By John Walker on August 19, 2011
As an alternative loyalty scheme to rival supermarkets signs up more than 500 businesses in just six months, a local business owner under the scheme, Heather Copley talks about her experience running a small business in today’s climate.
A shopping loyalty scheme set up to get people out of supermarkets and into farm shops is gathering [...]
Posted in Advertising and Marketing Services, Agriculture, Farming and Farming Support Services, Contact Management, Customer Retention, Customer Reward Programmes, Deals and Agreements, Fashion, Trends and Memes, Food, Drink and Tobacco Retail, Food, Drink and Tobacco Wholesale, Goodwill, Ideas and Innovation, Marketing, Marketing Facilities, Outsourcing, Product Launches, Sales, Startups, UK, West Yorkshire | Tagged audio podcast, Farm shop, Farmer Copleys Farm Shop, Heather Copley, Ice scheme, loyalty points, loyalty scheme, start-up advice, take on the big boys |
By John Walker on April 6, 2011
In a competitive and tough business environment a lot of businesses, big and small, are looking to grow their online presence and using multiple e-commerce channels is often a key part of their strategy. One such channel which is becoming an increasingly important driver of incremental sales and brand awareness for many businesses is Amazon [...]
Posted in Advertising and Marketing Services, Brands, Business Software, Debit and Credit Card Merchant Services, Distribution Channels, E-commerce, Expansion, Financial Services, Ideas and Innovation, Information Technology, Manufacturing, Outsourcing, Payment Processing and Remittance, Retail, Hire and Repair, Sales, Technology, UK, Wholesale | Tagged Amazon |
By John Walker on November 23, 2010
A free seminar provided by Colchester Business Enterprise Agency, Colbea and Mamut Business Software Solutions will be held on 26th November 2010 at COLBEA Business Centre, 1 George Williams Way, Colchester, CO1 2JS.
Topics covered include:
9 - 11 am: For Start Up Businesses & New Businesses - Give Your Business the Start it Deserves!
E-commerce
Contact Management & [...]
Posted in Accounts, Business Software, Contact Management, Customer Support, E-commerce, Essex, Information Technology, Reporting, Sales, Startups, Trade Shows, Seminars and Exhibitions, UK | Tagged Contact Management, E-commerce, Mamut |
By John Walker on July 1, 2010
Some interesting results from a survey by Insurantz.com showing Small businesses are still not catching on to social networking.
Just 16% of UK SMEs embrace sites like Facebook or Twitter as essential tools for business
56% of businesses put off by lack of understanding
65% have yet to see any benefit from social networking
Leisure and tourism industry most [...]
Posted in Brands, Critical Infrastructure, Customer Support, Distribution Channels, Equipment & Operational Resources, Fashion, Trends and Memes, Ideas and Innovation, Information Technology, Internet Services, Market Research, Marketing, Marketing Facilities, Product Research and Development, Recruitment, Reputation, Sales, Surveys, Technology, Telecommunications Services, UK |
By John Walker on March 9, 2010
Barclays has become the first bank in Europe to launch commercial contactless debit cards to its business customers. From March, all Barclays Business customers receiving new or re-issued cards will find that they come with contactless technology as standard. This enables them to pay for low value transactions by holding the card over a reader, [...]
Posted in Debit and Credit Card Merchant Services, Financial Services, Ideas and Innovation, Product Launches, Sales, Technology |
By John Walker on December 9, 2009
The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, introduced a temporary lower rate of VAT in last year’s pre budget report.
There was some speculation that he might have extended this reduction beyond the original term. However, in today’s pre-budget report statement to the House of Commons, he said:
I can confirm that VAT will return to [...]
Posted in Procurement, Professional and Business Services, Sales, Taxation, UK, UK Budget | Tagged Alistair Darling, Chancellor of the Exchequer |
By John Walker on December 6, 2009
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced that the MIT Red Balloon Challenge Team won the $40,000 cash prize in the DARPA Network Challenge, a competition that required participants to locate 10 large, red balloons that had been placed at undisclosed locations across the United States. The MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) team [...]
Posted in Advertising and Marketing Services, Awards and Accreditations, Fashion, Trends and Memes, Human Resources, Ideas and Innovation, Marketing, Marketing Facilities, Multi-Level Marketing, North America, Sales, Technology | Tagged ARPANet, DARPA, MLM, Multi-Level Marketing, Network Marketing |
By John Walker on December 15, 2008
The only ‘crunch’ word at pet food manufacturers, Oscar, is for their pet customers to be tucking into a bowl of healthy food. Repeat business is just another strength of an Oscar franchise opportunity and for pet owners to cut back on vital necessities, at a difficult financial time, may eventually prove to be more [...]
Posted in Economic Cycles, Fashion, Trends and Memes, Food, Drink and Tobacco Manufacturing, Food, Drink and Tobacco Retail, Food, Drink and Tobacco Wholesale, Franchises, Franchising Out, Industry Reports, Sales, UK |
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