My first business, which I started on September 11th 2001 was a web design business. Shortly after starting it my brother joined me in the business. We ran it together as a web design company until 2005 when we stopped providing web design and development for customers and focused our efforts on the development of [...]

This year over one million new businesses started in the UK and over ten million new businesses started in the USA will fail. Why? Well various government departments, consultants and the press will no doubt produce reports and stories explaining that it’s down to lack of capital, the recession, the credit crunch, red tape or [...]

A number of readers have asked for more information on how to start a wedding planning business. Whilst it’s not a business I have much experience of (other than planning my own wedding) what follows are some thoughts on how I’d go about starting a wedding planning business.
Is there a local market (demand) and can [...]

Starting a Blog is undoubtedly one of the most popular Internet business opportunities at the moment and I regularly emails asking for advice on starting a blogging business. There’s a good reason for this popularity, it’s a cheap business to start and it appears to be an easy way to make a six figure income. [...]

I get quite a number of requests for advice on how to start an Internet business so here’s my very quick guide to starting an Internet business.
In reality building an Internet business is no different to building any other business, the basic steps are:

Pick an idea;

Pick a business model;

Set up the business;

Market your business;

Refine, develop [...]