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BizHelp24 Edition No. 186
Thursday 24th May 2007

All the news and crucial business information and intelligence you need.  The small business news articles for this edition can be viewed below. To view the small business news articles from previous months, please click on the archive pages further down the page.

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BizHelp24 News 186 - Small Business News

 

 
  As a valued BizHelp24 subscriber you have been invited to submit your business or service to our new Business Finder site. This new site will help to promote your business to thousands of potential customers. 

In order for the Business Finder to become one of the most useful business directories we are asking BizHelp24 subscribers to get their products and services listed before we open to all businesses.

 
 

The staff in your business may work hard, but you might be surprised at the amount of time the average office worker wastes. A survey by Office Angels has found that UK offices lose 72 million hours every week, totalling £6.85 billion a year, enough to build nine Wembley Stadiums each year! 

Here are the top office timewasters...

 
  Many small businesses struggle to find skilled and enthusiastic workers; but are you missing out on the abilities of ex-offenders? Despite the bad image that being an ex-offender may give, less than half of those offenders are likely to have been in prison; half only have one conviction, and employment is proven to be the best method of preventing re-offending.

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After the popularity of the last article on the subject, here are some more top business quotes and thoughts from BDO Stoy Hayward’s 33 Thoughts; which features regular instalments of clever and amusing observations from business people past and present, as well as some unexpected sources...

 
 

More businesses across the UK can, from this month, benefit from easier ways to deal with VAT, following changes to one of the schemes aimed at helping small and medium-sized firms to better manage their cashflow. 

Changes to the Cash Accounting Scheme (CAS) mean an extra 56,500 businesses can now benefit from the scheme...

 
  Running a small business is never easy; keeping on top of all the different areas of importance can be a challenge for even the most energetic entrepreneur.
The good news is that we can offer some help with our free BizStart24 software for PC's. BizStart24 features over 40 letters and forms to make the running of your business quicker and easier.

 

Newsletter Archive
Latest Small Business News Archive: Apr to Jun 2007
 

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