7 Great Ways to Get Healthy With Sex in 2008
Written by Marie-Elise Allen of Sassy Vibes 1. Burn Up Those Calories Enjoy a sexual workout and burn up 150 calories or more! Not much of a weight buster? Well, it is more enjoyable than 50 press ups! 2. Don t Forget Your Stretches Having sex stretches and tones the body. Think of all the positions that can give the body a good work out. Indulge […]

Choose Your Own Luck in 2008
Written by Leanne Watson - Your Successful Mind One of the foundation stones of personal mastery is taking responsibility for yourself and where you re at in your life. When you re in charge of yourself, you re in charge of your life. Once you ve decided now, that you re in charge of you re life, you re on the path to joy […]

Online Networking Tip: Stay Alert
Savvy Gal Networking Tip: Stay alert. One easy way to keep track of your online image is to set up a news alert. This is a service offered by almost all search engines where you can type in your name (or your company s name) and whenever you re mentioned on the Internet, the search engine will send an […]

KidStyleFile
A central blog-style resource on a wide range of kids’ and baby clothing, toys, books and gear on sale, cheap, discounted and otherwise on special! Save a bundle on mill&mia, Oobi baby, Trunki, Mini Metalicus, Eeeni Meeni Miini Moh (EMMM), Active People Bilibo, BumpBuddy, Annabel Trends Tippy Toes, Mini, Miss&ladies Metalicus, Kuki Kids, Cinti Does Vintage, Willow&Finn, BIG by Fiona Scanlan, Little Leona, David Fussenegger, Baobab, Paper Wings, Edenstar&much much more. Daily updates.

Hunter Gatherer
Hunter Gatherer are a fresh produce home delivery service. We deliver next day for free to the greater Brisbane area.We hand pick top quality produce at the markets daily, then carefully pack to order.As well as a great range of fresh fruit, vegetables and herbs, HG also provide great quality fresh basked bread, juices, Merlo coffee, eggs, dried fruit&nuts, pasta&spices. We’re adding to our product selection all the time!

Queen s Speech
Not much in the Queen’s Speech to cheer businesses this year, I’m afraid. More training for younger employees, funded by…er…anyway, also there’s going to be an inquiry on whether we need all the red tape introduced by Gordy and his predecessor. I’m all for an inquiry into red tape. The only problem that I can see […]

Small Business Accounting&Tax Made Simple
When I first started my own business some three years ago, I was an avid frequenter of small business and startup forums (and I still am).  While picking the brains of various experts on the boards, there was one name that kept cropping up with really excellent advice on the nitty-gritty of basic small business […]

Free videoconferencing (for now)
Belgian software company Androme has used its Intellivic software development kit to create a videoconferencing service. Called Vidivic, the service is currently free of charge. Technically, it’s still in beta trials, but it works. And it works rather well. Providing you have a webcam (I rushed out and bought a Logitech QuickCam that clips onto my laptop […]

How bad s it going to be..?
OK, it’s got to be faced - there is going to be some sort of slowdown in the UK. The Prime Minister will say it’s largely because of American influence, which will be largely true, but will we care? The fact is that we’re going to be finding things tougher, Northern Rock support or otherwise. […]

Sage Sponsors SmallBizPod
Announcement re Sage sponsorship.

SmallBizPod #41 - Monday 5 March 2007
Emma Jones, founder of homeworking portal Enterprise Nation, talks about the home based business trend and kitchen table entrepreneurs.

SmallBizPod #46 - Friday 11 May 2007
Live from the Business Startup Show including interviews with Lord Bilimoria of Cobra Beer and Michelle Dewberry, young entrepreneur& winner of The Apprentice.

SmallBizPod #58 - Who s Afraid Of The Female Entrepreneur?
Female entrepreneurship special - interviews with successful women in business.

