HMRC tax and NI guides for small businesses

05 Sep 2016

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...

How flawed recall and memory bias pollute Market Research

02 Aug 2016

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

02 Aug 2016

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

25 Jul 2016

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

06 Jul 2016

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,...

An overview of Russian regions and cities

06 Jul 2016

Russia is becoming an increasingly important research market – but is often a bit of mystery for us researchers. The country is vast, at 17.10 million square kilometers, and is the biggest country in the world. How do we choose where to go in such a big country?...