There are a number of factors to take into consideration when setting up a laptop for your small business, with the specifications of the device just the tip of the iceberg. Here are some tips to help you set up an efficient computing system in your home office. Desktop computer vs. laptop Laptops can be…
For parents that work at home, the summer holidays present a whole new set of challenges that have to be met. The giant six week break is brilliant for your kids, but what about you as a freelancer or home-based entrepreneur? Although people might say it’s great that you don’t need to pay for childcare,…
The great thing about the internet is that it makes almost everything easier for businesses. It was of course possible to run a business from home before the internet – but it is nowhere near as simple and widespread as it is today. Home businesses are a great way for women that want to stay…
There are so many great benefits to working from home, especially if you are running a one-man (or woman) business all by yourself. Working from home is particularly suited to professions like consulting. By cutting out the waste of operating your own office in the city you perhaps lose some of the prestige, but it…
When I am not blogging, I am writing or editing copy for clients. I have exactly eight hours in which to get this work done. That’s a fair amount of time, isn’t it? Well, four of those hours are between 8am and 12pm while my four-year-old is at nursery. (I have tried working while she…
Not long ago it was significantly more costly to set up a small business. Advances in resources for working from home, such as high speed broadband among others have played a huge part in the changes. Factors such as lower priced technology and the increasingly cheap and more flexible options offered by storage companies also…
I went to a Kleinwort Benson Entrepreneur Forum last night and invariably cloud computing came up as a discussion point. On the way home it got me thinking about what makes my customers special, is it all about cloud computing, do they get it or is it even important to them? We recently had looked…
After five and a half years writing articles about small business issues on this blog, I am going to follow many of my fellow bloggers and open my blog permanently up to a select group of interesting and relevant authors for my readership. In the next few weeks I will start introducing new authors with…
The weekly top 5 tips post is always full of helpful hints and advice for small, home and micro business owners. 1. Make sure that you entirely understand your business insurance needs before shopping around for a new policy. Conduct research or speak to a professional if you have any doubts. 2. There are useful…
Over on my NASDAQ.com column I have just posted an article about how big business can work with SMEs and SMBs. All to often big businesses fail at the first hurdle to engage with small business – read on….
