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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted by Sara Scott on 6th December 2007.
It seems that each and every time I engage with a small business, I have the same conversation over and over again. How easy do you make it for ‘the word’ about your business to spread? Do your customers pass on the good news about your product or service? Do you give your customers the [...]
Posted by Sara Scott on 22nd November 2007.
By trendy I don’t mean über flamboyant, or even at the vanguard of cool. But every business worth its salt should have its finger on the pulse of customer behaviour, know what your customer habits and preferences are right now and have a sense of what the trends are for the future.
In a nutshell, [...]
Posted by Sara Scott on 15th November 2007.
Let’s face it we all like to get something for nothing. And for small businesses, quite often it’s free advice and guidance that we crave in our quests to learn a lot as fast as possible to enable us to do the biz to the very best of our capabilities. No doubt that’s [...]
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SmallBizPod #46 - Friday 11 May 2007Live from the Business Startup Show including interviews with Lord Bilimoria of Cobra Beer and Michelle Dewberry, young entrepreneur & winner of The Apprentice. Details | iTunes |
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