May,2009

Women not disproportionately affected by the recession

Female entrepreneurs are not being disproportionately affected by the recession, a survey has found. The Impact of the Recession on Women’s Enterprise – the report commissioned by the Women’s Enterprise Task Force, found that when analysed [...]

Protection for Small Companies against Credit Card Fraud

A new programme has been made available to small companies who accept credit card payments to help protect them and their customers against credit card fraud. The programme, from insurance group RSA, provides companies with the [...]

Getting a Handel on German Wine with Wine Couture

June 9. London. Come and discover just how great German wine can be. Wine Couture, the UK’s first wine club for women, is holding a tutored tasting at the German Embassy in Belgrave Square of wines [...]

Why do we procrastinate?

It is time we take a look at procrastination, a subject very dear to my heart and a bad habit I am finding myself struggling with today (it is strange how appealing the ironing can look). [...]

Free tickets to Topher Morrison – Winning the game of money

June 22, 23 or 24, London. What if the only way to truly get ahead was to treat money as a game. Clear rules need to be followed, there are strategies for winning and most of [...]

Julia Macmillan – toyboywarehouse.com

It all started as a bit of a joke but the success of UK website Toyboywarehouse.com is no laughing matter as it prepares to go international. London artist and entrepreneur Julia Macmillan was getting bored with [...]

Turning a great reputation into business

In the last of our three-part series on how to build a great reputation for your business, we look at the real ‘crunch’ point of the whole process – generating business from all your efforts. Whilst [...]

Sian Sutherland, Director of Mama Mio

Launched in 2006, Mama Mio started out as a range for pregnant women and then expanded to encompass all women. Mama Mio have 600 stores worldwide and are in six countries, a range of luxury hotels [...]

Safia Minney – People Tree: Ethical fashion

Safia Minney is at the forefront of the move to persuade the fashionistas amongst us to shop ethically. Safia is passionate in her belief that the uninformed decisions we make about where we buy our clothes are having [...]

Using social networks to your advantage

The Internet is an invaluable tool for small and medium businesses alike. For very little or no money, the web and its social networking platforms provide entrepreneurs with access to an international market. The Internet is [...]

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