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 [...]
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Posted by Simon Lawrence on 8th April 2008.
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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Posted by Alex Bellinger on 1st April 2008.
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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Posted by Alex Bellinger on 22nd January 2008.
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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Posted by David Tebbutt on 14th January 2008.
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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Posted by David Tebbutt on 17th December 2007.
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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