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Top 8 Mistakes When You Manage Your Own Event
Bringing people together gives your business momentum. You have just one chance to get it right – and so many ways to go wrong!
Top 10 Tips to Start a Food Business
Lots of food businesses have made the leap from kitchen table to household name. Whatever your ambition our top ten tips will get you off to a solid start.
What Does It Take To Be An Executive?
The tide may be about to turn for executive women. Make sure that you have 5 key skills in place so that you can make the most of opportunities when they come along.
Commercial Property: Opportunities for Innovation
The recession has hit the commercial property sector hard. But for those able to innovate there are some great opportunities to be found.
British-made fashion is back in business
With Mary Portas, traditional brands and new young designers – as well as high-street chains – backing British clothing manufacture, home-grown fashion is back in style
How Cleansing Can Activate Your Creativity
Could a three-day cleanse really make a lasting difference to energy levels, immune system and general health? Could a cleanse help to reignite creativity. Anne Francis takes the challenge.
Fitting in With Potential Customers’ Expectations
Before you visit a potential new customer, it can be a good idea to check their website to help you understand their brand image. If you look like you fit in, that customer will be able to picture you fitting in with their business more easily.
Can You Have too many Contacts in your LinkedIn Network?
Don’t waste time on LinkedIn and other social networks with techniques that are simply intent on connecting with more people or adding more followers. You will be disappointed by the return on your investment.
How being a parent is great training for management
Running a business isn’t easy, neither is being a parent. But the skills you need to do both well are interchangeable.
Women inch towards equality in the boardroom
Since the Davies report set its 25% target, there has been some painful, but measurable, progress
The Best Windows Time-Management Apps
The three best time-management and organisational apps, specifically for Windows users.
Turning to ListNerds for Inspiration
Who doesn’t love a list? And how did it take so long for a list focused social network to emerge? It’s early days for listnerd.com but it could become a centre for ideas, inspiration and collaboration.
The Rustic Rose: A ‘Shabby Chic’ Start-up Story
The Rustic Rose revamps vintage & antique furniture with a beautiful ‘shabby chic’ style. Launched 2 years ago, the team have just moved into their own studio.
Bootstrappers 10 Top Tips for Starting a Business from Home
If you love the idea of starting your own business but don’t have any funding, then bootstrapping is the answer.
The Top Ten Tips of Festive Food Safety
Sarah Daniels shares her festive food safety top tips, to help make sure you get the break you deserve.
10 Reasons to Start a Business when you’re Over 50
Whatever your reason for starting a business when you’re over 50 you have some fantastic advantages.
Building a Successful Online Home Business
The internet could make your dream of a flexible business a reality.
Business Link Website Squeezes Out Diversity
The Business Link website was a vital resource for UK businesses. Has its replacement Gov.UK thrown the baby out with the bathwater?
Prowess 2.0 Speaks Out for Women’s Business on BBC Newsnight
Prowess Editor Erika Watson came out fighting for women business owners on last night’s BBC Newsnight.