http://blwy.co.uk blwy.co.uk - Business News for SMEs Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:07:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The three-way fold brochure is one of the most popular setups, especially with regards to promotional material. These folds can be configured in a variety of ways such as the z-setup or the gate fold. There are other variations but those are the two most popular ones. The best fold entirely depends ... http://blwy.co.uk/making-use-of-three-way-fold-brochures/ If you are thinking about building a website to act as the storefront for your online business you may want to think about outsourcing web design tasks as they can be complex and confusing. Since your web design is one of the most important components that decides if browsers ... http://blwy.co.uk/outsourcing-web-design/ The CBI business group has just issued a new warning that the recovery may be more drawn out than anticipated after a recent survey showed that UK services firms are rebounding in a varied fashion. According to the survey results, business volumes have been able to stabilize for most of the ... http://blwy.co.uk/cbi-warn-recovery-is-coming-but-slowly/ Daryl Willcox Publishing,  has released a useful free guide to help small businesses and startups with DIY marketing and PR. The guide is aimed at businesses who promote themselves in the press. It defines why PR is beneficial, provides a step by step ‘how to’ guide to writing a press release ... http://blwy.co.uk/free-pr-for-small-businesses-guide/ Red Magazine's 20 Under 30 Hot List, has revealed the 20 most influential young women that are shaping our futures. The list features a number of leaders in business including Kirsty MacCarther (30), a director at Heartwood Wealth management and 'the top woman in the boardroom' and Jessica Huie ... http://blwy.co.uk/young-businesswomen-red-magaine-influential-young-women-list/ Despite the UK taxpayer bailing out most of the UK banks, borrowing money through a loan or credit card has never been so expensive with rates averaging 36 times the base rate. In such a climate, it’s hard to see how calls for ‘smarter lending’ by Government and debt charities ... http://blwy.co.uk/credit-card-interest-rates-at-12-year-high-as-mbna-launch-low-rate-deal/ London’s private business firms, especially the minor ones like small office users, and retailers, are going to suffer a major blow financially. The recent decision of the Treasury to impose high tax rates on the firms is severely ill-judged, and going to cause a lot of hardship. The renewed tax rates, ... http://blwy.co.uk/rate-rise-may-be-too-much-for-many-london-smes/ It seems that a lot of people, including those directly involved in the industry, don’t understand the nature of public relations, or PR as it is known.  Ultimately, the goal of PR (as in this link and the logo to the left) is to get the attention of the public ... http://blwy.co.uk/smes-need-effective-pr/ While the yearbook market in the U.S. declines, the trend in the U.K. is going the other way.  AllYearbooks is the brainchild of Jake Gordon, a Bromley-born and raised entrepreneur who seems to have a handle on the yearbook situation. Gordon has travelled extensively, has a sociology background from the University ... http://blwy.co.uk/uk-yearbook-sme-gains-over-us-counterparts/ Recruitment experts, MaxAd,  have launched a nationwide service saving employers up to 90% of their recruitment costs – and many hours of frustrating hassle. Generally, companies seeking to fill a vacancy have until now faced an unenviable choice. They could pay a recruitment agency an eye-watering average fee of £6,000 or ... http://blwy.co.uk/how-smes-can-save-thousands-in-recruitment-costs/