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 »
Teenager, Molly Clegg, Buys Shop Where She Worked on Saturdays Starting a new enterprise is never easy, but if you have the courage, determination and resources you can succeed. So thinks teenager Molly Clegg, 18, from Lincolnshire who used her university fund to buy the jewellery shop where she has been working at weekends for Continue reading »
SMEs Bear the Brunt of HMRC Affluent Unit Crackdown You might be surprised to learn that HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) recruitment of an additional 100 tax inspectors to its Affluent Unit (the team’s remit is to examine the tax affairs of those with more than 1 million in private wealth) has actually lead to Continue reading »
Google Facebook Internet Domination Google, Facebook, Yahoo and YouTube feature in most of our lives but how do they feature on the global scale? The map, created by researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute, (show below) used data from millions of people’s browsing history and shows Google (red) as the most popular site (62 countries) Continue reading »
Work From Home Mother in Direct Selling Jobs Over 120,000 Did you know there are now over 120,000 mothers in the UK working in direct selling for companies such as Avon, Amway, Betterware and Kleeneze? Currently women make up 76 percent of the UK’s 400,000 direct sellers. The Direct Selling Association (DSA), who represents the Continue reading »
Cyber Crime & Bank Fraud – Personal & Business Identity Theft You are probably one of the millions of customers who use online banking every month to check their account balances, make payments and manage direct debits, but are you managing this safely and securely? What happens if you become a target for cyber criminals? Continue reading »
‘It’s Go Time’ at GoDaddy! GoDaddy recently launched a new brand strategy revolving around small businesses. ‘It’s go time’ is a comprehensive company-wide messaging transformation supported by a refined GoDaddy user experience and reinvigorated product offerings. GoDaddy’s CEO Blake Irving said, “This is the radical shift we knew we had to make and it’s more Continue reading »
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