Business startup? Forget Websites -try blogging.

Blogs are fast, fun and Google-friendly

‘mu:kaumedia’s Sam Deeks on blogs

If you’re starting out in business and need a web site that’s powerful, highly Google-visible and easy to use you ought to think about using a blog.  And if you’re starting out in business in a recession there’s even more reason to think about using a blog. Read more

Iain Scott’s Espresso Shots: Business startups – Cashflow the easy way!

Business startup audio podcast – Entrepreneur’s A to Z

Entrepreneur’s A to Z for business startups: ‘O’ is for overheads

In my video blog, I demonstrated how overheads can squash the life out of your tender young business if you’re not careful. In this podcast, I talk more about what overheads are and how to keep them under control.

Business startup advice helpline – call Enterprise Agony Uncle Iain Scott

Show #5 Wed 7th Dec – Business Startup helpline: Will running a business damage my sex life?

My new Enterprise Agony Uncle is the place to talk about whatever’s on your mind – meet the Agony Uncle here!

Iain Scott’s Espresso Shots: Business startup overheads: are you getting hammered?

Business overheads can hammer your startup if you don’t keep on top of them

Show #4 Sat 29th Nov – Enterprise cafe A-Z: O is for Overheads

Entrepreneurs and business startups: who inspires you?

I was recently asked to do an article on inspiration for entrepreneurs and business start ups and this got tme thinking…

I think there are two types of people that inspire you. The first are those who make you so angry about their approach to life and what they do that you want to change it. That was the case with me when I started teaching – with my first head teacher.  She was so profoundly anti-people that it really inspired me to take a different approach to education which I suppose I have been carrying on with ever since. Read more

Somali Pirates – A Franchise Opportunity?

If you’re thinking of starting a business why not consider a Somali Pirate Franchise?

A couple of days ago, I heard a BBC foreign correspondent talking about how her daughter phoned the Somali pirates – which ended up with the entire edition of the Now Show being, more or less, devoted to jokes about Somali Pirates.  (Yes I listen to Radio 4!)

Now I am not being flippant here but one of the things that really gets a business underway – and particularly a new start business- is publicity.  It’s really hard to get yet those Somali Pirates have had it in spades!  (Should that be ‘buckets and spades’?…no stop). Read more