Monthly Archives: May 2021

A former employee says she was fired because she uses a trachea tube to breathe.

The Next Big Opportunity for Entrepreneurs

by Ash Barot • May 13, 2021 • 0 Comments

E-commerce for services includes everything from cleaning services to legal services to medical care, beauty, hospitality and beyond.

The 7-Step Process to Launching Your Podcast for Free

by Jay Feldman • May 13, 2021 • 0 Comments

With the right tools and strategy, you don’t need money to launch a successful podcast.

Jonny Wilkinson Q&A – ‘What is it you want from your team?’

by Sophie Wheeldon • May 13, 2021 • 0 Comments

Originally written by Sophie Wheeldon on Small Business
EXCLUSIVE: Rugby icon Jonny Wilkinson is responsible for probably the most exciting moment in the history of rugby, when he dropkicked the winning goal in the last minute of extra time in the final of the 2003 World Cup – handing England a dramatic victory over Australia.
These days Jonny Wilkinson has reinvented himself as a TV sports pundit, covering the Six Nations Championship and Rugby World Cup for ITV, as well as being a motivational speaker.
And he also runs his own small business, founding fermented health drink brand No.1 Living in 2018 to share his passion for what Jonny Wilkinson calls “living foods”, which offers a range of tinned Kombucha drinks, health shots and bottled kefir water.
Here Jonny Wilkinson tells Sophie Wheeldon about lessons he’s learnt about mental resilience, how to be a team leader and why it’s important to stay present.
How do you build mental resilience and stay mentally fit?
The idea of resilience belongs to a certain fixed identity that says, ‘this is who I am, these are my dreams. These things are right, and these things are wrong. This is success, and this is failure’.
If something knocks

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Adapting for disabled customers

by Anna Jordan • May 13, 2021 • 0 Comments

Originally written by Anna Jordan on Small Business
The Equality Act (which replaced the Disability Discrimination Act) affects the way you treat your staff, job applicants and customers. Under the Equality Act, small and medium-sized businesses have to make ‘reasonable adjustments’ so they do not discriminate against disabled customers.
The law has been designed so that you only have to make reasonable changes, but if you fail to do what is reasonable, a disabled person could take legal action against you for treating them unfairly. It could be based on a policy or a one-off action.
What is ‘reasonable’ for my business?
To operate within the law, you should consider the following when deciding what sort of change is likely to be reasonable for your company:

Type of business
Annual turnover
Cost of the adjustment
Disruption to the business while the work is being carried out
Practicality of carrying out the adjustment
Potential benefits to disabled customers

What is reasonable depends on a number of factors, including the resources available to the organisation making the adjustment.
The Equality Act states that you must not treat disabled customers unfairly, no matter what size your company is. If your organisation is not accessible to disabled people, you could be missing out on a lot

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Small business owners who duck out of repaying Covid debt face ban

by Timothy Adler • May 13, 2021 • 0 Comments

Originally written by Timothy Adler on Small Business
Small business owners who wind up their companies to avoid having to repay Covid debt could be banned from being company directors.
Owner-directors found guilty of abusing insolvency procedures to duck out of having to repay Covid debt taken out by their small business could be banned for up to 15 years.
About 1.5m small businesses have taken out Bounce Back Loans through a scheme that offered up to £50,000 interest free for a year.
>See also: Nearly two thirds of Bounce Back Loans could go bad, says government
And the new beefed-up Insolvency Service will be able to investigate retrospectively to already wound-up companies.
The government promised to clamp down on any potential fraud in repaying emergency Covid-19 loans in the Budget earlier this year.
Officials are keen to sew up the insolvency loophole to curb any losses to the taxpayer as banks start to charge interest or seek to recoup loans once the repayment holidays on the government-backed schemes end.
>See also: Half of small businesses will never repay Bounce Back Loans, warn banks
Dissolution via strike-off or voluntary liquidation is only supposed to be used by a small business without a prior insolvency and only when the company