How to Get a £10,000 Loan for Your Small Business in 15 Minutes

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Your business urgently needs to borrow £10,000 for 3 weeks. You need it within 24 hours. What do you do?

Maybe a big customer missed a payment, or you’ve got to cover an unusually large VAT bill.

You’ve maxed out on your bank overdraft, and you don’t have time to get your suit dry-cleaned, arrange an appointment with the bank manager, do the paperwork, wait 2 weeks for a decision… only for them to say no!

What do you do?

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How I Got a 500%+ Increase in Traffic – by Moving Domains

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I made some small tweaks to this site last night… …when I checked my Google Analytics this morning, I was amazed to find that organic search traffic had increased by more than 500% overnight. The background Before getting carried away, I want to make a few things clear: This site is only 5 weeks old [...]

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How to Rock Your Digital Music Business

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Are you an aspiring and talented musician? This article will help you to use the internet to spread your music, find your true fans, and build a business that looks after itself – and you. Not so long ago if you wanted to make a living from your music then you’d have no option but [...]

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Cloud Accounting ‘Peace of Mind’: FreeAgent Review

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I’ve been grappling with ‘doing the books & records’ for my own small businesses since 2001, and it’s always been stressful and tedious. I’m sure I’ve lost hair & reduced my life expectancy by several years trying to reconcile spreadsheets of numbers: for invoices, expenses, bills, paid, due, overdue, straddling accounting periods. And that was just for [...]

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Lessons on “Intimacy” from an Indian Rock Band

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I was lucky enough to catch India’s leading contemporary fusion rock band Indian Ocean perform live this week in New Delhi. The last time I was in India was 12 years ago! Formed in 1990, music critics have described the band’s music as “Indo-rock fusion with jazz-spiced rhythms that integrates shlokas, sufism, environmentalism, mythology and revolution.” Indian Ocean describe themselves [...]

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