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Hit The Jackpot With Customer Complaints
Copyright 2005 Cutts Group, llc
Our most powerful instinct is to avoid customer complaints, but they may be the best thing that happens to your business. Here’s why...
Marketing research shows that only 1 out 50 unhappy customers take the time...
How Protected are You? Safeguard Your Small Business from Computer Viruses
The fact is, every time you log onto the Internet, send an email message, open an attachment, or insert a floppy disk, you risk infecting your computer system. Computer viruses are out there just waiting to wreak havoc on your data, documents,...
How to Sell Your Products Without Competition
Selling your products at shows can be difficult when you have a lot of competition. Although some show organizers are careful to have a good mix of vendors, it's not uncommon for other shows to have 20% or more of the booths filled with vendors...
Tips and Tricks To Getting Top Money for your Domain Names
Would you like to be that lucky person who sells their domain for thousands or even a million dollars? It IS possible to find quality domains and resell them for huge amounts of money. The time is ripe for acquiring top domains and selling them....
What's More Important - Time or Money?
I talk to a lot of newbies in my Internet consulting business. It seems as if they all have one thing in common (actually two). They usually telll me - "I can't find the time." OR "I don't have any money to spend."
But what do they do? They...
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Last chance to get Small Firms Loan Guarantees?
The leader of our SFLG team commented this week: “I called the DTi today and they say that the new regulations will be in place by the end of the year and maybe by the end October/beg November. They are working on it now and expect to make an announcement with exact dates of the roll out about September time. The deadline will mean that any companies over 5 years old will need to have their loans approved by the lenders and arrived on the desk of the DTi before the cut off date. Any received after that date will not be likely to get funding. The associated publicity may also lead to a rush of applications which in turn might cause delays.”
Earlier this year the Government welcomed and accepted Teresa Graham's recommendations on the future of the Small Firms Loan Guarantee (SFLG), designed to maximize the support that the scheme offers to small firms. Key points of the recommendations -
• Expanding the lending limits to £250,000 per business for all eligible businesses
• Raising the turnover limit to £5.6m for all eligible businesses
• Reducing bureaucracy by making changes to the operation of SFLG
• Better targeting of SFLG at start ups and young businesses by introducing a maximum age limit for eligibility of three years' trading activity, and reserving a segment of SFLG funding for lenders with a clear focus on high-growth businesses
• Incentivising an increase in SFLG penetration, particularly wider geographic availability throughout banks' network of branches
• Encouraging new lenders to join the scheme
• Allowing successful serial entrepreneurs to benefit by removing the current £250,000 limit on lending to any individual
POSSIBLE ACTION – Apply now while you are still eligible and before possible delays? We are currently averaging 8-10 weeks for approval.
More information www.strategyconsultinglimited.co.uk/sflg.shtml or from Stephanie Dickson on 0845 838 0936
John
J. G. Courtney AIMC, MABS, MInstD
Managing Director
Strategy Consulting Limited
john@strategyconsultinglimited.co.uk
Funding: BUSINESS ANGELS - SMALL FIRMS LOAN GUARANTEES - GRANTS - PROPERTY FINANCE
Strategy: STRATEGY - BUSINESS PLANNING - NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS - WORKSHOPS
Marketing: MARKETING STRATEGY - SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION
About the Author
JOHN COURTNEY
The Managing Director of Strategy Consulting Limited,(www.strategyconsultinglimited.co.uk) John Courtney has been a Company Director for over 20 years, and has been a Non Executive Director for several SME's. John has trained at The Academy of Business Strategy and is also a visiting lecturer on the MBA course at Cranfield University School of Management.
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