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  • Online Business Ideas: How to Start a Successful Online Business?

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    What’s an Online business and why you need this online business ideas? With recent global economic recession, people have faced tough times to retain their jobs as a result Of lot of changes been noticed in the corporate world. It is hard to become employed at this times and it is almost close to impossible to…

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  • How Branding Will Help Your Business

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    How Branding Will Help Your Business Branding is not a luxury for the biggest brands you know – Coca Cola, Google and MacDonald’s. It is an essential piece of marketing that a business of any size needs to grasp to take advantage of repeat business and to let customers know where you are. It’s how they…

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  • National Diversity Awards

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    The National Diversity Awards is a prestigious black tie event held in The Midland Hotel, Manchester on the 21st September, 2012, which celebrates the achievements of people from underrepresented backgrounds and also recognises contributions made by individuals or groups from diverse communities. The awards are sponsored by companies that have developed an open and inclusive…

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  • 10 ways to listen, lead and succeed by Ann Skidmore

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    As a corporate coach I have worked with many leaders, but the person who inspired me the most worked in the airport industry and took a “back to the floor”approach. From time to time he would roll up his sleeves to get stuck in, in every department: washing dishes in the cafes, handling baggage and so…

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  • 13 Google AdWords Tips and Tricks

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    Google’s AdWords product helps connect you with potential customers in the right place, and at precisely the right time by placing relevant adverts on the right-hand-side of Google’s search results pages (SERPs) or through their content network, via AdSense.   For a beginner, Google AdWords can be a little daunting to start with, so below I list…

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  • DISABLED COMMUNITY MAKE “BETTER ENTREPRENEURS”

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    November  2011 Disabled people are “better equipped” to become entrepreneurs and successful business owners than many non disabled people, says Shane Bratby co-founder of DisabledEntrepreneurs, the UK’s leading organisation for disabled people with business brains. According to Shane, who was speaking to kick start Global Entrepreneurship Week among disabled professionals, although people with disabilities tend…

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  • Amnesty launches write for rights campaign in 50th year

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    Amnesty International is launching a new Write for Rights campaign in celebration of the organisation’s 50th anniversary and to mark International Human Rights Day.

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  • Global Entrepreneurship Week

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    What better time to get stuck into your new business plan and business launch preparations than during Global Entrepreneurship Week? And because this is the week it all happens, expect to see a lot of really good advice around for starting your own business, particularly in the media. From the 14th to the 20th November,…

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  • Top 10 ways to generate repeat business

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    Top 10 ways to generate repeat business How to keep your customers coming back for more If you’re focusing all your energies on winning new business, rather than servicing existing clients, you’ve got your priorities completely the wrong way round. Repeat customers are cheaper than new ones; you might have to spend thousands on marketing…

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  • Disabled Entrepreneurs article in the York Press

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    We’ve had a lovely article published in the York Press this week. It’s always nice to work with them, and for the paper to support our efforts is fantastic. I’m really proud.

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  • Inspirational artist donates most valued painting to help others

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    Inspirational wheelchair bound artist Marcus Krackowiser is giving back by donating his most valued painting of London’s Royal Opera House to a huge prestigious black tie event happening in London on November 2.

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  • Calling all disabled singles!

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    Betty, a production company for Channel 4 want to hear from you if you fit the bill. Following on from the success of their previous documentary series, Truly, Madly, Deeply (winner of the 2006 RADAR award) which documented the progress of the UK’s first dating agency for people with learning disabilities,  Betty are now working…

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  • Bianca Nicholas who suffers from Cystic Fibrosis Releases “Hold On To Your Dreams”

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    Bianca Nicholas from Beckenham in Kent, having always wanted to perform, began acting at the tender age of 5 years old when she took the lead role in a Cannes Film Festival Award Winning short titled “Is It The Design On The Wrapper?” she continued acting professionally until her mid-teens having taken part in various…

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  • Artwork from award-winning book ‘We Are All Born Free’ to be auctioned off to raise funds for Amnesty

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    Seven of the nation’s finest illustrators have put their artwork up for auction with all proceeds going to Amnesty International. The seven are John Burningham, Polly Dunbar, Chris Riddell, Satoshi Kitamura, Axel Scheffler, Korky Paul and Jackie Morris. The auction is taking place online with bids closing on December 10, 2012. Prospective buyers can bid for…

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  • We are working! Honest!

