SME Business News

The chief executive of internet marketing company Bigmouthmedia, Steve Leach, will be the key speaker at the Growing Your Own Business Exhibition and Conference, to be held at Olympia, London, on April 4th.
Leach was recently announced as the International Entrepreneur Of The Year at the European Business Awards in Paris, a title he added to his [...]

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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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A report earlier this year by Cranfield School of Management, analysing SMEs attitude to the internet, showed encouraging results with 84% of small business owners having a website and 97% having an e mail account.
This is extremely good news on the face of it, more business is being done on the internet and SMEs should [...]

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Specialist insurers Hiscox, and brokers Allison & Partners, have this week launched a partnership aimed specifically at offering insurance to small businesses and SMEs.
The partnership will go under the banner of INSPIRE and will specialise in professional insurances for UK and European small and medium size businesses.
The company will offer a range of business and [...]

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Post Office owners in some parts of the country have received a shot in the arm from local County Councils. Portsmouth councillors have become the latest local authority to throw a potential lifeline to local Post Offices, faced with the threat of closure.
Gerald Vernon-Jackson, leader of Portsmouth council has backed ideas put forward by Essex [...]

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The first Budget speech presented by new Chancellor Alistair Darling, was generally received pretty well by the small business community.
There were no real shocks to be had, after a bevy of blunders earlier in the year by the Chancellor over various tax reforms.
Some of the things that were particularly welcoming news for small businesses are [...]

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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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Last week I posted a report that suggested that new business owners were choosing to take advice from banks and accountants rather than use the Governments Business Link scheme.
In a report today from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) it appears that most small business owners have lost any confidence that they had in the [...]

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The Institute of credit management have today unveiled a league table that charts how long it takes for every UK PLC to pay suppliers.
For SMEs, this is great news as late payment by large companies is often damaging to the smaller business that relies on regular cash flow. The government talked a lot of hot air [...]

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The Government backed business start up scheme, Business Link, has come under fire in a report commissioned by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform.
The report which polled 10,000 small businesses, found that only 5% of new business starters chose to use Business Link for advice and assistance. 16% of those polled chose to [...]

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