March, 2012

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Confidentiality in Invoice Finance

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What’s your business’ most valuable asset? Throwing this question at several entrepreneurs, you would expect to get responses such as equipment, plant & machinery and freehold premises. However, the largest asset for many businesses, especially SMEs, is often their unpaid sales ledger invoices.

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We may have got the T shirt but it’s still to be earned.

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We don’t know what we don’t know I always chuckle to myself when big companies that sponsor awards to start up and existing small business give, as part of the prize, mentoring or advice from a senior executive in their company. Perhaps it is no laughing matter.

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Social Bizzle – Facebook Help for Small Business

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At the SME Blog we are always keen to promote great ideas that help small businesses. That’s why we want to tell our readers all about this great idea from the folks at Social Bizzle.

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Yes, Ex-Minister,#MicroBizMatters!

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Question Time Just before I flew home to Canada I was asked by my inept agent, Tony Robinson OBE, to chair a ‘Question Time’ type debate at a large micro business conference in his home town of Scarborough. Micro businesses (0-9 employees) are, apparently, quite important to the UK. There are 4.

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Top 5 Tips for Businesses on a Bootstrap Budget

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Top 5 Tips posts from the SME Blog are always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. 1. If you don’t have the space to put an office in your own home, consider sharing one.

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Focus more of your marketing on customer retention

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In my previous post (The Questions I Would Ask If I Were Marketing Your Business – Comment and Part 1) I posed two questions: How much of your current business comes from existing clients and how much comes from new clients?

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The Real Deal – Don’t Accept Anything Less

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Entrepreneur Conferences need a business health warning. November and March are always the biggest months for Enterprise and Entrepreneurship conferences. Last week, I was lucky enough to be in Liverpool for the Global Entrepreneurship Congress.

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