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What skills do you have? Could you use them to start a business?
As an online marketplace for over 100,000 small businesses, we pride in encouraging and enabling the virtual way of working – a more efficient, cost-effective and greener way of doing business. Alongside the increasing availability of the internet, many of you out there have embraced the opportunity to work remotely, out of the comfort of [...]
Economy, Employment, Entrepreneurship
Yesterday, 22nd June, chancellor George Osborne announced the much-anticipated new Budget. The cuts and new tax regulations appear to be beneficial on the whole for UK businesses, but not so much for the UK entrepreneur. The small business sector is also expected to benefit by a good number of the changes, especially micro-businesses with up [...]
Economy, Entrepreneurship, General News
Rising fuel prices will hit small firms hard and could cost thousands of jobs across the UK, comparison site Constructaquote.com has warned. Last week, it was revealed that petrol prices across the country had hit a record average high of £1.20 a litre. Experts have since warned that the price of diesel could also be [...]
Employment, Entrepreneurship, General News
Yesterday, 24th of March, Alistair Darling announced new measures of support for the UK Economy’s backbone – the Small Business. These measures not only include £45bn of surplus lending for SMEs (Small and Medium-sized businesses) from state-controlled banks Lloyds and RBS, but also the establishment of a capital growth fund which is to provide investment [...]
Entrepreneurship, Freelance Articles
Do you feel that the moment you have been dreaming about for so long has finally arrived? And are you up on cloud number 9 thinking that the timing just couldn’t be more perfect for starting up your own home business? Well best to step down to the ground, at least for a minute, and [...]
Intuit UK has now revealed results from its recent survey of 1000 small business owners on its Small Business Charter. Below, we list those that we consider to be of most relevance to PeoplePerHour.com’s small business users: • 84% of respondents labeled good customer service as a key contributor to their success of attracting new [...]
Employment, Entrepreneurship, Freelance Articles
The Small Business Britain Charter was launched only yesterday as a platform for small business owners where they can make themselves be heard by the government as well as by elected bodies, banks and the wider business community. Soon, the website will reveal results from a survey of 1000 small business owners, carried out by [...]
Economy, Employment, Entrepreneurship, Freelance Articles
Results of a new extensive report produced by the PCG (Professional Contractors Group) entitled ‘Freeing up Growth’ enhances our belief that freelancer is now the new employee, small is the new big and virtual is replacing traditional. The PCG proclaims the flexibility of an independent, freelance workforce as vital to business prosperity in the UK. [...]
Entrepreneurship, Freelance Articles, General News, New Features
Thanks to all those of you who took our previous 2009 Small Business Survey, PeoplePerHour.com has succeeded in producing a number of insightful Small Business Reviews found on our newly launched PPH Economy », all of which have helped us understand the small business sector, giving us the opportunity to promote the importance of remote, [...]
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