672,893 new businesses were started in 2018/2019 – an incredible 1,843.5 per day! Out of all of the new businesses started in 2013, 57.6% of them had closed down within the 5 years to 2019. In the time that The Marketing Associates has been in business there have been, as with any business, highs and […]
Tag Archives: small business owner
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Apr
Apr
I know that the UK is still very much in lockdown but now is the time to start thinking about how to re-open your business and what that will look like
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Jun
Jun
For all the wonderful positives that being self-employed brings, being paid late is one of the most disempowering and dispiriting things about being a business owner. Did you know that Small and Medium businesses in the UK are on average paid 20 days late each invoice? This is very common as sometimes it is just […]
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Feb
Feb
So, we all know that being a mother in general is hard work; you never get a day off, you are always on call and you get very little thanks, but we also know that it is amazing at the same time. The real fun starts when you try and be a ‘modern’ woman and […]
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Oct
Oct
Marketing is often left at the bottom of a business owners ‘To do’ lists because they think it will cost them lots of money. The truth is that it can cost lots and lots and lots of money but it doesn’t necessarily have to! How would any business ever get past start-up stage if they […]
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Sep
Sep
Want to know how to start a start-up? The Marketing Associates shares how they started from a kitchen table to become a successful marketing agency.
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Aug
Aug
So, you have decided to start your own business – congratulations! You know what you want to do and how you are going to do it, in fact you are sat at your kitchen table right this minute reading this blog but you have a question…how do you actually go from your note book of […]
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Jul
Jul
If you are currently sat at your kitchen table thinking ‘what am I going to do for a job’ then this blog is to cheer you, support you and hopefully help you in your start-up!… The Marketing Associates’ is a flexible, marketing resource concept launched, like many other modern day start-ups, from a kitchen table […]