School for Startups is the UK’s leading provider of business training for entrepreneurs, with lots of useful information on their website and regular one-day business courses across the country. It is the inspiration of serial entrepreneur and angel investor Doug Richard, who many of you will know as a ‘dragon’ or investor in the first [...]

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As popular BBC Two TV series Dragon’s Den returns to our screens on Wednesday 15th July, some of the UK’s best known online entrepreneurs have announced the launch of a new investment fund to assist digital start up businesses. With the online industry continuing to prove its worth during these difficult times, this news is [...]

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently announced the world is now in the grip of what will become known as the “great recession” by future generations and, at the beginning of March this year, British companies confirmed 104, 810 job losses in the last four months.
Having listened to the news and speaking to friends and [...]

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We’re excited to announce that Azam Marketing will be lending its support to April’s a4uexpo Europe event by sponsoring the bags given out during the course of the conference and exhibition.
As any regular exhibition-attender knows, these bags are invaluable for placing handouts and freebies! 
Yagmur Guven, Senior Strategic Partnerships Manager at Azam Marketing, who has had considerable [...]

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With all the bad news surrounding the economy, it’s easy to get swallowed up by the general feeling of doom and gloom. But does every cloud have a silver lining? Azam Marketing’s Senior Account Manager Karen Clayton takes a look at the success stories of the credit crunch.

In today’s hard times, it’s pleasing to hear that there are [...]

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With the credit crunch letting leash on the UK and global economy, we have started to see numerous changes transpiring as organisations are forced to make redundancies and limit marketing spend. Some companies are choosing to reduce affiliate marketing commissions and even close programs entirely. However, The Co-operative Travel is a reinvigorated company with a [...]

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On Wednesday I braved the snow and attended another Econsultancy Manchester Digital Shorts event. Ian Jindal is a firm favourite of the Azam team and I went to see his review of Christmas 2008 trading results as well as predictions for developments in e-commerce in 2009.
The British are among the most recent group of online purchasers in the Western world, yet [...]

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By Rosie Beasley

Everyone is looking for money-saving ideas right now, and business owners are no different. While large companies are saving money by laying off employees, the small business must be more creative as its staff is often too valuable to let go.

In times of rising inflation and high prices, cash flow management is more [...]

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It ceased to amaze me a long time ago how easy it was to manipulate the rank and file in society and, with enough marketing guile, be able to influence what they say and do (today is the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht), but what still astonishes me is how the supposedly smartest and best educated [...]

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Asad Alex Yawar is a London-based lawyer and writer who I first met in the mid-1990s when we were both journalists on a socio-cultural news magazine. One of the most acute commentators I have had the honour of crossing paths with, his writing has often been antithetical to the ‘received wisdom’ of the time but [...]

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