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Online resources for small businesses Part 2

adam — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:41:20 +0000

The beauty of the internet in 2010, is that to gain some real attention in your market place, you need to supply visitors with incredible amounts of FREE useful information. (Check out Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson) As an SMB you have never had it so good. There is a [...]

Online resources for small businesses

adam — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:19:54 +0000

As we’ve mentioned in earlier posts (Opensource your home office Part1 and Part 2) advancements in Technology and the Internet in particular, has given small businesses the ability to extract some incredible insights into their markets. The type of information which was once only available to big businesses with huge market research budgets. As Francis [...]

What Small Business Grants Are Available In the UK?

adam — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:18:11 +0000

Starting a business requires a big investment. A lot of people want to start their own business or want to grow it but do not have the required capital to take the next step. One way of getting the money you need is to apply for small business grants. The grants are funding that is [...]

7 Steps To Taking Your Business Ideas To The Next Level

adam — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 12:01:20 +0000

Setting up a successful business idea from start to finish takes time, dedication and a willingness to become an entrepreneur and persevere. The entrepreneurial spirit can both help you succeed and drive the larger economy. There are seven steps that you can take, as an entrepreneur and self-starter, to take your business idea to the [...]

Top 3 Characteristics Of Successful Business Owners

austen — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:04:21 +0000

Success is sometimes a difficult thing to define or even to judge mainly because success means different things to different people. A successful business owner can be that elderly couple who has run that little independant bakery for fifty years in that quiet little town or they can be that tycoon who owns luxury resorts [...]

Why Outsourcing Parts of Your Home Business Makes Sense

adam — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:15:53 +0000

Owning your own business and working from home can give you a lot of freedom, however it may also bring about times of distress, as you become overloaded with projects and overworked. One way to relieve such stress is to share the responsibility with others and delegate work to companies or individuals in the form [...]

Time Management Techniques For Home Businesses

susanna — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:03:22 +0000

Perhaps you are thinking about starting your own home business or perhaps, you have already started and are discovering that you have difficulty meeting your daily goals. What you need is a little quick and effective time management training. Learning a few simple time management techniques will help you get off to a good start [...]

Our Favourite Free and Cheap Productivity Tools

adam — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:24:12 +0000

Working from home has a number of pretty awesome perks. However there are pitfalls that come with being out of a normal office environment. The main one being the fact there are hundreds of opportunities to be distracted from what it is that you’re supposed to be doing. Increasing your productivity should be a priority [...]

Open source your home office – Part 2

adam — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:10:58 +0000

This is part two in our series on how you can save yourself a small fortune by switching to opensource software instead of their expensive brand name equivalents. If you haven’t yet read the first post you can check it out here: Opensource your home office and save yourself a packet! Email Client’s Mozilla’s Thunderbird [...]

Opensource your home office and save yourself a packet!

adam — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:54:39 +0000

If your knowledge of the current software industry is a little rusty; let us give you a quick update on the current state of small business software and maybe in the process answer the question that most newbies ask themselves when they first hear about opensource software. “Why on earth, are they give this away [...]