Posted by Step-Up Finance (Business) on Jun 29, 2012 in Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Small Business Blog, Uncategorized | 0 comments
It’s like there’s gold and silver and treasure in one part of my tummy and butterflies and insects in the other part…. was one of my children’s responses when they faced a new experience. Facing something new, that mixture of excitement and nervous anticipation as they confronted something to which they didn’t know what to expect or how they’d get through it - but, because they’d dared to do...
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Posted by Step-Up Finance (Business) on Jun 6, 2012 in Blog, Business, Monthly Musings, Newsletter, Small Business Blog | 0 comments
Bureaucratic Control at the Mindset Maze Inflaming the notion of time costing money, the sense of over-regulation to the point of distraction is a common experience for the small /micro enterprise; any ability to be flexible being taken away when relevance in proportion is replaced by overwhelming bureaucracy. For some, feeling like an overburdened force-fed goose, the business can be perceived...
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Posted by Step-Up Finance (Business) on Jun 6, 2012 in Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Monthly Musings, News, Noteworthy News, Small Business Blog, Uncategorized | 0 comments
The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee has brought about much retrospective - Looking back at the economy and thinking about how businesses were run very differently. There was the similarity of difficult economic times being shared 60 years ago, a time of hardly any FTSE 100, 250 ,or similar indicators, amongst a stock exchange that was similar to a club and difficult to imagine when we’re now in a time...
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Posted by Step-Up Finance (Business) on Jun 2, 2012 in Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets | 0 comments
The British are coming… the British are coming….. 95% of UK Businesses can be described as Micro-enterprises (having less than ten employees) UK Micro-Business accounts for nearly one fifth of the economy UK Micro-Businesses generate £613,266m turnover for the UK economy UK small and medium sized enterprise accounts for 99.9% of the total number of all private sector enterprises in...
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