How to take payments online
The following is a guest post from Lucy Langdon who works for Merchant Account Forum, a website that helps visitors find the right merchant account for their business. If you’re thinking of setting up on online presence for your business, or already have one and want to start accepting payments, you’ll need to spend a [...]
It’s not all bad news for the economy
If you’re tired of the recent doom and gloom in the news about how the economy is in tatters and all small business owners may as well give up then we have some good news. eBay have just reported a record breaking week for trade on the site with sales on the UK site’s busiest [...]
Survey finds record numbers of entrepreneurs in UK universities
It turns out that students aren’t just a mob that descend on London to cause chaos and destruction. All sensible human beings realised this but unfortunately the media of late has sought to destroy the little remaining credibility that higher education students had. The recent protests against the rise in tuition fees turned sour after [...]
Alton Towers to recruit lookalike business legends
A recent poll by the Alton Towers Resort revealed that a staggering 90% of people think Apprentice star Lord Alan Sugar is the most inspirational business figure in the UK, distantly followed by entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson and Acadia Group founder Sir Philip Green (with 5% of the votes each). Inspired by the results, the [...]
Debt recovery using Twitter – what’s that all about?
Yesterday saw the news that SMEs will now be able to collect their outstanding debts using Twitter. It is a well known fact that business owners here in the UK have to fight tooth and nail to get invoices paid on time. This slow paying culture (particularly prevalent in situations where a smaller business is [...]
Is your business ready for Christmas?
This might sound like a ridiculous question given that we are only half way through September and the *summer* weather has only just passed but big businesses have been preparing for months and with good reason – sales soar, consumers loosen their purse strings and some businesses generate a large percentage of their income in [...]
Global Entrepreneurship Week kicks off today
Make a job, don’t take a job. As you may be aware, Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) gets started today with 40,000 events in 100 different countries taking place between 15th and 21st November. Make a job, don’t take a job is the message behind the global event, which is being part funded in the UK [...]
How does a ‘passion’ help a new business?
The following is a guest post from Craig Wareham, the CEO and founder of Augmentra, his company’s product ViewRanger helps casual hill workers find their way and enables search and rescue teams to do their crucial work. We have also interviewed Craig previously – read it here Long nights at work and days away from [...]
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