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1 5 WordPress Plugins for Startup Search Engine & Social Media Marketing
5 free WordPress plugins that will help you market your startup more quickly and cost effectively online. They will take most people under two hours to install and configure. The benefits will be apparent to most website owners within one day.
2 How to Use LinkedIn to Promote Your Startup Quickly & Cost Effectively
LinkedIn.com, a site where business people can talk business to other business people safely.
3 Advice to Startups from Techcrunch: Make an Explainer Video
Two years ago, Jason Kincaid wrote a short but influential post titled “The Underutilized Power Of The Video Demo To Explain What The Hell You Actually Do.” He said:
During my time at TechCrunch I’ve seen thousands of startups and written about hundreds of them. I sure as hell don’t know all the secrets to building a successful company, but there are a few things I’ve seen that seem like surefire ways to ever-so-slightly grease the road to success. Here’s an...
4 Huddlebuy and Make It Cheaper launch ‘The Great Business Power Cut’
UK small businesses are overpaying for their energy bills to the tune of £2.5bn according to new figures released today. These figures comprise £1bn on gas bills and £1.5bn on electricity bills.
Small businesses should be saving £2,500 on average a year on their energy bills – more than 30% of a typical annual bill. Many businesses stuck on uncompetitive tariffs could be saving up to 70% on their energy costs.
In response, Huddlebuy.co.uk, the daily deals site for small businesses, and...
5 Make It Cheaper Delivers Instant Online Energy Quote
Make It Cheaper helps businesses to compare business electricity prices in one quick online search. This means that you can find out, right now, just how much you can save off your current energy costs immediately. It’s often hundreds or thousands of pounds per year.
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6 Lower Your Energy Bills This Winter: 5 Steps to Take Now
As recently reported in the Guardian, the UK’s addiction to gadgets is translating into higher emissions and higher energy bills. While the Guardian was addressing costs in the home, the truth is that businesses the UK are falling prey to the same higher costs.
More computer screens, more tablets, more phones…every device you plug in comes with a cost that goes beyond the purchase price. Use the following checklist to make sure you’re doing your part to conserve energy and to...
7 Looking for Loans, Grants or Investors? Check Out BusinessFunding.co.uk
BusinessFunding.co.uk tracks more than 1000 funding sources, ranging from banks and investor networks to grants and venture capital funds. It also provides a very in-depth list of Public sector funding sources which includes funding that originates from the UK government, devolved governments, regional and local government (i.e. Regional Development Agencies, Local Authorities and County Councils) as well as some funding from the European Union.
In recent months, as more and more funding sources disappear, it has become more and more...
8 Energy Costs for All UK SMEs Skyrocket
If you’ve seen the news today, you know the last of the ‘big six’ energy suppliers has put their domestic energy prices up by 15%. This price increase sounds severe, and it is, but the truth is business energy consumers see much higher price rises on a regular basis these days.
Believe it or not, small businesses are routinely seeing seeing renewal rate quotations that are up to 100% higher than their original rates
For example, Make it Cheaper, recently spoke to Haywards...
9 MIXUP: A Social Venture to Support Entertainers
MIXUP is social venture that provides opportunities for young people to showcase themselves to the entertainment industry. They offer Events for artists between the ages of 13 and 20 where they can showcase their material to capacity crowds. Through these events MIXUP also provide training in stage management, light engineering, sound engineering and house operation to 16-19 years olds that want to work behind the scenes. MIXUP also offers offer Artist Development through an advisory body that delivers information packages,...
10 A Midomo Bracelet: The Perfect Gift for An Enterprising Woman
People are crazy creatures. The more you know about us, the stranger we seem.
Entrepreneurs in particular, are studies in contradiction. We make so much of our ability to be logical, methodical and practical that we sometimes forget our very best work is also intuitive, ambitious and visionary.
Midomo water purification systems are simple, cost effective, elegant and they save lives. These little wheeled carts, developed by Red Button Design over the last three years, let people take water from almost any source...
