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Zipcar for Business gives you access to thousands of cars and vans, letting you and your team drive on demand while saving money.
Create an account online for free and get your first year for free (normally £99) and up to 29pc off weekday standard rates. You’ll get access to an easy, online account tool and a dedicated account manager. Next, invite your drivers – as many as you like. They’ll need your approval to join your account. Once you’re ready to go, your team can book Roundtrip journeys or take Flex one-way trips for whatever your business needs. Time isn’t a factor here, with access to vehicles 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The package includes business insurance with round-the-clock breakdown cover and the vehicles are Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) compliant.
Through your account you can add and remove employees, track spend, mileage and employee trips and manage your team’s booking and invoices. Zipcar will share operations insights and give you access to more vehicles to help your business grow as well.
You can earmark dedicated vehicles for you and your team at specified times or 24 hours a day. What’s more, Zipcar will
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Tim Campbell: ‘Only two of us knew what The Apprentice was!’
by Anna Jordan • • 0 Comments
Originally written by Anna Jordan on Small Business
Welcome to the second series of Small Business Snippets, the podcast from SmallBusiness.co.uk.
Today’s episode features Tim Campbell, an entrepreneur and the first winner of The Apprentice back in 2005. He discusses his views on apprenticeships and the idea behind one of his more unusual business ventures.
Have a listen to it in the media player below.
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You can also catch our episodes with:
Gousto CEO, Timo Boldt
Entrepreneur and The Apprentice 2018 candidate, Jackie Fast
Investor and former Dragon, Piers Linney
Investment fund manager, Nicola Horlick
Supermodel turned entrepreneur, Caprice
We’ve got podcast episodes from the first series looking at:
How one business owner’s mental breakdown caused her to see trolls from her past
How one entrepreneur hired a videographer to track their every move and build their business brand
How funding a business led one entrepreneur to stress-related alopecia
One entrepreneur’s first professional public speaking engagement
Adapting to UK life and learning English before starting a business
Securing seed funding
Finding the perfect head of customer care
Reaching a £1 million annual rate of return
Boosting client numbers from 30 to 850
Starting a brand new business from scratch
To find out more about Small Business Snippets, you can download the trailer.
If you want to
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Cricket legend Andrew Strauss: 5 tips to boost your business performance
by Timothy Adler • • 0 Comments
Originally written by Timothy Adler on Small Business
EXCLUSIVE: Former England cricket captain Sir Andrew Strauss may not be a test cricketer anymore, but he is still involved in the sport at the elite level.
Strauss, 42, who was appointed chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board committee in September, believes that sports psychology used to bring players to peak achievement should be more widely shared. And that business as well as sports stars can benefit from mindset changes to boost you to top performance.
Since 2018 Andrew Strauss has been CEO of Mindflick, a performance psychology consultancy whose clients include the Queen’s bankers Coutts and the famous Fat Duck restaurant, run by chef Heston Blumenthal, as well as Olympic athletes and Manchester City football club.
>See also: 7 biggest challenges SMEs face – and how to overcome them
When he was England team captain, Andrew Strauss worked closely with Mindflick head of consultancy Dr Mark Bawden, who was head psychologist for Team GB at the London 2012 Games.
“It’s a natural evolution,” says Strauss. “In my last four years of playing professional sport, I worked very closely with Mark, really trying to get the best out of myself individually but also others in the
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General Election 2019: small business policies that could win your vote
by Anna Jordan • • 0 Comments
Originally written by Anna Jordan on Small Business
The 2019 General Election is only a couple of weeks from now – and it’s one of the most heated votes in years.
Questions have been asked around who the real party for small business and what exactly is each one promising.
To help you de-fog these quandaries, we’ve sifted through the manifestos and pulled out key policies relating to entrepreneurs and small businesses.
The main areas we’ve covered are:
Late payments
Business rates
Skills and apprenticeships
Self-employed support
Employee rights
Finance
Other noteworthy policies
Links to each party’s manifestos are included in the table for you to take a further look.
