Are you charging the right amount?
How do you know what to charge for your service or product?  How can you be sure that it is worth what you want it to be worth?  How can you guarantee that you won’t alienate your potential customer base by setting your prices too high?  It’s tough…but you can [...]

The Government’s coming Consumer White Paper will focus on tackling online fraud according to Affairs Minister Gareth Thomas.
The Minister has been talking to Trading Standards professionals in Manchester saying that more effective measures need to be put in place to protect businesses and consumers who use the internet to buy goods and services. Many find [...]

Are they doing enough?
Lord Peter Mandelson, the business secretary, has announced that the government will be continuing its commitment to providing aid and support to Britain’s small businesses - this announcement comes shortly after the up-roar in the small business industry in response to the recently announced budget which has been said to have failed [...]

Meetings - are they wasting your time?
Where would your business be if you didn’t have meetings - every business needs to schedule a certain amount of time out of every week to old meetings with clients, customers managers, etc.  But did you know that on average you are wasting around an eighth of the week [...]

The budget: what is means to your small business…
The budget has been unleashed upon the country and not many people are happy - the outlook is grim as Britain is expected to be paying off debt for plenty of years to come.  But what does it all mean for small businesses?

The country will be borrowing [...]

Online retail doesn’t have to be a catastrophe!
Online retail has gone from strength to strength over the past couple of years and with the doom and gloom of the recession online sales have actually been enjoying a large amount of success – after all what better way to search for a bargain than online?
But are [...]

Official figures are expected to show that the UK economy shrank in the first quarter of this year at the same pace that it did in the final three months of last year, which is obviously not necessarily going to be good for business.
Analysts are predicting that the gross domestic product (GDP) will have fallen [...]

Office Advice – The Options…
Do you find that you are crippling your profits because you are forking out to cover the cost of your office space?  Do you want to do something about it?  Don’t worry, there could be options for you that don’t involve therapy and angry bank managers…

Rent has gone through the roof [...]