Advice on growing your small and medium sized business, SME, in the UK. Hiring and managing staff and finance plus marketing all on one website
Working 12 hour days, six days a week, becoming an entrepreneur means turning your job into your whole life, but loving every minute. Since its launch in 2009, the PoolMate has positioned itself at the forefront of a wave of innovations in performance-enhancing athletics technology, across over 60 countries. Lisa Irlam, (pictured centre) founder of Swimovate and creator of the PoolMate, discusses her inspirations and challenges and gives practical advice to aspiring entrepreneurs.
As we approach the Christmas season, with demands on us from staff parties, client entertaining as well as family and friends many of us will struggle during the day.
The divide between those who are paid significant salaries with generous bonuses and those on more modest incomes (and for some national minimum wage) seems to be getting wider. Recent press articles indicate that senior management salaries have increased up to 75 per cent whilst employees’ salaries are expected to rise less than 3 per cent. It seems hard to understand the rationale and mechanics of this disparity.
Research has revealed that when considering hiring a new member of staff, small businesses across the UK value experience over qualifications. The study also found that interviewers value ‘cleanliness’ more so than ‘politeness’.
Traditional networking is no longer sufficient for SME’s as gone are the days of ‘pressing flesh’ in the hope of reciprocal business months down the line.
The news that one million 16-24 year olds are now unemployed has prompted serial entrepreneur Lyndon Wood to propose a solution to the problem, backed by the firm offer to provide jobs for a minimum of 50 people.
It’s never too late to go back to school and admit that you don’t know what you don’t know. Because, in the words of John F Kennedy, “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other”.
How to make the most of the information you have within your business and how to use it to drive growth. The article covers identifying what information you need and how you need it to be presented and offers some suggested actions. Part two will look at how to use this data.
The creator of an ingenious way to deal with burst pipes took to the dancefloor with four other entrepreneurs and emerged victorious in Britain’s biggest business pitching contest.
In the current economic climate, some businesses have been forced to realign their strategy to the detriment of their corporate social responsibility objectives. In response, the Social Enterprise Mark Company has launching its first national campaign, 50 in 250, designed to support businesses’ use of certified social enterprises within their supply chains, and in the process dramatically improve the benefit they deliver to communities.
One in five young people who have recently graduated from University are currently out of work, the highest proportion of 21-24 year olds for 15 years . With limited job options available, the notion of becoming an entrepreneur is becoming increasingly attractive.
As much as £9 billion pounds could be added to the British economy if SMEs that aspire to grow were able to do so. Key barriers to growth, which need to be overcome, include economic uncertainly, regulation and market demand.
Business Bootcamp today announces the launch of an Alumni network and a series of exciting business offers and support services for entrepreneurs in London.
Disabled people are “better equipped” to become entrepreneurs and successful business owners than many non disabled people, says Shane Bratby co-founder of DisabledEntrepreneurs, the UK’s leading organisation for disabled people with business brains.
An office’s green credentials are increasingly trumping more traditional drivers such as cost and location as companies grow increasingly keen to show off their environmental awareness.
