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Audio Podcast - Farm shop loyalty scheme helping local businesses take on the big boys

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 [...]

Listing Your Products Online With Amazon

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 [...]

Free Business Seminar - Essex - Build A Better Business

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 & [...]

SMEs still not catching on to social networking

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 [...]

Contactless arrives for business customers

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, [...]

Alistair Darling confirms return to 17.5 percent VAT on January 1st 2010 in Pre-Budget Report

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 [...]

MIT Team Uses Multi-Level Marketing Principles to win DARPA $40,000 Treasure Hunt in just 9 hours

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 [...]

Growth Industry - Pet Food in the UK

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 [...]

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