"Some people believe that when you get past a certain age of 50 that it’s all over. Well, they’re wrong, they’re totally wrong." Sir Alan Sugar
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“Enterprise isn’t just about youth”, says Laurie South, PRIME’s Chief Executive. “People of any age can set up in business, but it’s particularly useful for the over 50s as there are not a lot of other options. Older people still face difficulty finding an employer willing to give them a job.”
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The excellent home-business web site Enterprise Nation is now accepting entries for its 2008 home business award. The closing date is Friday the 15th of August 2008, and the winner will be announced on the 1st of September.
The free competition is easy to enter, requiring just 200 words under each of three headings on the entry form. Your [...]
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PRIME has teamed up with publisher Kogan Page to get you a discount off any of the publisher’s books. Kogan Page specialises in business books, and have many relevant small business titles. To get the discount just order via this PRIME book shop link, which shows a selection.
At the moment the discount is running at [...]
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It’s now possible for anyone to freely access a huge resource library created for small businesses and startups by a consortium of UK universities. You can go straight to the search and browse page of the collection, called VentureNavigator, without having to register or login.
The content includes:
Accounting
Advisors
Angel Investors
Brand
Business Model
Business Plan
Communication
Compensation
Competition
Customers
Distribution
Entrepreneurship
Equity
Finance
Fundraising
Human Resources
Innovation
Intellectual [...]
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Are some of your customers stars, bringing in money, skills and enhancing the reputation to your business? And are others quite frankly duds, bringing you hassle and actually losing you money on each sale?
Simply asking these questions can lead you into making some useful changes to the way you do business - so you do [...]
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Garry Stephenson, 55, has set up an innovative photography company just months after being made redundant.
Garry, from Cannock in the West Midlands, was made redundant at Christmas from his job inspecting motor homes for a large local vehicle importer. His company SkyHiFotos.co.uk offers photography from an unusual angle – taken from the top of a [...]
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Philip Black has recently been made redundant at the age of 57. This programme in the Radio 4 Learning Curve strand follows him round London Olympia, talking to various exhibitors at the One Life Live show about what if anything they could do to help.
Back in the studio, presenter Libby Purves interviews Laurie South [...]
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Watch it here.
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On Friday the 8th of February 2008 at 7pm BBC 2 is showing “Too Young to Retire” - a special edition of The Money Programme about people who are building successful businesses in their 60s and 70s.
One of the older entrepreneurs featured is chartered accountant Dick [...]
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This is an update to an earlier post on the same topic. Our basic position hasn’t changed:
Remember: grants to small businesses are relatively rare in the UK, usually have strings attached and are unlikely to give you 100 per cent of the money. Customers are the real people who can grant prosperity to your business, [...]
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Some 800,000 people between 50 and state pension age are currently inactive but want to work, according to a new report commissioned by PRIME and written by leading economist Christopher Smallwood.
The majority of new businesses are created by people in their forties and fifties - indeed business owners aged over 50 account for 15 per [...]
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The printed paper version of “Working for YOURSELF - a practical guide to sales, marketing and preparing a business plan for people aged over 50″ is now available. You can still download the guide as a PDF, but if you would prefer a paper copy just email us your details and we’ll post you a [...]
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Here’s an updated list of common business pitfalls. Below each pitfall there are links to information about how to deal with them.
The revised text comes from the new A5 paper leaflet version of an article that originally appeared on this site. We’ve checked the original links and added some new ones. Comments and suggestions for [...]
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Now you can get almost any word on this site explained thanks to a service from Answers.com
Some phrases will also work.
To use it you just click rapidly twice on any word on the page (that isn’t a link). This causes a box to pop up containing a dictionary definition. (Links function in their normal way [...]
