Starting your business

Starting your own business: 10 Truths Experts Wont Tell You

I want you to know something. Starting your own business is wonderful. You wake up when you want, work from where you want and never have to sit through a boring-ass ‘weekly planning meeting’ EVER AGAIN. [...]

A Blank Piece of Paper: 5 steps to the life you want

I write this from New Zealand where I have had to quickly come due to the sudden death of my father. Being so far away from my London home, friends, business and the routine of life [...]

Do start-ups need a business plan?

Recently I have been thinking how relevant or rather how-not-so-relevant a business plan is for a start-up in this present economic climate. In my mind a business plan ‘is a document that lays out the plan [...]

Big Surprises for Small Businesses: Part 2

After lots of surprises of our own, we were intrigued to know what had surprised you the most once you had started up your own business. So we asked “what has been your biggest surprise since [...]

Maintaining the balance as a start-up

After being inspired by The Business Start Up Show which took place at Earls Court last week we thought we’d keep you feeling motivated too with this fantastic business start-up article by Viv Oyolu: There’s something [...]

Big Surprises for Small Businesses

After lots of surprises of our own, we were intrigued to know what had surprised you the most once you had started up your own business. So we asked “what has been your biggest surprise since [...]

Have an idea for a business? Brainstorm it!

There has been a sharp increase in the number of small business start-ups in the last few years … it’s the one positive that’s come out of the financial meltdown we suffered two years ago. It’s [...]

It can be lonely being self-employed – but it doesn’t have to be!

Running your own business has a number of benefits, but one of the biggest drawbacks can be a feeling of loneliness and isolation, especially if you have left the corporate world to start up on your [...]

Our Story: Making part-time working our business

With backgrounds in recruitment and business development, and with a keen desire to work flexibly, my business partner and I were very familiar with the part-time employment market. We knew there were large numbers of highly [...]

Niche Marketing: 13 Brilliant Niche Business Ideas

The key to successful niche marketing is to pick a niche small enough to dominate, and large enough to be profitable. It’s an extremely delicate balance that requires both skill and luck. But when you strike [...]

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