Nottingham-based The Money Shop has announced its pawnbroking business is experiencing a resurgence and that it will be opening 50 new stores and creating 330 new jobs in 2012.
The Money Shop currently has ten stores in the East Midlands
The short-term lender says this month, which is traditionally the busiest time of the year for the [...]
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With rough trading conditions and major high street and online retailers going into administration, using the internet effectively to help your business sell is now more essential than ever.
Thanks to more than seven out of ten internet users currently being online buyers and with the gap narrowing all the time, shop owners simply can’t afford [...]
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Stephen Boyle, Head of Group Economics at RBS, discusses the crucial factors that will determine economic performance during 2012 and provides his thoughts on how any recovery will take shape:
2011 saw the recovery all but run out of steam, unemployment crept up, and the Bank of England is loosening, not tightening, monetary policy with quantitative easing.
What [...]
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Entrepreneur Kavita Oberoi has launched a new worldwide virtual office and assistant service aimed at start-up and well established businesses that require an address and offices in locations in other cities in the UK and across the world.
Virtual Office, part of the entrepreneur’s expanding business portfolio, provides businesses with an office address at some of [...]
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Businesses are increasingly realising the importance of apps as a business tool. Pete Whelan of application development company Infonote explores the growth of applications and has some tips for their development.
The way that companies are communicating with customers, doing business and marketing themselves has been undergoing a major change over the past couple of years. [...]
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Innovative small firms across the East Midlands are being encouraged to show they’ve got what it takes to “export for growth” by entering a new competition run by UK Trade & Investment (UKTI).
The new Exporting for Growth prize was officially launched by the Prime Minister and Lord Green, Minister for Trade and Investment. The competition [...]
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62% of entrepreneurs in the Midlands say the Government should reward SMEs with tax breaks, according to a new report commissioned by RSM Tenon.
As part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, RSM Tenon commissioned the report to establish the state of the UK’s environment for entrepreneurs. The report, Lonely at the Top, to be released later this [...]
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Francine Pickering of Clarity Marketing highlights what makes a marketing winner stand apart from a marketing loser and what that means for your business in tough times
“Marketing is just another word for advertising.” Right? Wrong – and a marketing winner knows it.
It is, however, a common and unfortunate misconception that marketing is only about promoting [...]
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