SME Business News

Choose good key words, it is worth spending time on this, as this is the main criteria used when others are searching the web. It is worth considering words or phrases that others would use to find your product, so ask friends or relatives what terms they would use, and try to incorporate them into […]

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Peter Jones, businessman and tv Dragons Den judge, has teamed up with the government to launch a network of ‘enterprise academies’ across the UK.
The purpose of the academies will be to identify the next generation of entrepreneurs. The first of the institutions will be launched in September 2009, and will be in the South East […]

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British Chamber of Commerce director general, David Frost is concerned at the lack of skills among the young people seeking employment in the UK. The Chamber reports that skill levels and attitude to work, are so poor that firms across the country are increasingly employing eastern European migrants to fill jobs rather than local unemployed […]

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The first major victim of the UK’s post Christmas spending slowdown, on the high street, is the former shoe giant Dolcis. More than 1200 jobs are at risk after the company went into administration today.
Dolcis was purchased last year by Scottish retail entrepreneur John Kinnaird, in a £2.7 million deal, backed by Epic Structured Finance, the […]

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