Were always looking for creative ways to help our users learn the ins and outs of LinkedIn. Knowing that the average office worker can only watch a screenshot tutorial for a few seconds before the onset of spontaneous narcolepsy, we developed a fun, retro-themed webseries for small and medium business owners with the help of FedEx.
We call it LinkedIns Timeless Guide To Small Business Success.
Over six episodes, youll follow small business owners John, Alice and Stanley as they seek to grow their operations from home office to professional workspace, hire an experienced team, find corporate partners, and more.
Repeated postponements, a shortage of equipment and a lack of information from the group responsible for doling out the money have undermined research in the crucial first year after the disaster. The lag may make it impossible to fully understand the oil spill’s impact on the Gulf ecosystem, scientists said.
“Oil is a moving target; with every day of passing time, we get further and further from the acute effects of the oil and it becomes harder and harder to trace those effects,” said Ian MacDonald, a biological oceanographer at Florida State University in Tallahassee.
From late last April to mid-July, the blown BP Deepwater Horizon rig spewed 186 million to 227 million gallons of crude into the Gulf, adding up to the world’s largest peacetime oil spill. BP also doused the Gulf with at least 1.8 million gallons of chemicals to disperse the crude.
Last May, in the midst of the disaster, BP promised $500 million for a decade of Gulf research — enough to give the ecosystem unprecedented scrutiny.
Almost immediately, however, Gulf-area politicians — former Gov.
HOTELS chain InterContinental saw operating profits jump 22% to £277m in the year to December 31 as business travel started to recover.
The group achieved a 6% increase in total revenues of £1.01bn, while net debt shrank from £682m to £464.
InterContinental’s Liverpool portfolio comprises the £15m Indigo which is due to open on Chapel Street this year, two Crowne Plazas in Liverpool and Speke, a Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express and the business-oriented Staybridge Suites development on Kings Dock catering for medium- and long-stay corporate guests.
Chief executive Andrew Cosslett said: “2010 was an excellent year for InterContinental Hotels Group.
“After a slow start to the year the industry staged the sharpest recovery in its history, exceeding all expectations.”
He said the £625m relaunch of its Holiday Inn brand is almost complete and is delivering better than expected revenues per available room, while a similar drive across the Crowne Plaza brand – the fourth largest upmarket hotel brand in the world – is set to follow.
Liverpool stockbroker Panmure Gordon said it reiterated its ‘buy’ recommendation for the group’s stock after today’s annual results.
We can’t all be Robert Kiyosaki (“your strategy is all wrong; buy my book”) but nothing can stop you from using the money you have to its fullest potential. I’d do what my favorite advisor, Tim Gunn, always says: “Make it work!”
Opt for investments that provide fair returns
Nothing is worse than having another person profit from money you gave them to invest. Sadly, that’s precisely what’s happening if your money is languishing in CDs (certificates of deposit), savings accounts or money market funds!
These financial institutions are effectively borrowing from you, loaning/investing it elsewhere, and waxing fat on the difference. If you want your money to earn its keep, so to speak, conservative dividend stocks are a viable alternative; there are a number of companies that pay out annual yields of up to 9 per cent. You could say their tag-line, if they had one, would read “no flash, all cash”. Or something like t
GB GROUP, the Chester-based identity management specialist, is considering acquisitions as part of a growth strategy after its listing on the alternative investment market (AIM).
In a trading update today the group said it was “investigating selective earnings enhancing acquisitions” and confirmed that its full year results are expected to match forecasts.
Total revenues during the nine months to December 31 have increased by 13% to £17.7m and the operating profit for the same period soared 120% to £1.21m after the good performance GB reported at its half year continued into the third quarter.
The group’s cash balance has also improved, rising 22% to £5m.
GB comprises two elements: DataSolutions, specialising in identity-based marketing services and; DataAuthentication, which provides identity verification systems.
DataSolutions reported a 20% improvement in revenues for the nine month period, up to £10.1m.
It offers clients an ID customer registration product, ID marketing services to enable clients to analyse, target and retain their customers, and an ID tracing service which uses UK population and property data.
Today’s statement said: “We are pleased to note that growth has been seen across all of these areas of DataSolutions operations.”
The DataAuthentication arm achieved a 3% increase in revenues, to £7.6m, based on increased activity over the past three months to target new clients for two new services.
Citizensafe is an ID verification service for citizens allowing them to register just once for local authority services, while LiteIDV is an ID verification system aimed at the retail and utilities sectors.
New clients include ESRI UK, Pure Holiday Homes and a strategic alliance with international services provider Serco and global IT corporation Microsoft.
GB said today: “We have been encouraged by our performance in the third quarter and our growth rates exhibited in the year-to-date and consequently anticipate that our full year results will be in line with current market expectations.”
Given the growing excitement in the USA around this weekend’s Super Bowl, our Analytics Team thought it would be fun to dive into the LinkedIn data to understand our members’ enthusiasm for the Steelers and Packers. Could we discover what team the majority of LinkedIn professionals will be cheering for on Super Bowl Sunday? To find out, we immediately stopped searching for recipes for 7-layer dips and hot wings and logged into our database.
Two pieces of data give us some insight into what team a LinkedIn member may be rooting for. First, LinkedIn Signal allows anyone to filter their network’s status updates by company, industry, school and location. We used this data for all of LinkedIn’s members to algorithmically determine status updates with positive sentiment towards a team (for example: Go Pack Go!). We also
Are you having a hard time securing the financing you need for your startup or growing business?
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So to help you in your search here are twenty five ways you can finance your business:
CLOVER and Cathedral City firm Dairy Crest today revealed sales growth of its five top-selling brands had more than doubled on the back of higher prices.
The dairy giant reported an 11% rise in sales of its key brands – Cathedral City, Country Life, St Hubert Omega 3, Clover and Frijj – in the three months to December 31, compared with the rate of 5% seen in the half-year to September.
It said 8% of the growth came from inflation and 3% from increased sales volumes as it faced rocketing costs of milk, vegetable oil and other oil-related products.
The group has been upping its selling prices where it can to recover some of the increases, but is also slashing costs across the group to help – targeting more than £20m of savings this year.
The group has also started using the internet to tender for suppliers as part of this cost cutting drive, covering supplies such as batteries for its milk delivery floats and diesel fuel.
Dairy Crest said further progress has been made on signing up new customers to its milk&more milk delivery internet proposition after launching a TV advertising campaign last month.
Milk&more is now within sight of the £1m weekly sales milestone, up from £800,000 in September, it added.
Dairy Crest operates a milk processing site in Aintree’s Long Lane, which is benefiting from the drive to boost doorstep milk deliveries, and a spreads factory in Kirkby.
It said despite the difficult economic environment, pre-tax profits for the nine months ended December 31 are in line with expectations.
Chief executive Mark Allen said today: “We are encouraged by the progress we have made so far this year and anticipate that we will maintain our momentum through the fourth quarter.
“We remain cautious about the economic environment for next year, but we are well positioned to meet the challenges.
“Our strong range of products and broad customer base will help with this. In addition, we