Late paymentsBusiness ratesSkills and apprenticeshipsSupport for the self-employedEmployee rightsFinanceOther noteworthy policies
ConservativeClamp down on late payments.‘Fundamental review of the system’ to reduce business rates.Introduce a £3bn national skills fund. This fund will provide
matching funding for individuals and
SMEs for high-quality education and
training.
Improve the working of the apprenticeship levy.
Invest almost £2bn to upgrade entire further education college estate. Will have 20 institutes of technology, connecting high-quality teaching in science, technology, engineering and maths to business and industry.
Launch a review into better support for the self-employed – improving access to finance and credit (especially mortgages), making tax system easier to navigate and how better broadband can boost
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Gousto CEO, Timo Boldt: ‘We use the two types of algorithm Netflix is using’
by Anna Jordan • • 0 Comments
Originally written by Anna Jordan on Small Business
Welcome to the second series of Small Business Snippets, the podcast from SmallBusiness.co.uk.
Anna Jordan meets Timo Boldt, founder and CEO of recipe box service, Gousto. In this episode they talk ethics, personal data and the importance of managing yourself before you manage others.
Have a listen to it in the media player below.
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You can also catch our episodes with:
Entrepreneur and The Apprentice 2018 candidate, Jackie Fast
Investor and former Dragon, Piers Linney
Investment fund manager, Nicola Horlick
Supermodel turned entrepreneur, Caprice
We’ve got podcast episodes from the first series looking at:
How one business owner’s mental breakdown caused her to see trolls from her past
How one entrepreneur hired a videographer to track their every move and build their business brand
How funding a business led one entrepreneur to stress-related alopecia
One entrepreneur’s first professional public speaking engagement
Adapting to UK life and learning English before starting a business
Securing seed funding
Finding the perfect head of customer care
Reaching a £1 million annual rate of return
Boosting client numbers from 30 to 850
Starting a brand new business from scratch
To find out more about Small Business Snippets, you can download the trailer.
If you want to listen to the podcast elsewhere, it’s
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Brexit extension: ensuring your business is ready for the new deadline
by Jo Thornley • • 0 Comments
Originally written by Jo Thornley on Small Business
Brexit uncertainty is now very much, in US parlance, a ‘known unknown’ which will affect everyone in the UK in a variety of ways.
The good news is that now that the deadline has been pushed back to 31 January, you have more time to prepare.
Brexit opportunities and challenges
Preparing for withdrawal from the EU should be slightly easier for a small to medium-sized business simply because their smaller size means they can often respond faster and more flexibly than their corporate competitors. So as an astute entrepreneur you should try to stay alert to any such niche opportunities Brexit may send your way.
However, your chief concern will be to weather Brexit uncertainty as best you can. To do this successfully, your first and most vital step must be to keep yourself informed about political and economic Brexit developments at both macro and micro levels.
This will require 360-degree vigilance because some issues may directly affect your business trading, perhaps in the form of new legislation. Other issues may indirectly affect your cash flow by impacting upon your supply chain or by altering the priorities of your customer base.
Elsewhere, there may be other changes which affect
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Jackie Fast: ‘I can say that I didn’t love being in The Apprentice house’
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Originally written by Anna Jordan on Small Business
Welcome to the second series of Small Business Snippets, the podcast from SmallBusiness.co.uk.
Anna Jordan talks to Jackie Fast, an entrepreneur, author, speaker and candidate on The Apprentice in 2018. We discuss building a business from home and how to get started with sponsorship.
Have a listen to it in the media player below.
You can also catch our episodes with investor and former Dragon, Piers Linney; supermodel turned entrepreneur, Caprice; and investment fund manager, Nicola Horlick.
Your browser does not support the
audio element.
