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I know that a lot of eCommerce businesses try to ignore or disregard the importance of managing the costs of selling online. However, it is something you MUST do before even considering selling online. By costs, I don’t just mean your website build - there are so many additional costs…
As we use the world wide web for hours on a daily basis, we take for granted the amazing technology we have available to us. As someone who relies so heavily on the internet, especially for business, I was astounded to read the amount of information that is shared in…
The UK housing market has been at the sharp end of the recession. Prices have fallen by 18% from the August 2007 peak and the number of transactions is running at half the levels seen before the financial crisis. House building has collapsed. In 2011/12 the number of new homes…
Friday, 05 April 2013 17:47
Healthy Food Group Secures 'Vital Ingredient' For 11 New Stores
Written by Entrepreneur Country
Healthy fast-food retailer Vital Ingredient is set to more than double in size creating up to 150 new jobs in central London, after securing a £2.75 million finance package from Santander's Breakthrough programme.
Va Va Voom! is as sexy as they come in the world of advertising catchphrases. Ever since it was first spoken by the charismatic French goal machine Monsieur Thierry Henry for Renault it has been an advertiser’s dream come true.
We all know that generating new business is not easy in this economic climate. We also understand that it’s far more practical and tremendously cheaper to keep our existing customers and develop them into higher yield customers than finding new ones.
Thursday, 04 April 2013 12:13
Crowdcube and Entrepreneur Country partner to secure investment for OVIVO Mobile
Written by Luke Lang, Co-founder of Crowdcube
I am happy to announce that London-based OVIVO Mobile successfully secured £150,000 investment from 68 investors through Crowdcube recently to become the first business referred by Entrepreneur Country and Ariadne Capital to hit its funding target.
Hallelujah! Toe-curling phrases like “track changes” are dying out. Documents no longer need to be sent back and forth with hideous names like “Marketing plan FINAL 3”. Innovations like Skype, Dropbox, and Yammer allow colleagues in different countries to work on the same project at the same time as if…
Tuesday, 02 April 2013 18:04
Little Red Corvette - Richard Branson, Virgin and Entrepreneurship
Written by Peter Cook
On Easter Sunday I took the inaugural flight on Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic "Little Red" domestic flight in partnership with Aer Lingus from Manchester to London. Cue the music:
Remember back to the start of the year? You resolved to make 2013 your best year yet. Yet four months on it’s tougher than you thought. So how do you keep motivated in order to achieve those demanding goals you set yourself?
Modern law facilitates the creation and operation of corporations because – and only to the extent that – they serve our collective as well as our individual needs and aspirations. The privileges such entities enjoy should be framed with the primary objective of helping them to meet these needs.
It is a paradox that while Western governments are seeking to curb borrowing corporates are running record cash balances.
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