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January 16, 2018 by Julie Stanford Leave a Comment

Time for change

New year, new way of working! After fifteen years of selling all our products from just this one website, we’ve realised that it might all be a bit complicated for our retail customers and professional clients! So, we’ve made the decision to split this website into two new websites, aimed at two separate groups:

1  Essential-Business.co.uk – this website, aimed at business owners and start ups

When you’re setting up and running a business, it can be difficult to know where to start, let alone how to keep going. The retail products and free resources on this site will guide you through the business maze, and help you to run your business in the best possible way. Our books, workbooks and online courses are clearly written by people who understand how it feels to run a business, and this video shows you just what makes our approach to business learning so very different. Take a look around.

 

2  Essential-Business-Publishing.co.uk – our new website for professional organisations

As a business support organisation, advisor, mentor or enterprise educator, you face constant pressure to provide high-quality information and training for your clients or students, with the ongoing challenge of funding those services. When you win contracts, you have to be fast on your feet, providing the contracted services and materials at the right quality, often with little time to create them. We can adapt any Essential Business publication to suit your needs – from simply adding your logo to our materials to including information about your organisation and services. We can also create custom covers to your specification. Visit our new professional’s website to find out more.

 

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January 5, 2017 by Julie Stanford Leave a Comment

Join in the debate

Welcome to the Essential Business blog pages. Here you’ll find articles, comments and opinion pieces by Julie Stanford and Marianne Whitfield, directors of Essential Business and, from time to time, guests whose opinions we value.

You can comment on any of the articles and we are always interested in hearing what you have to say. There’s no such thing as absolute truth in business (or in life!) it’s all a matter of opinion – and the more opinions, the better.

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February 4, 2015 by Marianne Whitfield Leave a Comment

Policy makers and dual entity

Blog-avatars-marianneI attended an interesting event at the RSA yesterday which focused on the needs of self-employed people in the UK.

The event was attended by a wide array of individuals, from MPs and economists to micro-business owners and freelancers.

There were a number of panel events during the day, and some enlightened discussions, but one issue stuck out for me throughout. All of the rhetoric and statistics around self-employment focus on the business, not the person who runs the business. [Read more…]

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January 28, 2015 by Marianne Whitfield Leave a Comment

Scratch for business

Blog-avatars-marianneA few years ago, when I was looking to turn my young twins into a mini geeks, I discovered a fantastic tool for teaching kids to code.

The Scratch project was initiated back in 2003 by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab. I started using Scratch in 2009 and have spent five happy years watching my son and daughter learn how to create simple games and animations, without having to program one ‘real’ line of code. (Okay, my son is a lot more interested and engaged in this than my daughter, but I’m working on her!) [Read more…]

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January 18, 2015 by Marianne Whitfield Leave a Comment

Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble

Blog-avatars-marianneIn 2014, a record number of new companies were formed in the UK, according to the national campaign group Start Up Britain.

‘Record numbers’ of anything results in two different media reactions — the “Wow, isn’t it amazing, aren’t we doing well” and the “Oh no, that’s far too many, what are we going to do about it”.

An additional 580,000 companies registering within one year might, to some, seem like an achievement. To others, like me, it seems like a growing bubble that will some day burst. [Read more…]

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