The departure of Labour peer, Lord Adonis, as independent infrastructure advisor to the Government last week highlights a far more serious issue for business than a simple disagreement between traditional political rivals over a controversial policy.
Recently I’ve been asked by a number of small and micro business owners how best they should outsource their cold calling. Their thinking behind doing this is normally one of three reasons: They don’t want to do it themselves, they don’t have cold calling expertise within their team or they think by outsourcing it or getting someone else to do it, it gets rid of the problem!
The 50p higher rate of income tax is “damaging the economy” and delaying the recovery from recession, more than 500 entrepreneurs and business owners warn today.
Banks are rarely out of the headlines at the moment. The subject that has generated the most column inches has been their failure to hit their Project Merlin small business lending targets.
