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Refreshed Unwantd.com

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After 9 months of growth of www.unwantd.com, we've refreshed the site. Although the home page for launch worked really well, we felt a more simple approach to the layout would be more beneficial to the [...]

5 Steps To Change Your Life - Step 5 Look After Yourself

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Regular exercise and eating healthily are important to your state of well being and mental performance. Lack of energy, due to poor diet or lack of exercise will manifest itself in your day to day life. If you want to take on a new challenge you need to look after yourself. Power Naps are a great way of refreshing your brain &n [...]

5 Steps To Change Your Life - Step 4 Positive Thinking

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You are not born a negative person or a person, although you may believe you were. Your mind has been programmed to be a certain way, by those influences you had around you growing up and even now. You may have been brought up being told that you should always be prepared for the worst, not to get your hopes up or be content with what you’re given. As such, the little voice in your head repeatedly says such things to you, so you become ent [...]

5 Steps To Change Your Life - Step 3 Get Rid of The Fear

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No matter how much you have struggled in the past, every new day, provides you with new opportunities.

Fear is a powerful emotion, which restricts us from doing things. Sometimes it’s useful, as it is nature’s way of telling us of danger, but a lot of the time it’s illogical and a result of irrational emotions. Man [...]

5 Steps To Change Your Life - Step 2 The Confidence Trick

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Many people will use lack of confidence as an excuse for why they are not successful. If you are one of those people, you need to create a new belief system, which revolves around you being confident; you’ll then start to feel different. I’m not suggesting you just needto think you’re confident and you’ll be that way, I’m talking about taking a totally dif [...]

5 Steps To Change Your Life - Step 1 Taking Control

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Step 1 - Taking control

How do you take control? A few years ago, after a visit to Egypt, I came down with a tropical disease which meant that I couldn’t work for a few months. It wasn’t a break by any means, as post fever I was left extremely lethargic havingto sleep at least four times in the day. I had bought a self help book some six months previous, but had never opened it. [...]

5 Steps To Change Your Life - Intro

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I've written a rather long article (!) on steps to change your life, however I've decided to post each step as a blog over the next 5 days for you to read - hopefully you'll find them interesting :-)

What do you wantout of life? Are you 100% happy or do you wish you had more? Wishing it, sadly, will not make it happen, taki [...]

First Website Launch

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At the end of December 2006 my husband and our launched our first company. My husband is an IT guru and my background is marketing, so using our combined skills we decided in May 2006 to develop a website. We chose on an auction website as our first company, as we thought this would be fun, engaging and challenging. We recognised the obvious dominance of other sites in thisspace, but didn’t let that deter us, as we felt we could offer an alternative. We put together [...]

The Time Factor

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As an entrepreneur you may find yourself wishing you had more time to work on your business venture. The thing is you already have the time; you’re just not using it properly. Time Management is vital to the success of any business; you need to get a grip on it from the start to ensure the success of your business and your sanity! If you stop and think about how you spend your time - do it now - I'm positive you'll find time in the [...]

Questions for you to ask your finance lender

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Firstly, find out whether family or friends could help you. This should be your first port of call, as you can agree to pay the amount back without monthly instalments or interest rates. Do however treat the loan with respect and honor the date you agree to return payment.

If you need to go to a professional body, make sure you do your research to find out which lender is best for you - which lenders offer the best service (for you), competitive r [...]

Info for your financial lender

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Below are some key pieces of information a lending officer is likely to require:-

1)Cash flow projections
2)Business Plan
3)Current balance sheet and income statement
4)Pro Forma balance sheet, income statement
5)Three year history of all financials
6)Business tax returns to date
7)Current accounts receivable
8)Current accounts payable
9)Inventory, furniture, fixtures and equipment lists
10)Current pe [...]

Should I work from home?

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Working from home sounds very appealing and is more common nowadays than ever before. Before deciding to set up your business from home you should ask yourself a few questions:-

Do you have the space at home to run a business?If youhave a family or live with others, will they refrain from talking to you whilst you’re working?How do you feel about working at home alone? If you’re used to workin [...]