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Five tips on how to make the most of a business break

Five tips on how to make the most of a business break

When you start and grow a business, you’re involved each day in the detail of running the business; perfecting customer service, ensuring positive cashflow, making new products, and so on. This is all good and right [...]

5 Tips for Graduates Going Self-Employed

5 Tips for Graduates Going Self-Employed

A recent feature in The Guardian ran with the headline: ‘Graduates warned of record 70 applicants for every job’ The next line went: ‘Class of 2010 told to consider flipping burgers or shelf stacking to build [...]

Five questions to come up with one idea

Five questions to come up with one idea

Whether you’re thinking of an idea to start off in business or mulling over how to grow, Emma Jones suggests ideas will come from asking five straight questions. Starting out If you’d like to start a [...]

5 businesses you can start for/with the neighbours

5 businesses you can start for/with the neighbours

A recent report (Co-operative Streets report) reveals the UK is less than half as neighbourly as it was three decades ago with 49% of Brits saying people know more about their favourite celebrity than they do [...]

4 ways to grow your business

4 ways to grow your business

Are you wondering how to grow your business and develop it in a way so it’s not wholly reliant on you? Have you considered outsourcing/franchising/productising as a way to achieve that growth? Emma Jones outlines the [...]

8 steps to becoming a 5 to 9’er

8 steps to becoming a 5 to 9’er

There are over 5 million people doing it and today a book is launched to help many more follow in their footsteps. We’re talking about ‘Working 5 to 9’ which involves holding down a day job [...]

Ten applications to connect your home office with the world

Ten applications to connect your home office with the world

With flights grounded and international travel on hold, serviced office company Regus, is expecting a rush of people to its centres from where they will video-conference and tele-commute with the world. Emma Jones of Enterprise Nation [...]

10 sites for selling your wares

10 sites for selling your wares

Whether you’re selling knowledge from your head or products crafted by your own hands, there are online platforms to help you reach an audience of customers and make sales. Emma Jones of Enterprise Nation offers a [...]

The art of PR

The art of PR

You have a new project to launch, a new product coming to market, or something to tell the world. The plan is to communicate through PR but first off, you need a plan! Emma Jones of [...]

Is party planning the right opportunity for you?

Is party planning the right opportunity for you?

If you would like to start your own business but just don’t have an idea of what that business could be, why not consider a home business franchise/party plan opportunity. Emma Jones of Enterprise Nation sets [...]