Series 5 of Dragons’ Den kicked off last night, as the BBC is coming under increasing critisim for turning what could be an interesting business show into cheap reality TV. Commenting on the trailer for series five, Rachel Elnaugh, a former Dragon herself, described the BBC’s approach to the series as:

Coliseum TV created exclusively for [...]

I’ve just recieved some email spam that claims:

NOTE: This is not *spam, you have been contacted by a person sending this email manually

Which made me laugh, as it clearly wasn’t sent manually. How do I know? Well it was to my web development business offering a Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) service. If it had [...]

I’m becoming increasingly concerned at the waste I see in everyday life (mine in particular) as I fear it’s not sustainable and as a new Dad I can’t help wondering what my children and their children will think of the world we are leaving them.
Will they hate us for the greedy consumption of oil and [...]

Letting your customers choose the price of your product or service is a daring move, but one that’s sure to generate buzz, just as it is for the band Radiohead.
Radiohead, have shocked the music world by dumping their record label and announcing that they are making their latest album, In Rainbows, available digitally [...]

If you want to start a business but don’t have the skills to do it all by yourself or you just love the startup experience then a Startup Weekend might be of interest. The concept behind Startup Weekend is simple:

Have you ever wondered what a group of highly talented and motivated people could accomplish in [...]

Everything Is Negotiable is a practical and easy to read guide to negotiating. It is based on the authors Everything Is Negotiable seminar and has been constantly improved since the original 1982 edition.
Gavin Kennedy is the founder of Negotiate and is a leading figure in the world of negotiation. He has also authored the Negotiation [...]

Over the last two months I’ve been dealing with an organisation that I really want to have a positive experience with, but so far have been disappointed. Why am I disappointed? Well each time I’ve interacted with them they’ve told me what the they’ll do next and when I can expect to recieve a response [...]

Buzz Marketing is a term that is widely used under a number of different definitions; Wikipedia refers you to straight to word of mouth marketing, SearchCRM defines it as a type of viral marketing saying

…that attempts to make each encounter with a consumer appear to be a unique, spontaneous personal exchange of information instead of [...]

Viral Marketing is the name given to marketing that is designed to spread like a virus through a social network. A successful piece of viral marketing makes it easy and compelling for people to pass it on to their peers.
The term Viral Marketing was coined by a Harvard Business School professor, Jeffrey F. Rayport, in [...]

Dragons’ Den returns for a fifth series – next week, with nine all-new episodes. There’s also a new Dragon in the Den as James Caan joins Deborah Meaden, Duncan Bannatyne, Theo Paphitis and Peter Jones. The new series airs Monday 15 October 9:00pm on BBC2.
Business ideas up for consideration in the first episode include a [...]