We’ve got podcast episodes from the first series looking at:
How one business owner’s mental breakdown caused her to see trolls from her past
How one entrepreneur hired a videographer to track their every move and build their business brand
How funding a business led one entrepreneur to stress-related alopecia
One entrepreneur’s first professional public speaking engagement
Adapting to UK life and learning English before starting a business
Securing seed funding
Finding the perfect head of customer care
Reaching a £1 million annual rate of return
Boosting client numbers from 30 to 850
Starting a brand new business from scratch
To find out more about Small Business Snippets, you can download the trailer.
If you want to listen to the podcast elsewhere, it’s available on iTunes, Google Play, SoundCloud and Spotify.
Remember
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What small businesses think of the four-day working week
by Anna Jordan • • 0 Comments
Originally written by Anna Jordan on Small Business
Labour announced a raft of proposals during its party conference this year, including a reduction in the standard working week to 32 hours (four days) within the next decade.
The four-day working week isn’t a new idea, but it still sparks as much debate as ever.
Some see it as the panacea to our continuing productivity issues. In Britain we’ve long been lagging behind, which seems unusual as we have some of the longest working hours in Europe. Not by a huge amount, though – 42.5 hours a week versus 41.2 hours across the continent on average.
It then makes sense that most of the country’s workers would like to see a shorter working week.
YouGov research shows that 63pc of British people are in favour; we’re among the most enthusiastic of the seven nations surveyed (Britain, Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway). Additionally, almost a third (31pc) think it would make us more prosperous, compared to 19pc who believe the opposite (34pc say it would make no difference). Meanwhile, 45pc believe four-day weeks would make us more productive, compared to 21pc who think we’d be less productive.
The most striking stat is how much happier it
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What small businesses think of the four-day working week
by Anna Jordan • • 0 Comments
Originally written by Anna Jordan on Small Business
Labour announced a raft of proposals during its party conference this year, including a reduction in the standard working week to 32 hours (four days) within the next decade.
The four-day working week isn’t a new idea, but it still sparks as much debate as ever.
Some see it as the panacea to our continuing productivity issues. In Britain we’ve long been lagging behind, which seems unusual as we have some of the longest working hours in Europe. Not by a huge amount, though – 42.5 hours a week versus 41.2 hours across the continent on average.
It then makes sense that most of the country’s workers would like to see a shorter working week.
YouGov research shows that 63pc of British people are in favour; we’re among the most enthusiastic of the seven nations surveyed (Britain, Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway). Additionally, almost a third (31pc) think it would make us more prosperous, compared to 19pc who believe the opposite (34pc say it would make no difference). Meanwhile, 45pc believe four-day weeks would make us more productive, compared to 21pc who think we’d be less productive.
The most striking stat is how much happier it
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Piers Linney: ‘I was one of the first to do real tech on Dragon’s Den’
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Originally written by Anna Jordan on Small Business
Welcome to the second series of Small Business Snippets, the podcast from SmallBusiness.co.uk.
In this episode, Anna Jordan chats to Piers Linney, an entrepreneur, investor and former Dragon on Dragon’s Den. We discuss the most memorable pitches from the show as well as Piers’ first foray into entrepreneurship.
Listen to it in the media player below.
Your browser does not support the
audio element.
You can also catch our episodes with supermodel turned entrepreneur, Caprice and investment fund manager, Nicola Horlick.
We’ve got podcast episodes from the first series looking at:
How one business owner’s mental breakdown caused her to see trolls from her past
How one entrepreneur hired a videographer to track their every move and build their business brand
How funding a business led one entrepreneur to stress-related alopecia
One entrepreneur’s first professional public speaking engagement
Adapting to UK life and learning English before starting a business
Securing seed funding
Finding the perfect head of customer care
Reaching a £1 million annual rate of return
Boosting client numbers from 30 to 850
Starting a brand new business from scratch
To find out more about Small Business Snippets, you can download the trailer.
If you want to listen to the podcast elsewhere, it’s available on iTunes, Google Play, SoundCloud and Spotify.
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