Sheffield is to host a national festival for entrepreneurs that will be the first of its kind in the UK.
Monthly Archives: July 2010
The Secret To Step Change In Business
Every small business person knows the feeling: it can strike at any time. It’s the feeling of low grade anxiety and despair that comes with someone telling you how to make your business better or more successful.
It’s an odd response from an outsider’s point of view. Here you are, say, at a trade show, and the man in the booth is going on about how his service will save your business thousands of pounds next year, or how it will...
Protecting Your Business From Bad Social Media
Social media can be the best friend you ever had or the worst enemy you ever made. It can literally redefine a person, or a business, overnight. Want your business to stay on the right side of social media? Here's some practical advice.
Crafting a Public Relations Message For Your Enterprise
Public relations messages are very terse communications that pair a product or a company with a strong positive emotion or feeling. They can be expressed in very few words, but they communicate a great deal.
Elance: Skilled Labour at a Price You Can Afford
Elance is a site where freelancers and those who need to hire them can connect and conduct business online.
The Myth Of The Natural Entrepreneur
The Sunday edition of the Times contained a thoughtful piece by Rachel Bridges on whether entrepreneurs are born or made: whether they alight naturally in this world or whether the influences around them as they are raised are principally responsible for their entrepreneurial talent.
You may think this is just a self-indulgent debate. But it is not. The importance of entrepreneurial effort to the recovery of the nation cannot be overstated. The successful exploitation of innovation and thus the rise in...
12 Free Press Release Sites: Great for SEO & PageRank
Why submit press releases about your business to free press release sites? Because Google determines where to rank your website, in part, based on how many sites like to it, and in particular, how many high-value sites link to it. Since many of these press release sites report to news.google.com, which one of the highest ranking sites on the internet, posting releases on them provides a great boost to your search engine ranking. Furthermore, if the topic of your release...
Practical Q&A With Doug Richard: Mentoring, Recruiting & Seeing Opportunities
At a recent Start Here: Starting & Growing a Successful Business event held in London, we received the following questions. We’ve taken a moment to respond to them. We thought others might find the answers interesting.
An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Google PageRank & Search Engine Optimization
Almost everyone starting a business or trying to grow a company benefits from understanding the fundamentals of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). It allows them to derive more revenue from the time and effort they spend marketing their products and services. PageRank is, perhaps, the key concept you must understand in order to optimize your web site design for maximum profitability.
