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More often than not, it is a combination of five key fear factors that frightens people into balking at the notion of a small enterprise or franchise business, according to one of the country’s leading franchise authorities.
http://www.dynamicbusiness.com.au/articles/articles-entrepreneur-profile/fight-big-five-fear-factors-says-cafe2u-franchise-founder-1234.html
Tuesday, October 12
3 Ways to Scale Your Personal Brand
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Personal branding for entrepreneurs in many cases is a massive paradox. One one hand, in the authentic, transparent business world we are living in right now, it is 100 percent imperative to have a personal brand–a human presence led by you. We all know that the cliche statements are true: People form relationships with people.
On the other hand, having a strong personal brand can also be a challenge of scalability. Can I scale myself? Am I too accessible? What happens if I go away?
http://smallbiztrends.com/2010/10/3-ways-scale-your-personal-brand.html
Personal branding for entrepreneurs in many cases is a massive paradox. One one hand, in the authentic, transparent business world we are living in right now, it is 100 percent imperative to have a personal brand–a human presence led by you. We all know that the cliche statements are true: People form relationships with people.
On the other hand, having a strong personal brand can also be a challenge of scalability. Can I scale myself? Am I too accessible? What happens if I go away?
http://smallbiztrends.com/2010/10/3-ways-scale-your-personal-brand.html
Dragons' Den advice on patents
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A recent episode of Dragons' Den contained a heated discussion on the subject of patents – and a very important lesson for anybody with an invention.
The Dragons were asked to invest in a product called Shopbox, which is a secure, temperature-controlled container for groceries that are ordered online. Those pitching the idea, Stuart Archbold and Andrew Leslie, claimed that their storage system was key to the future of grocery delivery as it would allow goods to be dropped off and left for many hours before a customer returned home. The pair had already spent almost £1m on their idea.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jobs/duncan-bannatyne/7922157/Dragons-Den-advice-on-patents.html
A recent episode of Dragons' Den contained a heated discussion on the subject of patents – and a very important lesson for anybody with an invention.
The Dragons were asked to invest in a product called Shopbox, which is a secure, temperature-controlled container for groceries that are ordered online. Those pitching the idea, Stuart Archbold and Andrew Leslie, claimed that their storage system was key to the future of grocery delivery as it would allow goods to be dropped off and left for many hours before a customer returned home. The pair had already spent almost £1m on their idea.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jobs/duncan-bannatyne/7922157/Dragons-Den-advice-on-patents.html
Worst of times, best of times
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State of Emergency: The Way We Were. Britain, 1970–1974. By Dominic Sandbrook.
AS PRIME MINISTERS, Edward Heath and Gordon Brown had quite a lot in common. Both were monstrously self-centred, permanently grumpy and capable of astonishing rudeness. Both of their relatively short-lived premierships ended in humiliating failure. In a recent poll of academics on Britain’s best and worst prime ministers since the second world war, Heath came ninth out of twelve and Mr Brown tenth. But that is where the similarities end. Whereas Mr Brown was largely the author of his own misfortunes (the banking crash apart), Heath, as Dominic Sandbrook reminds us in his splendidly readable new history of Britain during the four years from 1970, was faced with a set of problems whose intractability and nastiness would have overwhelmed even a far more gifted politician.
http://www.economist.com/node/17090761?story_id=17090761
State of Emergency: The Way We Were. Britain, 1970–1974. By Dominic Sandbrook.
AS PRIME MINISTERS, Edward Heath and Gordon Brown had quite a lot in common. Both were monstrously self-centred, permanently grumpy and capable of astonishing rudeness. Both of their relatively short-lived premierships ended in humiliating failure. In a recent poll of academics on Britain’s best and worst prime ministers since the second world war, Heath came ninth out of twelve and Mr Brown tenth. But that is where the similarities end. Whereas Mr Brown was largely the author of his own misfortunes (the banking crash apart), Heath, as Dominic Sandbrook reminds us in his splendidly readable new history of Britain during the four years from 1970, was faced with a set of problems whose intractability and nastiness would have overwhelmed even a far more gifted politician.
http://www.economist.com/node/17090761?story_id=17090761
Acronis offers cloud-based backup to small businesses
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Acronis has launched what it claims is a way for small businesses to use the cloud for disaster recovery. It has developed an on-demand backup service that will provide SMEs with the opportunity to benefit from the advantages of an offsite data centre without the need for an offsite data centre
http://news.techworld.com/storage/3242413/acronis-offers-cloud-based-backup-to-small-businesses/
Acronis has launched what it claims is a way for small businesses to use the cloud for disaster recovery. It has developed an on-demand backup service that will provide SMEs with the opportunity to benefit from the advantages of an offsite data centre without the need for an offsite data centre
http://news.techworld.com/storage/3242413/acronis-offers-cloud-based-backup-to-small-businesses/
Nick Clegg questions use of accountants to cut tax bills
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Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, has questioned the use of accountants to cut tax bills, suggesting it is "ethically wrong" for the wealthy to take advantage of legal loopholes to reduce their liabilities. Speaking from Liberal Democrat conference in Liverpool, he claimed that legal tax avoidance cost the economy £42 billion a year, and said that Government was working to stamp out the practice.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/liberaldemocrats/8015212/Nick-Clegg-questions-use-of-accountants-to-cut-tax-bills.html
Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, has questioned the use of accountants to cut tax bills, suggesting it is "ethically wrong" for the wealthy to take advantage of legal loopholes to reduce their liabilities. Speaking from Liberal Democrat conference in Liverpool, he claimed that legal tax avoidance cost the economy £42 billion a year, and said that Government was working to stamp out the practice.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/liberaldemocrats/8015212/Nick-Clegg-questions-use-of-accountants-to-cut-tax-bills.html
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