As the start of a new tax year ushers in a new period of planning for small businesses, elephant communications this week announces it will be holding two free advice days for local small business start-ups in the next three months.
A view from the high street: Small business optimism, consumer festive spending - and new elephant research on whether savvy saving or credit may be on the cards this Christmas.
Six months ago 107 Meridian FM made a commitment to back local business. Today the show is booked up 10 weeks in advance.
This Bank Holiday Monday - 107 Meridian will be showcasing a number of small business interviews conducted by the elephant team in recent months.
A look back on a couple of February’s small business interviews which the elephant team conducted on Meridian business drive time.
Blog update by Guy: This week elephant team members have delivered talks at two universities. We have engaged with postgraduate business students on our latest research and kicked off this year's ‘elephant in the room’ competition.
On Friday 20 February elephant communications will be running a free film day for small businesses.
This week we hosted our autumn small business advice day at our offices. As part of our community investment programme, we set days aside to offer local businesses free PR advice.
Community investment blog by Karen Waugh: We are doing something different for our next free PR advice day for small businesses on Wednesday 16th October.
During June and July we ran two free PR days for small businesses from our new offices. Since the launch of elephant communications, this has been an integral part of our community investment programme
Small business outlook remains largely unchanged over the last 12-months, with the majority of business owners predicting only modest, organic growth or no change at all.
More than a third of small businesses think that coverage in the trade press would be the most effective way to generate interest in their business, according to new research from elephant communications.
More than two in five SMEs (42%) think that £5,000 or less would be a meaningful annual PR and marketing budget on which they could expect a return to help them to achieve growth, according to the new research from elephant communications.
A free advice day diary by Karen Waugh
Today we ran another of our quarterly free advice days for small businesses. We had a full, sun-drenched day meeting, listening to and sharing ideas with a number of small businesses.