State of the Union and State of Small Businesses
Tonight President Bush will deliver his seventh and likely final State of the Union address to the nation. A front-page story in The Washington Post reports that the nation’s leader is expected to focus on the economy and the war in Iraq. However, the story notes, the president may leave office with a lot of unfinished business:"Bush has long wanted to make permanent the tax cuts approved early in his term, but Democrats appear to have little interest…It is also unclear how much leverage Bush will have to secure free-trade deals with Colombia, Panama and South Korea."His speech is also expected to urge Congress to complete work on an economic stimulus package, which includes tax rebates and incentives for businesses to invest in facilities and equipment. Among the guests in First Lady Laura Bush’s box, tonight will be Jim Barnard, the chief financial officer of Barnard Manufacturing,

He Scoops, He Scores!
The Washington Nationals inked a deal with local ice cream chain Gifford’s Ice Cream and Candy to serve sweet treats at the team’s new ballpark through 2011. The chain, which opened its first store in Silver Spring, Md., in 1938 will have a branded concession stand on the main concourse. The ice cream business is also creating the"Dinger,"a vanilla ice cream and chocolate cookie sandwich to be sold throughout the ballpark. A portion of the sale of each confection will be donated to the Washington Nationals Dream Foundation. The foundation has committed to building a diabetes pediatric care center and a baseball academy. The company has four stores throughout the D.C. metro area, in Bethesda, Chevy Chase and Rockville, Md., along with downtown D.C.

SBA’s Preston Fails to Sway Lawmakers
Lawmakers on Wednesday delved into whether the Small Business Administration is a beleaguered federal agency trying to put a quiet end to a festering seven-year issue governing how federal contacts are awarded to women-owned firms, or an entity that’s truly interested in helping women get ahead in business. That was just one of the controversial issues that arose in a hearing held by the House Small Business Committee to review the agency’s progress in implementing a program designed to help women get ahead in the federal contracting game. The SBA announced proposed rules in late December designed to ensure that a congressionally-mandated 5 percent of government contracts would go to female-owned businesses - a move that would seemingly head the issue in the right direction. But critics slammed the plan, because the agency said that women needed extra help in getting contracts in only four out of 140 industries: intelligence,

Watch Rowena Mead On The BBC
Just a quick reminder to all of you who enjoy Rowena Mead’s series of blog posts here on SmallBizPod - she’s being featured on a Money Programme special this evening at 7.00pm on BBC2. If you miss the episode, you ought to be able to watch the programme again for 7 days on the BBC’s […]

Why every business should be trendy
By trendy I don’t mean ber flamboyant, or even at the vanguard of cool. But every business worth its salt should have its finger on the pulse of customer behaviour, know what your customer habits and preferences are right now and have a sense of what the trends are for the future. In a nutshell, […]

Queen s Speech
Not much in the Queen’s Speech to cheer businesses this year, I’m afraid. More training for younger employees, funded by…er…anyway, also there’s going to be an inquiry on whether we need all the red tape introduced by Gordy and his predecessor. I’m all for an inquiry into red tape. The only problem that I can see […]

How bad s it going to be..?
OK, it’s got to be faced - there is going to be some sort of slowdown in the UK. The Prime Minister will say it’s largely because of American influence, which will be largely true, but will we care? The fact is that we’re going to be finding things tougher, Northern Rock support or otherwise. […]

Yorkshire Innovation
Yorkshire Science provides a very focused, but nonetheless useful site to inspire innovation and invention among startups and businesses in the region.  There are some interesting case studies, information on funding and a good use of multimedia to bring some of the business stories alive.  Worthy of recommendation and worth a look even if you’re […]

Business Leader To Call for’Super SBA’
A leading advocate for small businesses plans to detail for the nation’s mayors this morning a radical proposal intended to cultivate a better environment for the small business community. American Management Services Chairman and CEO George Cloutier in a speech accepting an award at the U.S. Conference of Mayors’winter meeting this week in Washington will call for a five-fold increase in the budget for the Small Business Administration, a consolidation of small business programs across some 40 agencies and the creation of something akin to a small business Peace Corps.

Unique Scrapbooking
Unique Scrapbooking provides a large range of discounted Scrapbooking and Paper craft supplies along with superb customer service. We stock all of your favourite brands such as Urban Lily, Heidi Swapp, Basic Grey, s.e.i, Hero Art Stamps and Bazzil along with many unique, hard to find embellishments.

Swish Emporium
Swish Emporium offers a range of candles, clocks, essences, handbags, jewellery, photo frames, prints and specialty gift ware. We offer gift wrapping with card for those special purchases that we can deliver for you. We handpick every selection shown on these pages to ensure that there is an emphasis on quality, uniqueness, design, function and price. Let us add a little bit of swish now for you.

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