these systems to…
Often, the word ‘boundary’ has negative connotations, but in the business world, setting boundaries can make a big difference. In this article, NLP Master Trainer Ewan Mochrie discusses the importance of boundaries in business. Why is limit-setting important for business growth? A new business needs to be nurtured to maturity like a new-born baby or…
Last week there was some great news that supports the opinion that the UK economy is finally rebounding. Data released by ONS (the Office of National Statistics) shows that there are now more businesses in the UK than at any time since they changed the way it was calculated back in 2007. Image: City A.M.…
Welcome to the latest in an ongoing series of entrepreneur interviews for The Small Business Blog. These short Q and A sessions feature some of the most exciting entrepreneurial figures in the business world today. Our latest interviewee is London born-and-bred self-funded entrepreneur and dad of two, Devin Chawda. Why did you become an entrepreneur?…
As Facebook has grown, so have the opportunities and challenges for businesses to get in front of their ideal consumers. With over 800 million users worldwide, it may be the most highly trafficked social media site. Undoubtedly, businesses around the world are clamoring to make the most of Facebook’s ever-increasing popularity, but the very fact…
There is something Tony Robinson OBE has said to me over the years that has proven true for successfully starting and running your own business. He said ‘Focun widding cussmers ankajfleur iskin’ which translated means ‘Focus on winning customers and cash-flow is king’. Even I, a celebrity fashionista, best-selling author and investigative journalist, can sometimes…
