Manufacturing body EEF reports improvement in overall cost of credit for companies

ACCESS to credit is improving, says manufacturers’ organisation EEF.

The latest survey of North West members shows the first appreciable improvement in the overall cost of credit for manufacturing companies in 12 months.

Over the past quarter the proportion of companies reporting an increase in the fees and interest rates on both new and existing credit facilities has continued to show a downwards trend.

However, the percentage of companies actually seeing costs fall remains unmoved.

EEF says any signs of improvement are encouraging, but stressed that there was no room for complacency in enabling companies to access the finance they needed to invest and grow.

It said in recent weeks banks, Government and industry have moved towards a broader agreement on what needs to be done to address these challenges, but called for this to now be taken forward with action.

LinkedIn for iPhone 3.5: Communication Made Easier

Each time we update our iPhone application we like to focus on making improvements to existing features that are heavily used as well as providing new functionality.  In this latest release, we have focused our efforts in two areas:

 

• Building a better Inbox experience to make it easier to manage communication with your professional network.
• Providing a new way to keep track of what your professional network is doing on LinkedIn.

Our latest iPhone release is now available in the App Store for download.  Get it now:

Brand new Inbox

One of the most important solutions we offer on LinkedIn is the ability to communicate with people in your professional network and beyond.  We have built a brand new Inbox to make it easier to respond to and manage your messages while mobile.

The new Inbox offers quick access to viewing all of the messages you have received on LinkedIn, and a single tap lets you view all of your Sent and Archived messages.

Viewing Recent Activity

Keeping track of what your professional network is doing can be a challenge when you have a large network of connections.  It’s easy to miss important updates from past and present colleagues, and we wanted to enable you to ‘catch up’ on a specific connection when it’s convenient for you.  As part of this effort, you can now see the Recent Activity of any one of your connections right from their profile:

Like with Updates, you can easily like or comment on any one of the updates, or re-share it with your own network if it’s something you know they’ll be interested in.

What’s Next

We get a lot of feedback from our users on the features they’d like to see, and we are working our way through a long list of feature requests.  We’ll continue to update the application frequently to bring new and improved features as quickly as we can.

If you want to keep up with what we’re doing, and have a place to give us feedback and talk about your ideas for LinkedIn on the iPhone, please join our LinkedIn for iPhone group.

The No. 1 Source of Small Business Lending in America (and How to Access It)

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Here’s another hint.

The SBA reports it as the single largest source of small business lending in America today.

Still not sure what it is?

It’s called vendor credit also known as ‘trade credit’ or ‘supplier credit’.

Did you know that vendor credit is the second largest source of capital for Wal-Mart? It’s used

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Online education: what aspects you need to consider

If you decide to earn a degree online then look for accredited schools especially if you plan to get a correspondence degree. They can be discovered through a simple online search. There are many colleges and universities that offer online degrees in the correspondence program, it is likely that you attend one of traditional colleges.

Accreditation is critical, because it guarantees a necessary level of quality. It also ensures that companies with strong potential and other educational institutions will accredit your online degree. Very often accredited online programs have government school grants for students, check if you are eligible. Read more…

Sue Tennant profile: the retail whirlwind

WITH her whirlwind personality, Sue Tennant is the turnaround queen of Merseyside retailing.

Even after her achievements in bringing both top brand discount stores group TJ Hughes and clothing group Ethel Austin back from the brink, she is hungry for more of the same.

“Had Woolworths still been teetering and looking for someone to help I’d have taken it on,” said Ms Tennant, 48.

“I’d have done it and we’d have had a Liverpool Woollies back in Church Street.”

Not only did she and her team mastermind a dramatic rise in annual profits from a paltry £657,000 three years ago to £6.2m, but she opened eight stores over the last 14 months.

“Some of those were in old Woolworths’ stores, like our first store in Belfast,” said Ms Tennant, who comes from Page Moss and now lives in Heswall.

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Veterans – where are they now?

Today is Veterans Day here in the US where we honor those that have served in the military. The most recent statistics from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics show a worsening employment situation among veterans. In these challenging economic times we dug into our data to see if we could identify useful insights relevant for veterans. We also put together a list of LinkedIn tips for veterans, from veterans who work at LinkedIn.

There are nearly half a million LinkedIn members with U.S. military service listed on their profile. For these veterans, here are the top 10 industries in terms of the total number of LinkedIn members currently working in that industry:

What’s interesting about the above list is that most veterans are taking their specialized skill sets and applying them to a wide range of industries (most of which are not immediately associated with the military). I

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The Stock Exchange For Rookies

We’re from the process of putting together a beginners guide to the stock market for a new website I am doing work on and i believed I may well let you may have a appear far too. I hope that the several articles I write (I am planning 3) will not be very insulting to you, dear reader, but hopefully they may well include a nugget of use very.

Just before I commence, I ought to level out that these won’t be like every other pages ‘for beginners’ that you have ever noticed. This is why !!!.!!

We have been fascinated by investments considering the fact that I was in my teens. Most teenagers examine the sports pages, I examine the personal pages. I bought my very first shares aged 18. Into adulthood and i became a financial adviser at the grand old age of 24. We’ve sat and passed quite a few fiscal exams and a number of financial commitment certain skilled qualifications.

We’ve go through dozens of books about commodity picking, economics, finance, politics, company, marketing and advertising, funding gurus and their autobiographies. In shorter, Read more…