Category: Small Business News
Infographic of the Week: Which Social Network is Best for Your Small Business?
Infographics have become quite hot items. And it’s little wonder why – packed with lots of info and eye-catching visuals, they’re a super shareable piece of content. We’re constantly coming across great infographics that condense so much useful information into a digestable visual, and we thought it’s high-time we shared. This week, the infographic that caught (and kept) our attention was found on Visual.ly (the visual content gurus). It centers around social media for small businessRead More
How to Write a Business Plan
Planning for Success You’ve no doubt heard the expression, “Failing to plan is planning to fail.” Many entrepreneurs write a business plan only when they need to secure start-up financing. However, your plan is far more than a document for banks and investors to read; it’s an invaluable roadmap for launching and growing your business. In order to put your business concept on paper, you need to think through and research the many factors thatRead More
Small Business Website with WordPress
Who want to be a self-reliant person by profession of any kind of small business, can explore you with WordPress web life style. Business opportunities are growth faster in the modern edge of internet and computer technology. What is value of your product and brand without work with internet? WordPress web engine are giving such opportunity to open a pioneer concept of your small business. Any kind of small business you hold with the webRead More
Micro financing aims to facilitate small business entrepreneur said Pervaiz Khattak
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister, Pervaiz Khattak said that provincial government has established first Islamic Microcredit Division by providing an amount of rupees one billion to facilitate small business entrepreneurs in the province. He was talking to new Chief Executive of Bank of Khyber, Shamsul Qayum at CM Secretariat here Sunday. He said that the division would work under Bank of Khyber and facilitate about 100 thousands entrepreneurs by Islamic Micro Financing adding the ambit ofRead More
Question and Answer About Small Business with Stephanie Lynch
Stephanie Lynch is the CEO and Founder of OnTheQT.ie, a website dedicated to finding and showcasing the best out of the way places in Ireland. Stephanie talks about how she started and why ‘off the beaten track’ tourism is growing. So what is On The QT all about? We’re a tourism website with a difference. So we promote the places that are out of the way and where people go back again and again. ItRead More
Small Business Column: Budget 2015
As the dust settles, Kehlan Kirwan looks at Budget 2015, and what it may mean for Irish small businesses The intention of Budget 2015 was to make sure that most people felt money was staying in their pockets rather than haemorrhaging as a result of further government money gathering. The exercise worked. Over the ensuing days of review, it became apparent, that for the first time in seven years, people seemed upbeat about what theRead More
Small Business Merchants: Obama Announces EMV Program
President Obama today signed an Executive Order launching the new BuySecure initiative, to help businesses and consumers keep financial data secure. The initiative is designed to reduce identity theft. And there’s important news of interest to small business merchants. The initiative is intended to accelerate the move to EMV chip-based credit cards and charge cards. Speaking at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau this morning, President Obama noted that more than 100 million Americans have hadRead More
Should freelancers and small business owners work for free?
Now that we can all create our own websites, blog about our lives and share our photographs, the price for doing these things professionally has dramatically fallen. Not only that, but being asked to work for free is something most home business owners will have encountered, even those in a profession such as accountancy or the law. It’s a difficult decision to make, bearing in mind you want to balance a good reputation with theRead More
How to find the best bank account for your business
A bank account is a must for all businesses, but the idea of shopping around and getting a good deal on one still seems alien to many of us. It is often quoted that a person is more likely to change their husband or wife than their bank account. But greater liquidity and competition would do wonders for the UK business environment. Entrepreneurs need to look beyond the well-known banks, or at least compare theirRead More
Bitcoin: a beginner’s guide for entrepreneurs
From pints in the pub to seats on private jets, businesses are using this new currency with great success Bitcoin emerged in 2009; it is a peer-to-peer currency created solely by software. It means that one individual or business can pay another without the need to involve a bank. Transactions can take place anywhere in the world and can be concluded very quickly – usually in less than 10 minutes and can potentially involve veryRead More