By Claire West
Social networking and micro blogging service Twitter is a great source of information about the current weather conditions.
Web developer Ben marsh has even created an app that searches Twitter for real-time snow reports and displays them on the map www.uksnowmap.com
You can also follow National Rail enquiries www.twitter.com/#!/nationalrailenq for train information.
The # (hash tag), easy way to group or search for related topics on Twitter, is #uksnow
For all businesses, both large and small, one of the first steps to trading, both online and offline, is to assign unique identification numbers to your products in the form of a Global Trade Item Number (or GTIN for short). GTINs allow you to unlock all relevant product information to your items, allowing you to successfully list and sell your product, barcode your stock, leverage search engines, manage inventory and even monitor customer satisfaction.
A previous article written by GS1 UK explained what a GTIN is, and the importance of GTINs for businesses.
On 31 March 1971, more than 50 years ago, a group of business leaders put aside their commercial differences and met up in New York City to revolutionise the grocery sector. Price stickers were no longer going to cut it, so they imagined something better that would save people time, money, and help to identify everything we buy.
Technology is taking over the world, and it doesn’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon - but is this good? Or are we potentially moving into dangerous territory, with technology replacing the need for human connection and employability?
It is well-known that the human brain is better equipped to receive, understand and remember information when it is communicated in pictures, rather than simply in words.
Making Tax Digital serves the needs for larger accounting software vendors and SMEs alike, but what about micro businesses and the self employed? Mazuma’s Lucy Cohen warns that the rules come to effect in April 2023, and the UK’s self employed need to catch up FAST.
