Author: Ankita Agrawal

[ad_1] What’s stopping SMEs from doing market analysis? A brand new e-book busts frequent misconceptions. That is an edited extract from ‘Do Penguins Eat Peaches? and different sudden methods to find what your clients need’ by Katie Tucker, left, (Sensible Inspiration Publishing, PB, Oct-23)   The market analysis business has its justifiable share of cussed myths that so simply morph into handy excuses to not do the work. However excuses maintain you again. They consolation you in your individual inaction and so usually ship you on the unsuitable path. Let’s expose just a few, we could? Clients don’t know what…

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[ad_1] SME Journal just lately caught up with Stephanie Elswood, above, entrepreneur and influencer. Right here, she tells us about her enterprise life and begins by speaking about her present ventures. CAROUSE is a spread of non-alcoholic spirits that I’ve been engaged on since 2021. There are two recipes within the vary, DRIFT and UPLIFT and each could be savoured on the rocks, with a easy mixer, or as a part of a cocktail. With a mix of botanicals, pure fruit extracts and adaptogen elements, we have now developed scrumptious recipes, that not solely style great, however can even have…

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[ad_1] Secretary of State for Enterprise and Commerce Kemi Badenoch demonstrated her dedication to small companies final week by formally opening the FSB’s new workplaces in Westminster at 10 Dean Farrar Road. Throughout the opening ceremony, the Secretary of State dedicated to tackling late funds, lowering regulatory limitations and boosting exports – harnessing the 2 halves of her Division, Enterprise and Commerce, to deal with small companies. Ms Badenoch was then launched to and conversed with a number of pioneering small enterprise house owners in attendance. Enterprise and Commerce Secretary Kemi Badenoch stated: “Small companies are the cornerstones of our…

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[ad_1] Greater than 300 enterprise leaders attended the inaugural Ladies in Work Summit, which passed off at London’s Kings Place on Sept 27, co-hosted by Mariella Frostrup, pictured above, presenter and broadcaster, and Dr Nighat Arif, a GP with a specialist curiosity in girls’s well being and household planning and an envoy for the occasion’s charity, Wellbeing of Ladies. The Ladies in Work Summit drew help from senior politicians together with Annaliese Dodds, Shadow Secretary of State for Ladies & Equalities, and MPs Carolyn Harris and Caroline and Annaliese Dodds, Shadow Secretary of State for Ladies & Equalities, stated: “185,000…

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[ad_1] SME Journal catches up with Michael Lowers, Founding father of Neue Water Mike, are you able to begin by telling us about your online business. What was the inspiration behind it? The concept for NEUE got here at a time once I was consulting for a luxurious style label. They’d a busy atelier studio, so a number of fabulous girls got here out and in for fittings with their designer purses in tow. Throughout their becoming, they have been supplied bottled water as a refreshment. On the finish of the becoming, the shoppers would need to take the water…

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[ad_1] By Anish Bogati, under, Safety Analysis Engineer, Logpoint SMEs are more and more a goal for ransomware operators, with one in 4 (26%) focused within the UK final 12 months and virtually half (47%) then paying to regain entry to their knowledge, in keeping with analysis from Avast. Within the present local weather, with budgets stretched and cybersecure personnel laborious to come back by, they’re much more in danger, so the emergence of a brand new and quickly rising ransomware operator centered on SMEs ought to ring alarm bells. 8base emerged in March 2022 and has turn into a…

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[ad_1] The UK authorities has handed £1bn out to small corporations through its begin up loans scheme. The programme, created to assist entrepreneurs begin and scale up their enterprise has now supplied the funding to over 100,000 companies throughout the nation. Delivered by means of the state-owned British Enterprise Financial institution, the Begin Up Mortgage scheme was developed and launched by the federal government in 2012 to assist new and early-stage UK companies with out adequate private funds or help from family and friends to entry inexpensive finance and mentoring help. The scheme has been significantly profitable in supporting entrepreneurs…

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[ad_1] Katie Buckingham was 19 when she began her enterprise, Altruist Enterprises. Ten years on, she has constructed a workforce of specialists who collectively have over 200 years of expertise within the psychological well being coaching subject. Right here, she tells SME Journal about her work trip. Katie, you began your small business whenever you had been 19. What impressed you to do this? I skilled the impression psychological ill-health can have from a younger age. At 10 years outdated, it grew to become clear to me how detrimental psychological well being points may be to people and people round…

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[ad_1] By Damon Anderson, under, UK MD, Employment Hero It’s September. Summer season is over and at dozens of huge employers throughout the UK freshly-credentialed younger persons are within the first month of their “grad programmes”. It’s no shock that so lots of the brightest graduates head to those programmes. They provide structured improvement pathways, intensive assets, and entry to a community of skilled professionals. However there is no such thing as a cause SMEs ought to let bigger organisations take all this wonderful expertise. Tips on how to repair that? A graduate programme of your individual. Why grads might be…

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[ad_1] By Daniel Boyle, under, Head of Lifetime Property Planning & Summertown Workplace, Hedges Legislation What would occur to your corporation ought to the proprietor or final decision-maker grow to be incapacitated resulting from harm or sickness? The reply is more likely to be, “I’m undecided.” That’s as a result of only a few firm homeowners within the UK have a enterprise Lasting Energy of Legal professional (LPA) in place. You usually tend to be accustomed to private LPAs, which appoint an legal professional to make healthcare or monetary selections for somebody, ought to they grow to be incapacitated, however…

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