Entrepreneurs for TV show CHANNEL FOUR SERIES “TRICKY BUSINESS” YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS WANTED * Have you recently set up your own business? * Are you young, enthusiastic, full of energy and believe you can make it work? * Do you want to turn your ideas into millions? If you are aged 16-28 and have recently started [...]

A TV production company are looking for businesses to take part in a new television series Does your business need a makeover? Are you struggling and don’t know why? Do all your best ideas backfire? The production team will give businesses the opportunity to gain specialist advice from a prominent and successful entrepreneur who knows [...]

What’s in store for us in 2006? Inspired by Google’s poor search relevancy and making friends with Wall Street rather than its users, disaffection is growing apace and surfers are switching their loyalties to Yahoo and MSN. Conspiracy theorists believe that Google influenced pay-per-click and the ranking process to crank up their share price to [...]

The following question appeared on an SEO Forum blog in September 2005: I had read that separating keywords in domain names was purely a matter of choice, or does this only relate to file names – webdesign.html -v- web-design.html being the same? The response provided to this question: There are two different issues involved with [...]

Factoring and invoice discounting (known as debtor finance) can dramatically improve your cash flow by releasing money as soon as you have completed an order and raised an invoice rather than having to wait for your customer to pay. This makes them ideal for funding growth. Because it’s linked to sales, factoring or invoice discounting [...]

The Small Firms Loan Guarantee scheme – SFLG -has been in existence to enable small businesses with a viable business plan, but lacking security, to borrow money from approved lenders. The Small Firms Loan Guarantee scheme (SFLG) is a joint venture between the DTI and the approved lenders. The scheme will provide loans between £5000 [...]

For the United Kingdom there are some 850 different grants provided by UK national organisations or European Union sources. In addition, there are some 3,000 “grants” provided by local councils, economic development units, enterprise agencies and other specific local bodies. The amount of grant depends upon the purpose for which it is given. The main [...]