Index

-> Finance
-> Import & Export
-> Internet & Security
-> Legal Issues
-> Resource Sites
-> Sales & Marketing
-> Search Engines
-> Starting & Growing a Business
-> Women in Business
-> Young Business People

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Finance

Better Payments Practice group
How to get money from overdue clients, legally.
British Venture Capital Association - for biggish borrowers. Good Business plan download.
Creditsafe
Provides a debt prevention service with credit information about sole traders and multinationals.
DTI site
Follow link to Business Support for "SMART", grants and loan initiatives.

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Import & Export

India 123
The biggest and best search engine for India.
Asian Products
The largest Asian search engine to buy, sell and locate suppliers.

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Internet & Security

Metronet Ltd
Harrow based ISP, low priced domain registration and much more.
Trend Micro
Provides a free on line virus scan of your system. No registration or purchase.
Vmyths.com
Gives you the latest on virus hoaxes and links to useful sites.
Zone Labs
Provides the safety of dynamic firewall', free for personal and non profit use.

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Legal Issues

Business Names Register will check your business name and register it, at a price! Useful name checking facility.
Companies House
Guidance, booklets, email advice and search facilities for forming Limited Company. Access to register of companies.
Customs & Excise site for VAT and other information.
Data Protection Agency, register for the DPA and check scams.
Inland Revenue site giving simple guide to starting a business!
Law Society
Articles about legal issues affecting new businesses, contracts, legal status and lawyers who give free consultations.
Legal Pulse
UK site offering legal documents , advice and information, at a price!
Patent Office site for help on copyright, patents, design rights, trade marks and intellectual property with guidance notes.

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Resource Sites

Applegate
L ists 35,000 companies by name, telephone, place, contact name, employees and product. By town, code no – awesome! .
DTI
Links to their sites, and information on start-up, expansions and innovation in business.
Government entry point to UK public sector information on the Internet .
National Statistics provides the latest comprehensive range of official UK statistics and free access to some recent publications.
Business Centre Association
Find new premises here, the most comprehensive listing of business centres in the UK.
Excellent map search facility.
Green-Works
Non-Profit social enterprise providing quality office furniture at low cost to charities, schools, small businesses, community groups and hospitals. Vast quantities of redundant office furniture are secured from public and private organisations for re-distribution across the UK, creating valuable employment and training opportunities in deprived areas.
www.londoncakes.com
Marketing hospitality - quality food products - to the business market.

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Sales & Marketing

Better Business
Monthly subscription magazine aimed at those working from home with e-magazine. Useful articles and portal.
The Business Start Page
US site aimed at the start up market. Useful articles and tips.
Clearly Business features articles on all aspects of business, marketing, law, tax, information and more. Brilliant site for new businesses.
Small Business Gateway for entrepreneurs in Scotland but with useful articles on finance, business planning and training - plus freebies!

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Search Engines

020
The first search engine purely for London. Easy to register your site.
All The Web
Fastest and most comprehensive search engine with over 300m pages of information. UK based, country and language specific searches.
Search Engine Watch
Check your own site listing or learn more about search engines.

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Starting & Growing a Business

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Women in Business

Aurora Women’s Network
Europe’s largest network.
British Association of Women Entrepreneurs site with information for women in business
Every Woman
Massive portal with links to everyone including professionals by post code.

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Young People in Business

British Franchise Association site tells you what is involved in franchise – just in case you want a ‘safer’ route to self employment!
Prince’s Trust was set up by Prince Charles to help young people become self employed, to provide mentors and act as lender of last resort. And it does a brilliant job!
Shell LiveWire helps 16 – 30 year olds to develop their own business and hosts a national competition for new business start-ups.

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