We have changed the page Your privacy to reflect the fact that PRIME has moved to a new address in central London. We have also taken the opportunity to clarify what we know the site to be doing when it comes to setting cookies. Cookies are small pieces of text stored on your computer by - – - read more >

On the 26th of May 2011 new rules come into effect that cover how you can use cookies and other similar technologies to store information about visitors to your web site. In this post we explain the changes so you can understand whether you are affected, and suggest some sensible things you might do next. - – - read more >

Online Surveys – Zoomerang.com We’re guilty of using it a lot – e.g. read about these olderpreneurs. “Olderpreneur” is undoubtedly a bit distasteful or irritating. Maybe that’s why it sticks in the mind so well. We’ve found that older entrepreneurs themselves are split about about whether they like it, but we’re not sure exactly how - – - read more >

Do people really all use Facebook now? Do they use Skype for free phone calls from home, and expensive mobiles like the Apple iPhone when on the move? Are video and audio popular enough yet to be worth including on a business web site? And what about eBooks – is anyone reading them? We’ve now - – - read more >

Google is hosting a Build your own website event in Birmingham. Date: Thursady 30th September 2010, 6.30pm to 8.30pm  Venue: The Custard Factory, 30 Floodgate Street, Digbeth, Birmingham B9 4AA View map and directions Status: PRIME supported event Google UK’s Managing Director Matt Brittin will host an exclusive event for businesses in Birmingham and the West Midlands. Together - – - read more >

We are still doing the finishing touches. But this site now contains our most recent news and events. We are using the summer holiday season to move our site to a new host, upgrade to the latest version of the content management system we use (WordPress), and switch to a more modern site design. We - – - read more >

Setting up a web site is a high priority by most new businesses. But not everyone has the experience to do it for themselves from scratch – or the money to buy in the expertise from somewhere else. This is where simple Do-It-Yourself solutions come in. This post updates previous discussion on this topic (see - – - read more >

Are you interested in contributing to the PRIME Business Club web site – as a guest blogger? We’re looking for older entrepreneurs to share their experiences of starting and growing a business. Fill in this brief form if you’d like to be a regular contributor or submit a one-off piece. We’ll get back to you - – - read more >

Getting British Business Online, the governmnent backed-scheme that offers UK small businesses a free web site, is now live. Partners include Google, Enterprise UK and Paypal. You get: A free web address: Choose from any available ‘.co.uk’ domain name. A free web site: You build your site using an easy Wizard-type tool provided by Google, - – - read more >

The government is backing a scheme by Google, Enterprise UK and a number of other partners including PRIME to get more British businesses online. The campaign will kick of later this month with the launch of a set of free tools to simplify the building of a straightforward business web site, hosted by Google.  The - – - read more >

PRIME has teamed up with UK web site specialist Mr Site to offer a discount of up to 40 per cent on the company’s simple all-in-one web site creation packages. With the discount a year’s use of the Beginner package will cost you £15 rather than £19.99, a year of the Standard package £22.74 rather - – - read more >

KPMG and the London Development Agency (LDA) are hosting two innovative web-based seminars for small and medium sized businesses.  It’s an opportunity to take part in a seminar with other like minded professionals without leaving your desk/office. Business planning/Forecasting/Market Analysis – 9th September 2009 Winning Public Sector Contracts – 6th October 2009 For further information - – - read more >

Lots of interesting charts about how the UK’s population is using the Internet, phone and other digital media in Ofcom’s annual communications market review. Fast Internet access, or “broadband”, is now obtainable almost everywhere in the UK, so the key measure is adoption, or how many take it up. Overall take up of broadband reached - – - read more >

Quietly coming into effect at the end of May, the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 summarises in one place most of the things you are not allowed to do when selling to consumers. The parallel Business Protection from Misleading Marketing Regulations 2008 does the same thing for businesses selling to other businesses (B2B). - – - read more >

A list of the technology used to put to put this web together is given on the Site credits page. We are not using complicated or expensive tools. If you are interested in building your own site it is getting increasingly easy. You can get a free web site to experiment with that uses similar tools - – - read more >