The Microbusiness Entrepreneur
A blog for people with big ideas running 1 or 2 person businesses
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You wouldn’t expect to be able to sit in a car and drive it without learning first, would you? It’s the same with your small business. You need to go into business with a certain level of education covering how to plan, run and market it otherwise you might make expensive mistakes right from the [...]
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Step 1: Planning Come up with product ideas Evaluate them Plan a business around the best Set up your company Prototype and test your product/service Step 2: Build the business Build your product/service Build the website that supports it Get payment processing and support systems into place Step 3: Market the business Optimise your site [...]
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Click here to listen Who’d be a school/college/university leaver today? Well, I would for one as the range of possibilities open to people these days is exponentially greater than when I left school. At that time (in the 1980s), on leaving college you had two choices: get a job or go onto University (at which [...]
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If, like me you get hundreds of emails a day (in my case from 5 main accounts) then you need a way to effectively handle them. Having spent years struggling with keeping most messages in my inbox (which ended up with thousands of entries) I tried “managing” my inbox down to zero in Thunderbird by [...]
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Be gentle with me guys: this is my first video blog entry: I will get better and there is some good stuff in this!
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…I wish I knew the answer to that. At the end of the day, the client is the one with the money and they therefore hold the ultimate whip hand. The bigger your reliance on an individual client or a small group, the greater their control over you and a few clients find themselves unable [...]
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One of the most often asked questions is “How do I come up with an idea for my small business?”. Bear in mind, from the start, that coming up with an idea is just the first step in a long process – once you have an idea, you need to research it before deciding to [...]
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If you’re looking for inspiration when it comes to starting and running a business I suggest you download this PDF, flip to a random page, read and consider… What Matters Now …by some of the most important thinkers both in and out of business.
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Leo Babauta, creator of zenhabits, has written a fantastic book called The Power of Less which I highly recommend to anyone feeling overwhelmed in their working or home lives. Central to the book is the idea that you reduce stress and increase productivity by consciously identifying and working on your truly essential projects and to [...]
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Choosing a name for your business can be one of the most important, and frustrating, of tasks. It’s especially important for internet businesses or businesses where the website is an important part of the marketing effort (in other words, most businesses). Why? It’s likely that your potential customers will look for you by typing a [...]
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There are, broadly speaking, two types of business: Sole Traders and Limited Companies. Sole Traders Essentially this means that you and the business are one. From the point of view of Revenue and Excise, it is you that owes tax on the income generated by the business – you complete a personal tax return at [...]
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