HMRC tax and NI guides for small businesses

Many small business owners are experts in what they do but can struggle with the adminstrative or 'technical' aspects of running a consultancy. Here we have collated a number of useful resources for the new, and established, business owner to help with setting...

New Insurance Act

The Insurance Act introduces a more policyholder friendly approach to commercial insurance and brings commercial insurance law up to date (the current law is based on the Marine Insurance Act 1906).  It changes the way in which insurance is underwritten by...

How flawed recall and memory bias pollute Market Research

DialSmith, a US based market research company, have been recently publishing an interesting series of articles looking at our reliance on fundamentally flawed recall and memory based methods of gathering feedback. This is (so far) a five part investigation covering:...

Working with Children

The CRB is no more and has been replaced with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).  The aim is to prevent unsuitable people from working with vulnerable groups, including children and replaces both the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) and Independent...

Top ten tech tools to save time

Top ten (or is it 13?) tech tools to save time Last week at Judy Heminsley’s regular ‘How to Work from Home’ workshops at Central we had a tech theme and San Sharma, Community Manager from Work Snug and Enterprise Nation came along to talk us through...

Social Media Intelligence as a Credible Research Method

A Personal Perspective: Social Media Intelligence as a Credible Research Method Do you remember the day you used the internet for the first time? I still remember mine; it was a pretty unremarkable school day.  There were about 15 of us in my computer studies class,...
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