Category: Small Business Information
Small businesses benefit from modernised street trading rules
Reforms to street trading rules will make them both stronger and fairer, a government minister has said. Plans set out in the government’s response to a consultation held last year include amending street trading legislation so that undue restrictions on licences for pedlars and street traders are removed, and character checks to include a search of the police national databases are to be applied consistently across the UK. Also, the requirement for a pedlar to have livedRead More
Small Steps Lead to Big Sales
What are the small steps you can take that will lead you to big sales? Here are some ideas that you can implement to increase your sales: Change your sales process. You know that it’s easier to sell to prospects that are referred to you. Why not change your sales process? That’s your first small step. Ask for a referral after every sale and an appropriate period of time. Of course, this means you mustRead More
How the Cloud Can Transform Your Small Business
Receipts shoved into shoeboxes. Unreadable desk calendars stained with coffee rings. An inbox bursting with hundreds of unread emails… Sometimes, running a small business isn’t pretty. Now, imagine what a seamlessly streamlined business would look like – one where finances are available at the click of a keyboard, inboxes are neatly organized and filing cabinets are a thing of the past. Therein lies the value of the cloud. The popularity of cloud-based software has beenRead More
Contractorship in Engineering and Construction
Contractor is an honorable profession and business. Therefore, it is also profitable small business too. You have trade license for any kind of small business like contractor for engineering and construction work. You are a contractor of engineering and construction type small business (or contractor of export-import and supply products, goods and equipments). No matter, you are male either female but you engage to road, and bridge construction and repairing, small level building construction, andRead More
October 2014 Report: Small business optimism drops
SUMMARY OPTIMISM INDEX September’s Optimism Index gave up 0.8 points, falling to 95.3. At 95.3, the Index is now 5 points below the pre-recession average (from 1973 to 2007). Four Index components improved, six declined. Two declined by 10 points total, accounting for the entire decline in the Index score. Unfortunately, the two that fell drastically were job openings and planned capital outlays, which are directly relevant to GDP growth and hiring. LABOR MARKETS NFIBRead More
Market gardening, a small business for the green minded!
Especially in the last few years there has been great interest in market gardening, a particular type of small farming in which people, usually looking for an alternative lifestyle, produce high value crops from a small area of land. The demand for naturally grown food is soaring. Some sources say by as much as 20% per year. If you are looking at the possibility of opening a small business of your own and you happenRead More
WordPress D5C Web Themes and the Best Accounting Software for Small Business
We have knew many things about that how a start and management system of small business and procedure to develop website for small business by using many WordPress web developers like D5 Creation. But when your business fully launched and your products and services is available into market, you will have to use accounting software. This software should make your work more easy and not consume your valuable times. Today everything is very closely related with computer,Read More
Content, Design and Completeness: 3 Tips for Building a Website for a Small Business
Many small businesses will turn to local developers when it comes to building their first business website, while others will rely on agencies, or even step up and take on the challenge themselves. Today, we want to help those who’re brave enough to be building their own website. Not everyone is able to afford expensive designer and developer work, but even then – it costs hundreds of times less to just learn a common webRead More
Most Popular and Used Small Business themes for WordPress
There are so many things to consider when launching a startup or small business. But creating your website does not have to be a chore thanks to plenty of great WordPress themes available on the market made just for small businesses. These small business themes focus less on blogging, news portal and more on promoting your company and products. So whether your focus is on a physical location or you want to dabble in e-commerce, weRead More
Small Business Owners and the Economists Who Hate Them
Hugging a small business owner, like kissing a baby, is a time-honored way for politicians to broadcast their populist spirit. Supporting programs for Main Street has been a favorite salve for Wall Street bankers seeking to repair reputations wrecked during the financial crisis. Everyone, including 95 percent of the U.S. population, likes small business. Except, perhaps, economists. In recent years, a growing chorus has argued that small business owners are not the job creators they’reRead More