Currently we have UK local and national landline call rates at well under a penny per minute, with some suppliers a very long way under that. So is the trend going to continue? If so the margin is all but gone, and if the rate drop were to continue, the phone companies will be paying [...]
To rise to the challenge of the recession, Business Owners, Directors and Managers will seek to focus their attention on effective cash flow management and forecasting, maintaining profit margins, looking for ways to spread business risk and managing costs. This represents a significant challenge in the best of times and, just as resource and experience [...]
Your business may be affected by a new legally binding climate change and energy saving scheme called the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC). It will cover large business and public sector organisations. It will have a significant impact on reducing UK carbon dioxide emissions from these organisations. In Summer 2009, the Environment Agency – the scheme administrator [...]
With the financial market in turmoil and businesses finding it difficult to obtain funding, the media focus has tended to ignore the energy sector in recent weeks. However, there have been some interesting and dramatic events taking place, all of which will have a major impact on small businesses. The difficult trading conditions in the [...]
From Friday 16th January BT customers will be able to make calls to 0845 & 0870 numbers free of charge. This is reported to be as a result of pressure from customers – and a good thing too, from a caller’s point of view. Organisations raising revenue from the 0870 numbers will not be so [...]