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Monday, 23 February 2009

Panorama: Are banks doing enough to support small businesses?

I don’t work for the BBC, but I saw this and thought it could be worth watching and worth telling my blog readers about it too. It’s a Panorama programme looking at small businesses like ours. More than 100 small businesses are shutting up shop each day, according to the Federation of Small Businesses, which predicts some 30,000 firms will have gone bust by the end of this year. In an attempt to turn the tide, the government has come up with proposals including the £1.3bn Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme to throw small businesses a lifeline. Dragon's Den star Theo Paphitis, examines whether the banks are doing enough to support small businesses.

Watch it tonight: Monday 23 February BBC One 8.30pm: Panorama: Credit Where It's Due

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Wednesday, 23 January 2008

Small Business Week – Has it Been Useful?

It was Small Business Week a week or so back. Has that been valuable - has anyone seen anything that would be useful or have any kind of impact on small businesses? If you have set up your own business then you’ll understand that it is a huge learning curve – no amount of advice or support can prepare you for that. It seems to me, however, that the State of the Small Business Nations research report, highlighted during the week, didn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know - small businesses feel they lack expert knowledge in a number of areas, finance (37 per cent), HR (30 per cent) and sales and marketing (25 per cent). I’m not surprised at those results – are you?

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