Posted by Ashley Allen
Apple has joined the social network industry with their latest invention, Ping. Ping allows users to build a community of friends, the same way as Twitter does. The social network also builds playlists based on what your 'friends' are listening too. "It's a social network all about music," said Mr Jobs, "We think this will be really popular very fa...
Posted by Ashley Allen
Setting up as a self-employed sole trader is the cheapest, simplest and quickest way to start your own business. There's hardly any paperwork to fill in, there aren't any registration fees to pay. All you need to do is register as self-employed with HMRC. Keeping your accounts is simple too......and then you get to be your own boss! The We Know Bsu...
Posted by Mark Pitts
Odd shaped swimming pools makes the installation of a pool cover difficult, but necessary as a pool cover was one of our ten methods of reducing your heating bills by stopping evaporation and heat lost. In addition, on an indoor pool the addition cost of an Air Handling Unit to protect the building structure can also be reduced. One of the...
Posted by Ashley Allen
Did you all have a good week? We certainly did! As well as changing our trading name to 'We Know Business', we have aslo re-designed the site with a more magazine styled approach. Our roundup of last weeks article includes stats about the retail industry and 3 small bsuiness case studies. We roundup the action from the previous week every Monday,...
Posted by Ashley Allen
Funky Fresh is a creative marketing agency based in Manchester, launched in early 2010 by Liz Fox. The fresh-faced founder has many years experience in events, marketing communications and business development for a number of industries - her passion, ambition and drive, shine through in each and every project. Here's how they use Twitter to market...
Posted by Ashley Allen
For our Twitter case study series we caught up with Julie Morrisroe, Owner of Cosmic Workshop. They are a creative consultancy and are based in the Manchester/Warrington area in the North West of England and here is how they use Twitter to market their small business. Why did you sign up to Twitter? “I signed up to Twitter because it was al...
Posted by Ashley Allen
High street sales increased for the second consecutive month, according to the latest CBI quarterly Distributive Trades Survey. The survey also revealed that retailers predict sales to continue growing into September and they are more optimistic about the general business situation in the coming three months. Over half of the retailers who took par...
Posted by Ashley Allen
Ilkeston-based building company David Allen Brickwork Specialists Ltd was set up in 2009 after being made redudant from their full time job. The Companies Director, David Allen, designed the business' first website using Microsoft Small Business, but that was soon replaced by a professionally-designed site that has helped grow their busines. David ...
Posted by Ashley Allen
Please accept our apologies that our week in review has only been published, we had the weekend off because we was at the V Festival in Staffordshire but we are back now! Below is the roundup of our weeks articles, so grab a coffee and enjoy. Our most popular article comes from 4Networkings Brad Burton, on 'how to make networking work'. We will b...
Posted by Ashley Allen
In my last post I covered setting up your Facebook Fan Page for the first time and the first steps you should take to make sure your Fan Page is optimised to receive your first flurry of fans! By now you should have set yourself up and be posting and promoting your Fan Page away like crazy…but hold on just one second… are you doing i...