Monthly Archives: June 2010

Graham Howes, Managing Director of Edge Hypno

Graham Howes is the founder of Edge Hypno. Graham attended our “Low Cost, Fast Growth Marketing” event in Ipswich last week, and has kindly answered a few questions for us regarding his business.

What does your business do?

I am a Hypnotherapist and NLP practitioner but also an actor teacher and playwright. I offer a broad range of therapies from stop smoking and weight loss to fears like flying and phobias like spiders. I also...

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Guinness Bring It To Life Awards

Guinness introduce a social entrepreneurship programme to the UK, inviting people with a business head and a social heart who are aged between 25 and 35 to enter the Bring It To Life Awards. The Awards, with UnLtd and Rathbone, will work with people who have a brilliant urban regeneration idea that makes a positive difference to their local community and provide recipients with the support, skills and funding to create positive social ventures. The Guinness Bring it to Life...

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The Secret of Flexible Labour: How to Hire a Little Bit of a Person

In the new digital economy, websites like elance.com, ifreelance.com and mechanicalturk.com make it ridiculously easy to find large quantities of skilled labour quickly and to hire people to complete specific tasks very cost effectively.

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Interview with Doug Richard

Doug Richard is interviewed by Mark Murphy on BBC Radio Suffolk.

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Social business is generating a big turnover

In the past, social businesses were seen as something of a novelty. But that has changed. Earlier this week Royal Bank of Scotland launched the RBS Social Enterprise 100 index, which has attempted to quantify social enterprise for the first time. And the results are surprising.

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Does Branding Always Matter?

Branding always matters. Branding is your connection to your customer. Understanding and communicating your brand is understanding and communicating exactly why you and your customers should be conducting business together. Branding is key to generating sales in both the short and the long term, and it is the core requirement of effective marketing.

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Dragon Pays A Call

Serial entrepreneur and former BBC Dragons' Den "dragon" Doug Richard is brining his own brand of business know-how to Suffolk today as part of a national tour.

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Some Resources We Recommend

If you have suggestions of tools you use and recommend, we welcome all submissions. Send them to info@schoolforstartups.co.uk.

GoDaddy

Great registrar for domain names. Quick setup for WordPress, Magento, Linux and Windows Sites, great tools for building websites very quickly, and great administration tools.

Word Press on GoDaddy

State of the Art website building tool. You can build a commercial website in a few hours, or hire someone to do it for you just as quickly. GoDaddy has options that let you buy a Domain...

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Enter the Dragon on mission boost business

A serial entrepreneur and former BBC TV Dragon will be bringing his own brand of business know-how to Ipswich this week as part of a national tour.

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