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Well it looks like the British summer arrived this weekend and to celebrate I decided to place myself in my local park (Peckham Rye Park for those who live on the right side of the river) for much olives eating and ice-cream consuming. Now, it wouldn’t do for me to over exert myself and break a [...] 1

Reading the forum this morning, I stumbled across this little gem from our Vanessa B. She asks, can a celebrity be entrepreneur too? Now this really got me thinking….. Just the other week I was moaning about how Lady Gaga somehow deems herself an entrepreneur. (Memo to Lady Gaga: Wearing big pants, running around with a [...] 0

SUCCESS CAN BE LEARNED Last time I described how motivation plays a huge part in the process of success. Without a high level of motivation to do anything in life you will not achieve the end result you are looking for. This time, we move onto another component of success, which is Clear Aims. Component Number 2 – CLEAR AIMS People [...] 0

When Howies got bought out by Timberland I wondered if it would retain it’s ability to be entrepreneurial. Happily so far it doesn’t seem to have dented their enthusiasm for innovation and the latest to be launched is Teepay - a site where designers upload their t-shirt designs and, if they receive 30 orders, their [...] 3

You may have spied this article in yesterday Times about women in work. It didn’t make for very optomistic reading but I believe that even in the downturn being positive is one of the most important things you can do! To back up my claim I decided to invite Samata Angel and Julie Hall to join [...] 0

Make Your Mark ambassador Samata Angel is a self taught fashion designer and owner of label to the stars Samata’s Muse. As a fearless entrepreneur she has bags of useful advice. In the first of a series of exclusive articles, Samata shares her top tips on how diversifying can help you weather the economic storm. [...] 0

Being green fingered myself and a lover of good food I was particularly pleased to be alerted to the story of Andrew Johnson in the Guardian. He was made redundant in 2004 but is now running a business expected to turnover more than £1m next year. His business is Living Salads, a great supermarket alternative to [...] 1

Right now at Make Your Mark we’re highlighting people who’ve taken control - people who’ve taken the leap into entrepreneurship as a way of seizing control and making a positive change in their lives. Here’s a handful of our inspiring Ambassadors who’ve done just that… Businesswoman and mum Ranbir responded to the long hours and politics [...] 1

Make Your Mark ambassador Samata Angel is a self taught fashion designer and owner of label to the stars Samata’s Muse. As a fearless entrepreneur she has bags of useful advice. In the first of a series of exclusive articles, Samata shares her top tips on how diversifying can help you weather the economic storm. [...] 5

It seems to me that when the going gets tough, the tough get giving. Buried amongst all the reports of crashes, crunches and free-falling markets, there are stories about people working harder than ever to support others. Take, for example, the news that one in eight donors have actually increased their giving to charity during the [...] 0

Week 4 - Top “Online Marketing” Tips from PureOnlineGenius.com Most small businesses owners wear many hats. It’s not unusual for the entrepreneur to be in charge of sales, marketing, business development, operations, taking out the rubbish and filling up the water cooler! Many rightly believe they don’t have the time it takes to do justice to their [...] 0

If you consider yourself a retail queen, get your entries in for the fantastic Specsavers Everywoman in Retail Awards! Supported by us, Everywoman (the UK’s leading provider of training and resources for women in business) and Specsavers, the awards aim to highlight the contributions women make in their field. The awards, now in it’s second year, [...] 1

So after the dust has settled on the budget, was it all you hope it would be? And as some newspapers have been wondering, does a 50% tax rate on higher earners really affect enterprise and hard work? 0

Well we think it is if you have a strong idea, but don’t take our word for it. Mark Dixon, founder of Regus office spaces, tells Working Lunch he’s noticed a lot of start-ups appearing during the recession. 0

A strange day today - with the good news including that Jamie Murray-Wells has been awarded the Queen’s Award for Enterprise and at 26 is the youngest ever recipient. Jamie is a great example of someone who saw a gap in the market and made his idea happen, entering an established high street market with [...] 1

Are you a once thriving business now on the verge of insolvency? Is your community relying on your survival? We have a successful and renowned entrepreneur who is looking to buy such a company and turn it around. Should he find the right one, a tv team will follow him as he attempts to do [...] 0

At Make Your Mark, we’re very interested in what exactly spurs people on to become entrepreneurs. Is it nature or nurture? Are there certain qualities that all or almost all entrepreneurs have in common? And how might these typical features have changed? As this article suggests, some of the assumptions people might have made 25 [...] 2