Should You Carefully Craft a Business Plan or Make do with a To-do List? Are you’re taking time to carefully perfect a business plan to help ensure your company’s model is sound and that it will be a success? If so, stop. You’re probably wasting your time. Most business plans bear no relationship to the Continue reading »
Get a Price Quotation: How Hard Could that be? It would seem straightforward enough to get a price quotation from a supplier. Right! You describe what you want, you provide volume information and desired terms. The supplier then gives you their pricing and delivery terms. There’s really nothing to it. Think again. In reality, like Continue reading »
National and Regional UK Business Boom by Young Entrepreneurs The UK is standing on the brink of a youth business boom, according to a report by The Prince’s Trust. The report reveals that the UK could be on the brink of a youth business boom as 30 percent of young people between 16 and 30, Continue reading »
Outsourcing Manufacturing to China If you are a new start-up or SME (Small and Medium Enterprise) wanting to keep costs down and considering outsourcing your manufacturing to China, you may find, what should be a relatively simple task, is a challenge more daunting than expected. Unfortunately, outsourcing your manufacturing to China is, in reality, quite Continue reading »
Realistic Methods of Earning Money Online at Home To day I’m going to show you how you can make between $25 and $100 per day online working from home. The steps for achieving this are relatively simple so I’m just going to quickly run through the steps necessary without too much elaboration. You’ll notice I’m Continue reading »
Top Five Business Mantras Of Kelly Hoppen Kelly Hoppen MBE is a mother, designer, businesswoman, entrepreneur and Prince’s Trust ambassador. Kelly, won the Andrew Martin International Interior Designer of the Year award in 1996, was awarded an MBE in 2009 and is now an ambassador for The Prince’s Trust. The Prince’s Trust aims to help Continue reading »
A Mantra Can Also be Your Mission Statement With the influx of Eastern spirituality into Western culture, the idea of the mantra has found its way into the business world. In business, a mantra should summarises a companies mission statement in a short and snappy memorable way. Mantra Origins Mantras originated in the Vedic tradition Continue reading »
What Are SMEs, SMBs and SOHO Enterprises Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) or small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are companies whose personnel numbers fall below defined limits. A company is an association or collection of people. Company members share a common purpose in order to focus their various talents and resources to achieve specific goals. Continue reading »
NCWE Awards Running for 10 Years The mission of The National Council for Work Experience (NCWE), a ‘not-for-profit’ organisation, is to promote, support and develop quality work experience for the benefit of students, organisations and the economy. Work experience underpins and contributes to career, skills and development choices, which link to work-force development. NCWE’s activities Continue reading »
How Small Businesses Can Prepare for Auto Enrolment Pensions As you probably know, all UK small businesses must engage in the daunting task of enrolling their workforce into the Government’s auto-enrolment workplace pension project by 2018. In the next few years up to 11 million workers not currently in workplace pensions will be automatically placed Continue reading »
According to Consumer Watchdog Which? British Shoppers Squander £2billion A Year Online According to consumer group Which?, who surveyed 2, 066 people about their shopping rights online, British online shoppers are wasting £2.1?billion a year because they don’t know their rights. Which? exists to make people as powerful as the organisations that affect their lives. Continue reading »
Could Square Cash be the End of Paypal? A new money transfer service is set to give PayPal a run for your money. The new service, Square, is set to make the money transfer process even easier. Although only available in the US and Canada at the moment, Square is the shape of things to Continue reading »
Work From Home as a Part Time Entrepreneur Have you ever thought of starting a business but put the idea on hold because you cannot risk throwing in the day job to put all your time and money into your venture? Well, think again. With the advent of the Internet many business owners start off Continue reading »
Top tips from The Prince’s Trust Ambassador – Kelly Hoppen Reveals Her Entrepreneurial Secrets. Getting good advice when starting any project is key to success. If anyone can give some good advice to those thinking of launching their own business it’s Kelly Hoppen. In this video for The Prince’s Trust, Kelly walks two young business Continue reading »
Expert Warns Stay-at-home Mothers Face Prejudice I would say that bringing up children is the most important job there is, yet according to Dr Aric Sigman, there is a growing prejudice against stay-at-home mothers. Dr Aric Sigman, who has four children, is a leading child development expert and fellow of the Society of Biology and Continue reading »
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