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Cutting Staff Costs Without Cutting Staff
With the state of the current economy many businesses are needing to find ways to reduce their overheads as the recession takes hold. For some employers, this means redundancies and for others, adopting alternative ways to make the necessary cost savings whilst trying to maintain their existing staff in whom they have invested time and resources. You should however turn to layoffs only after you've tried just about everything else. So before you sign the [+]How To Attract More Customers
Businesses across the country are struggling, so knowing how to attract new clients to your business is crucial. One of the key factors to attracting new clients is marketing. First thing first is you need to ask yourself these questions; Why do people buy from you? What do you really do for your customers? How are you better than your competition and what special skills or advantages do you have? The answers to these questions are [+]Unemployment on the rise again
Unemployment throughout the UK is on the rise again. In fact the rate has increased to a near 17-year high after another rise in the jobless total to almost 2.7 million. The Office for National Statistics, which published its assessment of the impact of the strike on the labour market alongside the latest figures, said the last time a strike had such an impact was in 1989. The info also shows that pay growth in the [+]Unemployment rise – what does this mean for small businesses?
With recent statistics highlighting that unemployment is set to rise in 2012 to 8.8% from the recently reported current 8.3% - will this put further strain on small businesses? It has been reported that a third of small start up businesses find it difficult to hire suitable employees who are skilled enough for specific jobs. This difficulty will then reflect the success of the business and cause problems as they start up. The Federation of Small Businesses [+]Experts Warn Small Firms of the Need to be More Aware of IT Security Risks
According to new research small businesses are putting their security into jeopardy because of a lack of awareness of threats to their IT Internet services company Eclipse Internet carried out the survey, contacting over 1,300 small businesses. It found that over half of those surveyed were not aware of a computer virus called Koobface that targets Facebook & of the potential threat this posed for their businesses. Only thirty per cent of businesses involved in the research [+]Backdated Energy Bills Hit SMEs
Government figures have recently revealed that nearly 2,000 small businesses are facing high energy bills for gas & electricity because inaccurate estimates issued last year have left them with revised invoices. In 2010 the helpline Consumer Direct was called by 1,848 small businesses to complain that they had received backdated bills. Audrey Gallacher – head of energy at the energy watchdog Consumer Focus - stated that the problem was due in part to the energy suppliers sending [+]