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Posted by Alex Bellinger on 16th April 2008.
‘Going solo’ - two little words which inspire excitement and fear in equal measure among most people who’ve ever thought seriously about quitting employment and becoming self-employed.
Whether you’re a freelancer, consultant or nascent small business owner your early days can very often feel like you’ve jumped out of the frying pan into a very hot [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 31st March 2008.
Brace yourselves folks, Unified Communications is coming your way. Major software and hardware suppliers are teaming up to make sure that people can reach each other more or less instantly, regardless of what device they’re using or where they are physically.
Effective communication between people means that work can be accelerated and collaboration facilitated. Taking the [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 17th March 2008.
Last week the free Metro newspaper carried a front-page chart of carbon emissions by country. It looked like a chance to take a pop at the Chinese and the Americans who top the league of polluters by pumping out around four times as much CO2 as their nearest ‘competitor’ in these dismal stakes, Russia.
It occurred [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 17th September 2007.
How do you keep up with what’s going on in the world? Apart from reading and listening to SmallBizPod’s offerings, that is. A regular newspaper, The Economist, Real Business, Radio 4, tv news? Lots of different sources compete for your attention and there are only so many hours in the day.
One answer might be to [...]
Posted by Alex Bellinger on 22nd June 2007.
By 2012 5.5 million people in the UK will be working from home, according to the latest research from the Future Laboratory, commissioned by Microsoft.
A big number for sure, but only a relatively small proportion of the 91% interviewed who said they’d rather escape the office to work from home, or perhaps outdoors.
Outdoors working is [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 11th June 2007.
Perhaps it’s a sign of my misspent youth (I used to write ledger and payroll software) but accounting software bores me witless. I am more than happy to leave SAP and Sage coverage to others.
Last week, AccManPro’s Dennis Howlett and Twinfield’s David Terrar persuaded me to turf up at the announcement of what I thought [...]
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SmallBizPod #30 - Thursday 27 JulyDavid Tebbutt, journalist, media trainer and blogger on how small businesses should handle the press and communicate effectively. Details | iTunes |
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SmallBizPod #44 - Friday 20 April 2007Philip Molloy, UK chief executive of ISold It, talks about Ebay, clicks and mortar, how to role out a franchise and his own entrepreneurial journey. [Please note ISold It has gone bust] Details | iTunes |
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SmallBizPod #48 - Monday 11 June 2007Ben Casnocha, young entrepreneur, author and chairman of Comcate, on age & entrepreneurship, Silicon Valley & randomness in business. Details | iTunes |
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