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Today's webchat: can entrepreneurs change the world?
To mark Enterprise Week, Enterprise Insight are holding daily lunchtime web chats to give you the chance to pose your questions to expert entrepreneurs. Today's topic is all about social enterprise.
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Ursula Petula Barzey is a franchisee and franchise consultant with the MatchPoint Franchise Consulting Network. This is a group of consultants based in the UK, US and Canada that provides free counsel and education for anyone wanting to go into business through a franchise. We thought it was a service that could be of great interest to soon-to-be home business owners.
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Our guest for the day: Helen Rhiannon Gill
Being a fashion designer can, at times, be the most glamorous and exciting job in the world with endless fashion shows, exclusive events, mixing with models and fellow fashionistas alike. These are definitely some of the perks, but behind all of that glamour is a very tough industry. Our 2008 Young Home Business of the Year, Helen Rhannion Gill tells us of her beginnings in this industry and her thoughts of Enterprise Week.
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It’s been a long time coming but we thought this was the right time to do it. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, readers of Enterprise Nation, we present to you the line-up of our top 5 forum posters. Please join us in thanking them for their sterling work and words and to show our thanks, they are each receiving a surprise voucher in the post.
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Home Business Bonanza: a tasty slice of cheese
You may recall reading about The Cheese Shed on the site a couple of weeks ago. It’s a lovely business run by Ian Wellens and James Mann; two generous cheese-makers who have extended an offer to our members on their festive Christmas selection. Be warned: mouth-watering images lie ahead.
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3rd Places: London's best free 'out of home' offices
"'Working from home'," Henry Carroll writes for Time Out magazine, "isn't always all it's cracked up to be." Why work from home, he argues, when some of London's most impressive cultural centres, quirky cafés and world-class museums are more than happy for you to take office - and for free? For our capital-based members (or just those visiting), here are a few of Henry's favourites.
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Paula Jones has had a revelation. She’s turning into something she doesn’t want to be; an employee. The thing about being a freelancer, she says, is that it often entails working for other companies on a regular basis, which leads to becoming part of the family and then to blending in. No, stop! If this is happening to you, it’s time to reclaim your working life. Paula shows you how.
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In-house Enterprise Nation accountant (and, as of today, official top forum poster!) Alan Young is musing this Enterprise Week. He’s thinking about how having the right frame of mind is good for business and that success is determined by our actions and attitude.
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Home Business Bonanza! Winter Woolies
As temperatures drop, are you on the look-out for fashion that will keep you warm and set you up for the season? Then look no further than Amada Ruiz’s company, Peruvian Knitwear, with its range of products from berets to ponchos. Snuggle up in one of these discounted offers and you’ll be smiling ‘til next Summer.send to a friend | Comments [0]
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Our guest for the day: Oliver Sidwell
Oliver Sidwell is the young Director of work placement website ratemyplacement.com. he takes a moment to tell us how he got started in business (it’s a rather woolly tale) and what Enterprise Week means to him.send to a friend | Comments [0]
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All you have to do to enter is tell us how you'd customise your MOO business cards. Be inspired by fantastic ideas in the MOO Flickr group and we'll pick 10 winners, plus runners up, who'll receive a 10% discount at MOO.
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