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No matter what the size of your business you can enter a business award. There are a huge variety of awards around from local to national, industry based or with specific criteria. You can find out about awards through your local chamber of commerce,…
Anonymous Author
10 February, 2020
Business West
From April 2020 the new stricter IR35 rules come in. The idea behind the IR35 rules, which is to prevent consultants, contractors and freelancers being used as "disguised employees and thus avoiding paying tax and benefits. Unlike employees on contr…
Anonymous Author
21 January, 2020
Business West
Architectural visualisation is the process of creating digital models of structures, buildings, and spaces using complex modelling methods and powerful rendering computers. The field gives architectural and property developers a deep cache of tools a…
Anonymous Author
16 January, 2020
Business West
Writing a blog is a great way to connect with your audience and share your business knowledge. It's a way of telling your story and showing yourself as an expert in a particular area. As Editor of the Chamber magazine and one of the team who approves…
Tom Smith
8 January, 2020
Business West
When you are a small business, successful marketing can make all the difference to your success. However, a large marketing budget can never be an immediate priority for your limited investment funds. Fortunately, social media has democratised the …
Anonymous Author
7 January, 2020
Business West
For ambitious individuals with a business mindset, starting up a company and becoming their own boss is the ultimate challenge - and with data showing that 64% of the UK workforce have aspirations to start their own business, it seems the entrepreneu…
Anonymous Author
12 December, 2019
Business West
When it comes to developing the customer proposition, it is hard to think of a better guy to do that than Peter Boucher. Peter, 48, is chief executive of Excalibur Communications in Swindon who has just been made a non-executive director of Business…
Ian Mean
11 December, 2019
Business West
Sarah Hildersley from Business West talks about her time in the Middle East and the opportunities which exist for UK companies. A few years ago, I returned to the UK to join Business West from several years of working with UKTI/the Foreign Office. Du…
Anonymous Author
22 October, 2019
Business West
There are lots of rules around what you can and can't claim for tax deductible expenses. When it comes to training, seminars and CPD, there are one or two grey areas over what you can claim tax relief for. Most business owners think that any training…
Dakota Murphey
20 August, 2019
Business West
