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Nov-8th-2009

Extra 25mn to help stimulate the economy

The Bank of England’s rate-setters have decided to pump an extra £25bn into the economy in their quantitative easing (QE) programme.
They also kept interest rates unchanged at 0.5% for an eighth month. The Bank has already spent £175bn on QE, which involves printing money to buy assets from banks and other companies to stimulate the [...]

Oct-25th-2009

Katie Price – cheap glamour girl or business mogul?

Katie Price or Jordan, whatever you want to call her, there is no question that where she gos, the tabloids and drama seems to follow. She is one of those people that the nation seems divided about, particularly since her recent messy split with Peter Andre. When she and Peter were together she appeared to [...]

Oct-24th-2009

Marketing a business

One of the key things needed to have a successful business is a successful marketing campaign, but what is the best way to do this? There are so many issues to contend with and you have to get it right as the wrong marketing strategy can destroy a product before it’s even had time [...]

Oct-23rd-2009

Putting a price on your business

Once you’ve decided on a business plan; what your product is going to be and which market you are going to target, the next thing to do before taking the product to the marketplace is to decide on a retail price which will enable you to make a profit. Now not having had much experience [...]

Oct-22nd-2009

Fitting a product to a business niche

Following on from my last blog, I now had to try and match my product to the right market hopefully finding a niche for me to showcase my cakes. The baking I do is not fancy or frilly it’s just homemade classics done well, gooey chocolate brownies, victoria sponge cakes, flapjacks etc so where is [...]

Oct-21st-2009

Deciding on what business to do?

After a few afternoons of baking I realised that I actually had quite a passion for it and after getting my friends and family to taste and test my efforts it became clear that I wasn’t half bad at it either, everyone was definitely giving my baking the thumbs up, one of friends actually suggested [...]

Oct-20th-2009

Where do you start with a new business?

I think everyone deep down has a bit of entrepeneur in them, it’s just a case of whether you want to bring it out and use it. I, like a lot of people have really stuck with jobs I know best, never really seeing myself as a business woman, I don’t know why, I think [...]

Sep-29th-2009

Facebook bad for business?

Many business are using face book to drive traffic and sale to their site. But many business are also having problems with staff using face book while they should be working. Dragon Theo Paphitis recently wrote an article about why he was banning the social networking site at his work.
On the contrary James Caan [...]

Sep-5th-2009

Making Money From Scratch Series

I’ve started working on a series of posts built around the topic of making money online from scratch. Over the course of the week, I’ll post business ideas and online strategies to make money with little or no investment to begin with, to emphasise the wealth of possibilities available online.
The first part of the [...]

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