The BBC reports: “A £20bn government scheme to try to boost bank lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has been launched by the chancellor. Under the National Loan Guarantee Scheme (NLGS), such businesses will be able to access loans with interest rates one percentage point lower than those available outside the initiative. Barclays, Santander, [...] Read More Of This Article...
Crowdfunding | Could It Work For Your Business?
This last week, I ventured into the world of Crowdfunding via IndieGoGo to try and raise the dosh needed for the Brighton Jazz Festival to put on a great headline act, pay for the PR and provide a cash prize and trophy for the winner of the “New Jazz Composition” competition. I first heard about [...] Read More Of This Article...
BBC Money | Couples | Making Money & Staying In Love
Tonight BBC Money continues it’s series on Money & Wealth Creation with a programme about couples and their money. This should be fascinating! Here’s an extract: “The second episode in Vanessa Engle’s three-part documentary series exploring our personal attitudes to money. This film about couples looks at how money affects our personal relationships. The top [...] Read More Of This Article...
BBC Money Programme | Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
What Is A Pension Anyway?
Lots of people search on Google “what is a pension” and it’s an interesting question when you stop and think about it. My ex-business partner Judith Morgan has just written a BRILLIANT post about Pensions & Sipps – I urge you to go and read it now –and it got me thinking “What Is A [...] Read More Of This Article...
Double Dip Recession | How To Survive & Thrive In Tough Times
Leafing through my local paper after my run fast walk earlier, I came across an article about the double dip recession and about how many more people are saying they would really struggle if the economy DID take another dip. A survey from personal finance website unbiased.co.uk says that more than 15 million adults in [...] Read More Of This Article...
A Business Success Formula | Multiply Your Effort By 10
I was talking to a client the other day who was asking me how much more she would have to do to make her business a huge success? She’s really getting there now after a few tough years, this year has been particularly great but she has big ambitions and wondered if there was a [...] Read More Of This Article...
Top 10 Entrepreneurs | Female | UK
Money.co.uk share the Top 10 Female Entrepeneurs In the UK Today… “The likes of Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and the Google guys are well publicised. And while the figures suggest it’s still very much a man’s world when it comes to billionaires (the top 10 richest people in the world are all men), the world’s [...] Read More Of This Article...
Free Webinar | Why You Need To Register For Thursday Evening At 7.30pm
” Workshop Registration: How To Buy Gold & Silver Up To 20% BMV AND Cash-Flow Gold & Silver For A PASSIVE Monthly Income “ We ran this webinar workshop a couple of days ago, but because it was a bit short notice and some people had family stuff to do, it being Saturday morning and [...] Read More Of This Article...
Crowdcube Success Changes Business Finance History
As someone who’s rarely been able to raise bank finance for any of my business ideas (hey! a clue right there about their viability!) I’ve been following the story of alternative business finance idea “crowdsourcing” with great interest since Judith Morgan first introduced me to the idea. See below for a roundup of business finance [...] Read More Of This Article...
