As the old adage goes: there’s more than one way to skin a cat. The same goes for raising the profile of your business too, for which these days there are multiple channels.
The two most obvious and effective by far are paid for advertising, or PR. But which is better?
With advertising you get [...]
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Figures released this week by the Engineering Employers Federation painted a healthy picture of UK exports from the manufacturing sector.
The data showed exports in this crucial sector have grown by 36% since 2009, with similar growth forecasts for 2012 as in the intervening years.
Some might say that’s hardly surprising with the rapid growth in the [...]
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Flexible maternity/paternity leave, executive pay crackdown, slashing business red tape, and splitting banks retail and investment portfolios – not to mention the finer points of the Groceries Code Adjudicator. All issues due a mention in today’s Queen’s Speech.
Billed already in some quarters as a Queen’s Speech for families, it’s quite clear that there’s plenty in [...]
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The Government last week updated a list of public sector procurement projects worth a mind-boggling £70 billion throughout the course of the next five years.
We fully endorsed the Coalition’s plans when it first announced in the autumn their plan to encourage more SMEs to take part in the tender process for state contracts.
This process [...]
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Businesses and the Government have been given a clear indication that late payment is a serious threat affecting the profits, growth and even survival prospects of many firms.
Poor payment, most often originating from large corporations at the top of multiple supply chains, was discussed by politicians, civil servants, business and media representatives at summit held [...]
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Last week we wrote a letter to the Government, which is currently consulting on the introduction of a ‘late night levy’ for those businesses which cater for the UK’s evening economy.
The levy – we would call it a stealth tax – will see any firm which opens past midnight being clobbered with a bill to [...]
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Many a column inch during the last few years has been devoted to the saga of economic doom and gloom – both global and domestic woe.
With the economic downturn blending seamlessly in to an age of austerity helping to create a general UK-wide malaise, it’s perhaps understandable why.
But, with the prospect of a potential [...]
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Today’s an important day for the young people and for businesses of Great Britain. We have launched the Youth Contract, a package of support incentivising employers up and down the country, to recruit young people.
Work Experience means an employer can take on a young person 18-24 years old, for 2-8 weeks, while the Government continues [...]
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Can you imagine the uproar if fuel duty was increased by a third over night: petrol, said the Government, was to rise by 30%, while diesel would go up by 39% on April 30.
There would be outrage. Outrage because fuel, for most, is an inescapable part of the weekly budget.
Fortunately, that’s pure fantasy. But change ‘fuel’ [...]
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Touted by the Chancellor himself during his dispatch box introductions as a Budget which would ‘unashamedly back business’, owners of SMEs may well have got quite excited.
Was this going to be a sea change moment with a fiscal road map to light the UK’s economic touch-paper?
Well, no, not really, and certainly not for small businesses. [...]
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