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Hope you guys enjoyed the longest bank holiday ever! Just uploaded the fisrt of my Weekly Update vlogs. This is also the first video towards my 90 day challenge. Check it out. Comments more than welcome.x

 I don’t give  business advice. Mainly because I don’t feel I have enough experience to offer it. I just tell my story and  epxlain my  aspirations in the hope that they may be of use to somebody. I’ve set myself some challenges which I hope will help you. I’m a firm believer of continually moving forward. That’s the ....

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Even though consumers are bombarded with spammy email, and have instant control to simply delete a message from their in box,  small business advice sites still push  this as a credible  and exciting method of promotion.  With concerted effort to be creative and innovative after consolidating emails, a campaign  will not only drive traffic to you business, it can cement brand identity.

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HMRC states that you can claim back a percentage of the VAT on purchases which are both for business and non business purposes. So for me that’s  the  business calls I make on my personal mobile  phone. Again, the  dreaded VAT receipt is needed to  prove this.   Anyway after all that there is an option to request a VAT receipt for  purchase of the voucher.  Since finding out I could  reclaim  this as…

VAT arhhh!!! It’s confusing enough with out  the added drama of being messed about by online  sellers refusing to give  you an invoice.   Self- Assessment happends  each year.  To reclaim the cost of VAT on your business expenses, HMRC requires  VAT receipts from all your purchases. However, the…

Love Tees? Wanna start a business? Well check out this great video by T.shirt designer and owner Kym of HerroHachi. There are many many  vids on YouTube on starting your own T.shirt business…

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I hope my post finds you in good spirits? The sun has been shining all day today in my part of London, and that means working in the garden. My spirits are lighter when I'm closer to nature....

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Three weeks into the S/S Collection…….

I ordered some fabric from the USA…..guess that means I’m a real designer?  Lol, oh I’m too funny sometimes. No but really I did. I spotted the print on an Etsy sellers shop and fell completely in love.  I did surf the Internet looking for a UK stockist, to no avail. Whilst I was doing that, I spotted another fantastic print, and yes again…. I fell in love. Its true what they say. When waiting for hours for one bus, two always…

I have  been a total recluse for the past two weeks. I took a week  off from T.U.T  for my birthday and a few more days off for luck. The past seven days have been spent chill-laxing at my mom’s house.Yes I have been working..mostly designing the Spring Summer  garments. I am as joyful as I am anxious about the prospect of producing a collection. I really want to…

Even though a few month ago I spent a good few days  investigating  Self-Assessment, Tax,VAT thresh hold,taxable goods.....yawn...  that information just wouldn't compute today. Must be all the sun we had over the weekend,gone to my brain and burnt the little grey cells lol. I was informed many moons ago that a  trader had three months before he/she had to…

  It's that time again folks. Christmas is only a few months away so lets talk prezzies!!!. These are just two of the many items within The Urban Tiger boutiques which are great gifts ideas or fab accessories to finish your christmas party outfit. For Handmade & Upcycled crochet and fabric headbands, hair…

From my reading of the forums on the two sites I have shops on, I found that most sales are generated by other sellers. I guess its Etsy’s way of further publicizing your gaff. This is not a bad idea as Etsy is vast and it is so easy to go unnoticed. There is allot of work to do as a seller on that site to be noticed, like taking great shots of  items,being active within the forums,adding favourites to you shop to name a few. That’s why I’m adding a couple new segments to the…

 .....I’ve been looking at free websites. These are companies which offer free homepages to advertise your products. I bought The Urban Tiger .COM & CO.UK domains early this year from a site called Cheapest UK.com. They offer three free home pages  but the designs are pants!!!  Think it may be time to think  of some sort of website because when I qouting the blog address to people I get funny…

Whilst trawling the Internet for more freeness…someone should make that a word… I found out that the Post Office have a whole segment on their online site specifically for the needs of Small to Medium businesses. Naturally I was intrigued.........

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