Category Archives: How to be more Self-Employable/Employable

Find out how to fast-track yourself into successful self employment and employment. Articles consider key skills and attitudes and also highlight some industry secrets and important issues that relate to getting the job you want.

Digging for fire will spark your thinking

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Peter Harrington

Tweet Last month’s blog post entitled ‘Top 10 websites for entrepreneurs’ highlighted the most popular sites being recommended to people starting in business. But when looking more deeply at the sites and social media sources that didn’t make top ten … Continue reading →

Posted in Entrepreneurship in Action, How to be more Self-Employable/Employable, Teaching Entrepreneurship & Business, The Business Simulation - 'SimVenture' | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 20 Comments

Top 10 websites for entrepreneurs

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Peter Harrington

Tweet For the past 2 months I’ve conducted some basic research to establish the very best websites that help people start and stay in business in the UK. Over 500 individuals (who work in an advisory and business support capacity … Continue reading →

Posted in Entrepreneurship in Action, Finance in Business, How to be more Self-Employable/Employable, Human Behaviour in Business, Sales and Marketing in Business, Teaching Entrepreneurship & Business | Tagged | 8 Comments

If you’re going to screw up a pitch, here’s how…

Posted on November 15, 2012 by Peter Harrington

Tweet As part of Global Enterprise Week 2012, I was invited to talk to students at Oaklands College about the art of pitching. Rather than provide environmentally unfriendly handouts on the day (paper that inevitably finds its way into the … Continue reading →

Posted in Entrepreneurship in Action, How to be more Self-Employable/Employable, Sales and Marketing in Business | Tagged , , , , , , | 6 Comments

Crap meetings & how to avoid them

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Peter Harrington

Tweet Once upon a business life I self-published a ‘book’ for the caravanning market. Knowing little about these boxes on wheels and kidding myself the product was half-decent, I led a telesales department (me) and phoned UK caravan outlets in … Continue reading →

Posted in Entrepreneurship in Action, How to be more Self-Employable/Employable, Sales and Marketing in Business | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

How to find new ideas to start & grow a business

Posted on July 1, 2012 by Peter Harrington

Tweet If you read last month’s ‘How to Profit from the Alternative Rhythms of Time‘, you’ll be aware I recommended the ‘Springwise‘ website. It’s the place to get your daily fix of innovative and entrepreneurial ideas. It’s a brilliant site. … Continue reading →

Posted in Entrepreneurship in Action, How to be more Self-Employable/Employable | Tagged , , , | 2 Comments