The New Business Diary: Setting Out
Jeremy Hurst co-founded web development and design agency Slightly Different, which has grown to employ 15 people in two locations. Now, 13 years later, Jeremy is again tapping into his entrepreneurial...
View ArticleReducing Owner Dependency
Early on, some business owners often find themselves with a good problem – that their business has become successful enough that they can no longer be the only person behind it. This article from Fresh...
View ArticleGrow Your Business with Online Outsourcing
Online outsourcing is a fast-growing trend around the world that entrepreneurs and business owners are embracing to grow their companies. Hiring virtual freelancers is allowing these businesses to...
View ArticleThe Need to Adapt to Your Customers
Taking it back to basics, customers are everything. Every business works hard to identify and win customers, but once you have won them, the truly hard part is keeping them. The businesses that do the...
View ArticleThe New Business Diary: Elevator Pitch
In the second installment chronicling his journey of starting a new business, Jeremy covers the importance of getting the message right. Confident in the knowledge that the legal company registration...
View ArticleGrowing a Business in Challenging Times?
Yes, it’s possible. Some companies even thrive in challenging times, for a host of reasons, and surprise even themselves with their success. And in many cases, this kind of growth is helped along by...
View ArticleThe New Business Diary: A Trip to The Bank
In the third installment chronicling his journey of starting a new business, Jeremy tackles what is often the most important steps for any new business – talking to the bank. Unless you plan to barter...
View ArticleStarting a Business in a Recession – Tips and Ideas
While there are certainly a host of challenges to starting a business (at any given time), there can be benefits to starting a small business in a recession. FreshBusinessThinking.com offers this...
View ArticleHow to Start Up with Limited Funds
Lace Llanora is Community Manager at The Wholesale Forums (TWF), the UK’s leading B2B networking community & advice forum for wholesalers, distributors, importers, drop-shippers and retailers. Dan...
View ArticleThe New Business Diary: When to Tackle the Essentials
In the fourth installment chronicling his journey of starting a new business, Jeremy shares his approach to getting started and when he feels is the right time to take care of certain essentials. But...
View ArticleWinners of The Queen’s Awards Announced
Linda Stephens, The Secretary of The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise, joins the world of blogging this week at http://blogs.bis.gov.uk/queensawards. She congratulates the winners of this year’s awards,...
View ArticleCyber Attacks on Small Businesses Increase
Cyber security isn’t something that only large companies need to worry about anymore. In fact, research commissioned by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) shows that since last...
View ArticleYour Business Questions Answered
Beginning Monday 29 April, Sue Hayes, Managing Director at Barclays Business gives you the opportunity to connect with Farida Gibbs, the multi award-winning CEO of Gibbs S3, Europe’s fastest growing...
View ArticleThe New Business Diary: When to Tackle The Essentials Pt 2
In the fifth installment chronicling his journey of starting a new business, Jeremy continues with the theme of when to take care of certain essentials. So, back to those essentials that I was talking...
View ArticleBusiness in You – Mentoring month
This month sees mentoring as the theme of the Government’s Business in You campaign. With all of the benefits it has to offer small businesses and those thinking about starting up, mentoring is...
View ArticleFour Considerations for your first Office search
An office search is a somewhat lengthy but should ultimately be a rewarding process for a small business. Few things make you feel more like you’ve arrived as a business than moving into that first...
View ArticlePrime Minister’s Enterprise Advisor Lord Young publishes his report on...
In his second report to the Prime Minister -‘Growing Your Business’ – Lord Young highlights the increasing importance that micro businesses – those which have less than 10 employees – have on the...
View ArticleTurn Your Business Idea Into Reality
Martin Turner started developing FreeIndex.co.uk - a Free UK Business Directory in his garden shed in 2003. Ten years later the site has well over a million members and is highly profitable. Martin had...
View ArticleThe value of business coaching and mentoring
Catrin MacDonnell, Director, Papadeli www.papdeli.co.uk As a business coach, mentor and company director, I know the value of advice and mentoring for a business. For the past week I have been...
View ArticleNew Business Diary – Customer Management
In the seventh installment chronicling his journey of starting a new business, Jeremy focuses on customer management. Looking after your clients is key to any business, no matter what sector you’re...
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