CASE STUDY Nine steps to crowd funding

Tony Pearce, serial company starter and entrepreneur talks us through his nine steps to using crowd funding – and offers some salutatory warnings about the risks, workload and rewards. Watch and learn… Tony Pearce, serial company starter and entrepreneur talks us through his nine steps to using crowd funding – and offers some salutatory warnings […]

Diary of a Start Up: episode 4 — getting the tech right

As we continue to follow our pet start up Distinctive Wash Ltd, we find founder and CEO Louise Knowler reflecting on how, if you want to launch any business, getting the online presence and technology right is something that has to be sorted from day one. As we continue to follow our pet start up […]

Diary of a Start Up: episode 3 – going international

Continuing our video diary of the trials and tribulations of a start up, Louise Knowler, founder and CEO of Distinctive Wash Ltd, explains how selling online made her international from day one and how that was both challenging AND rewarding

Small Business Saturday – what’s in it for you?

With the inaugural UK Small Business Saturday a rip-roaring success, we talk to Chuka Umunna MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills – and founder of the cross-party Small Business Saturday Group – about why he set it up, what it hopes to achieve and what’s in it for small businesses. We […]

Diary of a Start-up: episode 2 – Marketplaces

We continue our look at how Louise Knowler, founder of Distinctive Wash Ltd, creator of the UK’s first designer fragrance washing powder for men, is developing her business and how she got going in marketplaces. We continue our look at how Louise Knowler, founder of Distinctive Wash Ltd, creator of the UK’s first designer fragrance […]

Top tips for converting abandoned carts in the “golden quarter”

James Critchley and Tim Renew from CloudIQ offer three tops tips to help SMEs reclaim abandoned shopping carts in the run up to Christmas using the power of email – oh and don’t forget to go mobile James Critchley and Tim Renew from CloudIQ offer three tops tips to help SMEs reclaim abandoned shopping carts in […]

No need for HTML5 skills

Hedley Aylott, co-founder & CEO of Summit outlines how he has developed a visual build tool to create flows in Magento — obviating the need for HTML5 skills — as well as helping SMEs ramp up page performance

DIARY OF A START UP: Episode 1 – marketing

Louise Knowler started Distinctive Wash Ltd, the UK’s first designer fragrance washing powder for men. Louise started the business after a brain wave and has it up and running, but there is still much to learn… And she is kindly letting us follow her journey through getting her SME off the ground.

Making Charlotte Tilbury look good London 2013

Jon Woodall, MD of Space48, talks about the challenges of taking SMEs online and how those skills have been put to use with make-up artist extraodinaire Charlotte Tilbury

Revolutionising POS for SMEs London 2013

James Beard, head of sales and business development at Sage Pay and their partner Juan Ignacio de Paul, CEO, eBizMarts, explain how, working with Magento, they are looking to revolutionise POS systems for SMEs