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Going Solo - how to do it right

‘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 [...]

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What is b2b marketing? - Part II

Following on from my first post on B2B marketing, broadly speaking there are five main elements to consider when creating your marketing campaign.
1 Create a single view of your customer
Sound complicated? Its not really, this is a term commonly used to describe the end result of having as much information as possible about your [...]

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Small Business Video Podcast Launched

Some of you may have spotted BizPod TV, a new project that I’m very pleased to be working on.  Click on the YouTube video below to see the latest episode and, if you enjoy it, please do subscribe via iTunes - just click here. 

I knew when I set out to create a short, informative, [...]

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Small Business Accounting & Tax Made Simple

When I first started my own business some three years ago, I was an avid frequenter of small business and startup forums (and I still am). 
While picking the brains of various experts on the boards, there was one name that kept cropping up with really excellent advice on the nitty-gritty of basic small business [...]

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Cisco arms the SMB

Last month Alex, our beloved leader, and I trotted along to meet Cisco’s SMB director Bernadette Wightman. In between all sorts of interesting side-tracks, we learned a bit about the company’s offerings for small and medium businesses.
The sidetracks were essentially about TelePresence and corporate social responsibility. We went into a room with an oval table [...]

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Are you safe?

I see that our beloved leaders are knocking off tomorrow until January 7th. Slipping under the wire will be Alistair Darling to explain how our data will be safer in future. Sounds like a PR exercise to me, but I’ll be very interested to hear what he says. This is against a backdrop of stopping [...]

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SmallBizPod #70 - Jagriti Yatra - a great entrepreneurial journey

SmallBizPod #70 - Jagriti Yatra - a great entrepreneurial journey

Interview with Gitanjali Banerjee Bhattacharya & Kaustav Bhattacharya about an extraordinary entrepreneurial train journey in India, what it hopes to achieve & how grass roots business can inspire social change.

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SmallBizPod #48 - Monday 11 June 2007

SmallBizPod #48 - Monday 11 June 2007

Ben Casnocha, young entrepreneur, author and chairman of Comcate, on age & entrepreneurship, Silicon Valley & randomness in business.

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SmallBizPod #34 - Wednesday 22 November

SmallBizPod #34 - Wednesday 22 November

Juliette Prouse, of Qube Communications interviews George Torok, Canadian marketing expert,on personal branding and getting one up on the competition.

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SmallBizPod #49 - Tuesday 19 June 2007

SmallBizPod #49 - Tuesday 19 June 2007

Jason Calacanis, CEO of Mahalo.com and one of the US's best known and most controversial Web 2.0 entrepreneurs. [Photo: Hyku]

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