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A survey of SMEs has found that nearly half use credit cards or overdrafts to fund their business. Well, beggars can't be choosers.
Read more here:
http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/bulletin/mtenterpriseweekly/article/1054392/risky-business-entrepreneurs-forced-rely-flaky-funding/
Friday, February 18
10 office gadgets that won't survive
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Memory sticks, desk phones and calculators are some of the office gadgets destined to go the way of the typewriter, Tipp-ex 'liquid paper' and floppy discs, according to a leading retailer. An analysis of sales of office equipment has discovered that some items, until recently considered cutting edge, are quickly falling from favour. Perhaps the biggest surprise is a fall in sales of memory sticks and compact discs, the two items that head the list of "endangered office gadgets" compiled by Pixmania-Pro, the office equipment retailer owned by the Dixons group.
Read more here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8316191/10-office-gadgets-that-wont-survive.html?sms_ss=email&at_xt=4d54ecbe5c3d1281%2C0
Memory sticks, desk phones and calculators are some of the office gadgets destined to go the way of the typewriter, Tipp-ex 'liquid paper' and floppy discs, according to a leading retailer. An analysis of sales of office equipment has discovered that some items, until recently considered cutting edge, are quickly falling from favour. Perhaps the biggest surprise is a fall in sales of memory sticks and compact discs, the two items that head the list of "endangered office gadgets" compiled by Pixmania-Pro, the office equipment retailer owned by the Dixons group.
Read more here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8316191/10-office-gadgets-that-wont-survive.html?sms_ss=email&at_xt=4d54ecbe5c3d1281%2C0
Business.co.uk launches as support website
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Small businesses and start ups are being targeted by the latest venture from serial entrepreneur Nick Ogden.
The Business.co.uk domain name, one of the first domains created in the UK, is being relaunched as a not-for-profit start-up business support site with discounted deals from companies like BT, NatWest and AXA Insurance.
Serial internet entrepreneur Nick Ogden, 55, has owned the domain name since 1994 but only decided to launch the business support site two weeks ago.
Read more here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/yourbusiness/8272268/Business.co.uk-launches-as-support-website.html?sms_ss=email&at_xt=4d4958a430da256d%2C0
Small businesses and start ups are being targeted by the latest venture from serial entrepreneur Nick Ogden.
The Business.co.uk domain name, one of the first domains created in the UK, is being relaunched as a not-for-profit start-up business support site with discounted deals from companies like BT, NatWest and AXA Insurance.
Serial internet entrepreneur Nick Ogden, 55, has owned the domain name since 1994 but only decided to launch the business support site two weeks ago.
Read more here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/yourbusiness/8272268/Business.co.uk-launches-as-support-website.html?sms_ss=email&at_xt=4d4958a430da256d%2C0
Export help for small businesses unveiled
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Measures to encourage smaller companies to export more have been unveiled by Business Secretary Vince Cable, as figures showed a widening in the UK's trade deficit in goods and services.
Read more here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12403026
Measures to encourage smaller companies to export more have been unveiled by Business Secretary Vince Cable, as figures showed a widening in the UK's trade deficit in goods and services.
Read more here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12403026
'Not enough' landline competition
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Ofcom has not done enough to increase competition among landline providers and to make switching providers easier, a report concludes.
Read more here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12413177
Ofcom has not done enough to increase competition among landline providers and to make switching providers easier, a report concludes.
Read more here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12413177
UK interest rates set to be held
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UK interest rates are expected to be held at 0.5% later, after the latest meeting of the Bank of England's rate-setters.
Read more here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12413773
UK interest rates are expected to be held at 0.5% later, after the latest meeting of the Bank of England's rate-setters.
Read more here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12413773
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