SME Business News

On the day that the USA  elected it’s first black president, I have just a short post.
The headline grabber on BusinessWeek suggests that small business owners can learn from Barack Obama’s victory by following these three lessons for business.
1. Clear Vision
2. Clean execution
3. Friends in high places!
Now who do I know?

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A survey carried out on behalf of BT and Enterprise Nation reports that the number of small businesses being started from home have soared in the last twelve months, with start ups in the period up by 16%.
Home businesses in the UK are said to now number 2.5million, with many owners seeing no alternative than [...]

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The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has sent results to the Bank of England of a snap poll demonstrating the devastating impact of the credit crunch, and is calling on its Monetary Policy Committee to cut interest rates this Thursday.
Figures released today from the FSB poll reveal that a majority of small businesses have seen [...]

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In the midst of the doom and gloom of recession it is refreshing to hear that Barclays Bank are predicting a brighter short term future for SMEs in the UK.
Nic Bayley head of product for Barclays Local Business made the startlingly optimistic claim at the annual conference of the National Federation Of Enterprise Agencies.
“We believe [...]

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A report by pressure group The TaxPayers Alliance has kicked up a stink with members of the governments Regional Development Agencies (RDAs).
RDAs were set up around the UK in 1999, funded by the government to develop economic growth regionally.
The report claims that growth has actually slowed in most regions since the RDAs were introduced and unemployment [...]

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SME campaigner, Federation Of Small Businesses (FSB) has responded to the governments push to enable SMEs to win public contracts, by telling the Glover Review that it welcomes the target for small businesses to win  30% of public sector contracts.
FSB has however urged that the target is specifically aimed at the ‘micro end of the SME [...]

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Two SME campaigners have come together to offer some tips for small businesses to avoid the worst of the credit crunch.
Small businesses are being urged to follow five top tips to cope with the credit squeeze and protect their businesses as the economy slows.The Federation Of Small Businesses (FSB) and ASC Finance For Business [...]

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Accounting Software company Kashflow, recently surveyed Small Business owners to evaluate what they perceive as the major factors in growing a company from Small to Medium sized in business.
The research revealed these top five milestones that small business owners consider they have to reach before they can consider their business to have grown to Medium [...]

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