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Women must not rely on partners’ pension

Female businessespeople and other women need to be encouraged to make their own pension provision, it has been claimed. Tom McPhail, head of pensions research at Hargreaves Lansdown, said that women are more likely to face [...]

Female start-up founders offered business growth tips

Growing a business is an achievable ambition if female entrepreneurs remain focused on their end goals, it has been claimed. Writing for WomenEntrepreneur.com, industry commentator Maria Orozova said a number of basic steps come to mind [...]

Successful Businesswomen Scoop BusinessMums Awards

At the BusinessMums Conference this week, Brighton based Yummy Lollies picked up the Best Growing Business BusinessMums Award and London’s Third Door was named Best Start Up. The Awards are an integral part of the BusinessMums [...]

Mothers can operate their own businesses

Women do not need to choose between motherhood and a life in business, it has been claimed. Writing for Entrepreneur.com, Lisa Druxman, chief executive of fitness firm Stroller Strides, said women are capable of balancing their [...]

Home based businesses optimisic during credit crunch

The allure of running a business from home is either attracting more optimistic people than the rest of the business community, or there’s something to be said for the care that goes into running your own [...]

Six obstacles to business growth

It is often said of start-ups that the first year loses money, the second year breaks even and the third yields a profit. All too often, entrepreneurs believe that if they can make it to that [...]

Small businesses are best

Britain’s most dynamic philanthropist Paul Barry-Walsh says that small businesses are the perfect economic model. Paul Barry-Walsh is one of Britain’s most successful IT entrepreneurs, who built up (and sold for £170m) the computer security and [...]

End of an era for entrepreneurs

The stock of small businesses in England and Wales could drop by as much as 150,000 by early 2010, according to Barclays, blowing the froth off the UK’s enterprise culture. The ardour of would-be entrepreneurs has [...]

Small businesses advised to shun experts

Health and safety consultants have come under fire from the government, which is urging small employers to save more than £100m ($179m) a year by shunning fee-charging experts in favour of state-run advice. Shriti Vadera, the [...]

Increase marketing spend to survive

Small business owners intend to combat the economic slowdown by increasing marketing spend and taking pay cuts, according to a survey by the Open University Small Enterprise Research Team (SERT). More than half of the 700 [...]

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