Category: Scaling Up Your Solo Business

The British Library have announced a special evening event at the start of Global entrepreneurship Week which will give businesses the opportunity to question some of the most successful and influential people in British business today.

With 1,100 British businesses collapsing every day and banks still not altogether lending, surely the key opportunity for business growth is The Cloud. Does the Cloud really have a silver lining, or could it rain all over the people it professes to help?

The energy giant E.ON have launched a new offer for small and medium sized business customers who take an electricity contract with them.

Do you understand what your corporate culture is and how to apply it when you are considering looking to hire new staff to ensure that your candidates fit your cultural?

Facebook made a splash last week when it announced a plan to offer £20 million in free advertising to small businesses starting in January. The company says the move will allow small businesses and entrepreneurs to test the waters of social media advertising—and simultaneously helps Facebook usher in a new wave of loyal advertisers it hopes will stick around for the long haul.

Most businesses like to think that they operate in an open and supportive fashion, where ideas are exchanged freely and everyone knows where they fit into the business.

I am sure that when customers notice you have won an award for your business or some aspect of it they probably think that magic awards people go around selecting good businesses and handing out awards – if only that were the case!

They don’t often realise that you have actually chosen to enter that award, worked hard on the entry and then managed to win.

Entering awards can, in fact, be a very time consuming process. Is it really worth it?

Long range weather forecasts are notoriously difficult to get right. Nevertheless, when recent reports suggest we might have snow as early as October this year (just to top off a lovely summer), it’s time to start thinking about it.

Designing a new website or revamping your existing one is an exercise that most organisations should really be looking to undertake every two to three years. Trends and styles on the web change year-on-year and, in the case of a revamp, if you wait much longer than that, your website can end up looking dated and stale says Kirk Potter, C2 Software’s Research and Development Director

John Treace, a specialist who has taken part in many business turnarounds in his career, has, time and again, noticed the same problems, regardless of whether the reason for the turnaround was a relatively minor situation or a reorganization after bankruptcy.

Many local SMEs in the United Kingdom find it difficult to do business with those of companies and business firms that belong to the Third World countries because of many known and unknown factors, Faizan Usmani explains.

Every business, large or small, needs a customer relationship management (CRM) application. If you are a small or medium-sized business, you might think it’s just enough to use an Excel spread sheet or other desktop application to help you keep track. But as this information is recorded, it can also become fragmented–stored in a variety of places.

BT Business has launched a finance scheme offering start-ups the chance to lease up to £15,000 worth of technology and telecommunications solutions.

Nectar Business, the UK’s leading business loyalty programme, is offering one UK company the chance to win a business makeover, including a two-hour consultation with leading UK business woman and star of BBC 1’s ‘The Apprentice’, Karren Brady.

Graduates call for more information about career opportunities with SMEs, reports a new study by Graduate Prospects.