Manor Royal Know Your Neighbour Event Great to meet last week. We were delighted to exhibit at the 2014 Manor Royal ‘Know Your Neighbour Event’. The day was busy and it was great to exhibit alongside the best local small businesses and the larger stalwarts of the Crawley business community. For anyone who we didn’t
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Business Start-Ups When you are fully engrossed in your start-up business it sometimes difficult to see the woods from the trees. It is also difficult to keep the faith and pursue things when you seem to encounter a barrier at every corner. But there are always solutions and there are never as many obstacles as
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Write A Better Business Plan We have all seen templates, software, programs etc. All claim to make writing a business plan easier and more fun. Fun? Come on, let’s not push things too far… But you can make writing a better business plan easier by getting in the right mindset and by getting the basics
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Having a poor credit record does not mean that you cannot raise finance for your business, what it means is that your options will be less and you may pay more. The second part to this is that you need to know why you have a poor credit record and take action to put it
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We have been involved with the government supported start-up loans scheme for a short while now and are delighted that our first mentored business has successfully raised finance through the scheme! Now, we all like to take credit for things but in this case our involvement was slight, but we it proved to be the
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The Unique Selling Point (USP) is just about the only thing that will differentiate you from your competitors. The difficult thing is in finding your USP, it is not always where you think it is, often it is a thing of marginal fiction, made up, created, dreamed up to make your business that little bit
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We picked up a really interesting article about RBS and their willingness to lend to UK businesses, the article was based around a Sunday Times interview with RBS chairman Stephen Hester. The BBC article can be accessed here. Part of the interview quote was “We are lending as much as we can….we cannot force companies
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More and more UK businesses are now trading across borders, whether that be importing goods from China or Europe, whether that be selling on-line to businesses or consumers in America or beyond. The ease of electronic sales channels, ease of communication and accessible logistics all mean that importing and exporting is no longer the domain
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