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    We haven’t dropped off the face of the earth! Annie, Shane and myself (Dom) are working hard at the moment to get our message out there! – We’ve been working on our packages – Deciding where and when our first networking event is. – Building our inspiring database of Disabled Entrepreneur stories. – Creating our…

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  • Business Secrets: Just when you want them

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    As business-minded individuals, we’d all love a mentor who we can call on 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Sometimes, it’s in the early hours of the morning that we get that business start-up panic. “Am I doing the right thing?” we might think to ourselves. “What have I let myself in for?”…

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  • Choosing the right business structure

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    Sole trader, partnership, limited company or LLP? We look at how to choose the right legal structure for your start-up You’re ready to start your new business, but have you considered how the decisions you make now will affect its growth? One of the earliest is company structure: we look at the pros, cons, ongoing…

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  • Why research is important for your business?

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      Research is an essential tool for any blossoming or flourishing business. By doing research you are arming yourself with crucial information that will allow you to make informed business decisions. You need to find out about your competition, how successful they are, what they do and don’t offer, how you may be able to fill the gaps…

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  • How to use Pay-Per-Click

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    What is Pay-per-click? Pay-per-click advertising, or PPC, is an instant form of marketing, based primarily on internet search engines such as Google. When you enter a search phrase into a search engine, you are taken to a page with two distinct sets of results. Down the centre of the page run the organic results; these…

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  • 6 Tips To Being Wealthy – The Smart Way!

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    Financial experts all agree that wealth is NOT what you’re able to buy and what you’re able spend, but also it is what you save and invest.The guy in that red hot Ferrari could be drowning in debt, while the person quietly cruising round in his Toyota could be a millionaire many times over!   Here…

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  • STELIOS AWARD FOR DISABLED ENTREPRENEURS IN THE UK 2011

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    This unique and prestigious Award is being sponsored by Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the serial entrepreneur best known for founding easyJet. The creation of the Award was motivated by Stelios’ goal of not only supporting disabled entrepreneurs, but also raising awareness of the skills and inventiveness of those with disabilities. We are now in the fifth…

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  • Motivational Business Quotations

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    Running a business can ignite spikes of exhilarating joy as well as phenomenal dips of depression, depending how your niche market is profitable at that particular moment. However, there will be times when you’ll be scared and feel powerless. There’s some bad days where there isn’t much you can do, other than to get motivated. So in…

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  • Social Media in Business, have you tried a SM dashboard?

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    It becomes extremely strenuous for online users to manage different social media platforms individually, so social media dashboard simplifies the problem of the users by maintaining all the portals on one page. A social media dashboard is a platform to channelize, organize and maintain various online portals from one single window. It provides a synoptic…

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  • Soundsphere magazine launches second issue this month!

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    Next week in fact, fingers crossed! Which is nice. Yes, it’s been a difficult road, and much longer than I could have ever anticipated but it is finally here. I have been able to create this publication with the help and support of fellow Disabled Entrepreneurs collaborator Jamie Mahon (who forged the entire design concept)…

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  • Will social media help my business?

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    More and more businesses are using social media to get in front of their target audience. It makes sense, if you are “out there” more, more people can find you. But Social Media goes beyond that. Being present in Social Media gives you more time to listen. You can keep an ear (or eye) on…

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  • Website updates

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    So, we’ve made a slight change to the website that we had. Nothing too drastic. Hopefully you find it easier to navigate and it looks a bit more tidy. That was the aim anyway. – Posts are now easier for readers to access – Social media icons are active so that you can find us…

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  • Disabled Entrepreneurs’ Poster Competition

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        The prize: 2 FREE GOLD tickets worth £167 each, to attend a top business seminar in London in Autumn 2011. These tickets are kindly donated by Bev James, founder of www.the-eba.com: the joint venture with James Caan. Competition: To win this great prize, you must design an inspiring disabled poster for us to distribute around special…

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  • Investment and Sponsorship

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    We are looking for a grant from the government or a business sponsorship deal of £500 to get our Disabled Entrepreneurs posters to print and put on display in disabled schools across the UK. Our sponsor’s logo will be on all our outgoing material plus you will have a link and logo shown on our website. If you are interested…

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  • King’s Academy talk

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    Shane and Dom did an Entrepreneur talk to the students of Kings Academy School in Middlesbrough, recently it was a real highlight for us both as Disabled Entrepreneurs. I did a Dragons Den-style event where the students had to design a mobility aid and then pitch the idea to me, while Dom gave lessons in writing about entrepreneurship. …

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