I’ve recently started work on a new book: The Big Book of Business Ideas. I’d like to include a number of case studies in the book and some ‘from the trenches’ advice.
In order to compile the case studies and advice, I need around 400 small business owners to answer a simple questionnaire.
What’s in it [...]

Dear Readers,
I’ve entered Business Opportunities and Ideas into the Barclays Take One Small Step competition to win £50,000 to help grow the blog.
In order to have a chance of winning I need your support, so if you like this blog and you’d like to support it, please visit the Business Opportunities and Ideas entry and [...]

Both the Business Opportunities and Ideas blog and I were featured in the June issue of Men’s Health.
The blog and I are mentioned in the article written by Sam Dunn titled “£1m Idea Machine” which begins on page 126. On page 129 he mentions the ideas put forward in the post How To Make A [...]

Business Opportunities and Ideas now has it’s own YouTube channel. The Business Opportunities and Ideas YouTube channel will feature videos about the business ideas, business opportunities and small business advice that I post here.

To get it started I’ve posted a slideshow version of the ever popular post 10 Tactics For Finding New Business Ideas, [...]

I’ve been using Twitter on and off for a while now, but I’ll be making more of an effort to tweet about interesting ideas I find elsewhere that I can’t cover on the blog from now on. If you’d like to keep up with the business ideas you can follow my tweets here.

I’ve [...]

I’m pleased to announce that the Business Opportunities and Ideas blog has moved from www.businessopportunitiesandideas.co.uk to: www.businessopportunitiesandideas.com
If you have the site bookmarked or you link to it, please update your links.
Everything should work exactly as before, all usernames and passwords for the blog and forums remain the same and should still work. However as [...]

The Business Opportunities and Ideas blog is three years old today!

In it’s third year Business Opportunities and Ideas has grown to over 800 post attracting over 2,200 comments and the business opportunities and ideas forum has started to develop into a useful resource for budding entrepreneurs – so if you haven’t visited the forums [...]

When I tried to access this site today I was shocked to find that Firefox informed me that I shouldn’t visit the site as *I* was distributing malware/badware. Here’s what I saw instead of my homepage:

 
Even worse when you view this site in Google’s search engine here’s what they do to it:

 
So I’ve spent [...]

Business Opportunities and Ideas is officially two year old today. Hurray!
In the second year Business Opportunities and Ideas has grown to over 700 post attracting over 2,000 comments and the forum has started to develop into a useful resource for budding entrepreneurs – so if you haven’t visited the forums yet, why not do [...]

In the 1960’s Andy Warhol famously quipped that “in the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes”. Since then I’ve heard it said that with the rise of the Internet everyone will be famous for fifteen seconds. Well today it seems I’ve had my fifteen seconds. As regular readers will know from my recent [...]