Due to a recent increase on spam and frauding emails coming through I wanted to notify of a fairly recent scam that has come to light which could potentially affect many businesses and owners credit ratings: A business friend of ours was recently sent a new credit card through the post for business banking. While…
The Right Funds for You is a business seminar held on 12th August from 4pm – 7pm at Pride Park in Derby. Are you an SME based in the East Midlands? Are you looking to fulfil your high growth potential by securing investment? If so, this friendly, informal event is for you. The seminar is…
Another fellow Twitter friend @StarPS has kindly offered to write a guest blog offering you her top ten tips to recruitment: Top Ten Tips When Recruiting a New Team Member 1. A CV is not a legally binding document!Anyone can write a CV for anyone else. A CV can be tweaked, elaborated and downright fibbed…
£50,000 Award For Disabled Entrepreneurs The creation of the Award was motivated by Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, whose goal is supporting disabled entrepreneurs and also raising awareness of the skills and inventiveness of those with disabilities. The winning disabled entrepreneur will be awarded a £50,000 prize to fund the further growth of their business. Can you…
I was recently sent an invitation to join a new online resource for women in business and thought I would share this with you as it contains some fantastic information to help everyone in business. WomansWork is a monthly one-stop resource for women. Providing support for start-ups, the self-employed, those wishing to get back into…
Over the years working with a wide section of business, from small to large, it’s always interesting to see how different businesses carry out their marketing Many businesses take the butterfly approach, flitting from one activity to another, not really getting much accomplished and moving from one activity to another in hope of immediate results…
Brighter Directions publish a monthly newsletter packed full of tips and information affecting the business industry around the East Midlands, UK To help keep you up to date we will be publishing the content on our blog each month.. July 2010 Issue: Last week’s #budget means a lot of changes, particularly for the smaller business.…
What is, as Bush put it; ‘the vision thing?’ Well, you’d be surprised how few companies, large as well as small, actually get this right, including more than a few who enjoyed mocking poor old George. I was recently discussing this story with a client who assumed they had ‘the vision thing’ sorted and who…