Month: <span>November 2020</span>

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One-in-five of us has been targeted by a financial scam via our phones every week for the past two years.

That’s the figure revealed in a recent study from Equifax, the credit reference agency. Here are more staggering scam statistics revealed by the study…

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After putting the whole country in lockdown on November 5, the Prime Minister has announced that national restrictions will be lifted, as planned, on December 2.

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After the year we’ve had, it’s likely most of us will need a little extra money for the holidays this year.

If you could do with some extra cash, it could be worth considering your own seasonal start-up.

Here are some ideas for how you could make some extra festive cash with your own Christmas business.

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2020 has been a tough year for all of us, and if you’ve been placed on furlough during lockdowns or you’ve had the misfortune of losing your job – even if you’ve just had enough of everything want to work for yourself –  it might be worth considering starting up your own venture.

This could either be by doing your current job on a freelance basis or starting up your own new business.

Starting out can be costly though, in terms of both time and money, so it’s often a good idea to kick things off by working from home – you may even have no choice but to do so in the current climate.

But what businesses work well when started from home? Here are our top home business start up ideas.

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Although never the healthiest of pursuits, post-work drinks – whether alcoholic or otherwise – offered an opportunity way to wind down after a day at work and connect with colleagues outside of the nine-to-five.

The coronavirus pandemic has all but put paid to this ritual and, more seriously, an end to us even mixing in the workplace.

Although we’re big advocates of the benefits of working from home, lockdown has taught us that it can lead to unhappiness and mental health issues when it’s forced upon people and it’s full time. Especially for anyone who struggles to separate home and worklife when the commute is taken out of the equaiton.

That’s why Jimmy Williams of Urban Jungle is now putting money into mental health, rather than team socials.

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If you’re in business and not using social media to promote your products you’re missing a trick – not only do platforms like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram offer free, effective marketing tools, they also provide a great way to interact with customers in real time.

And, as anyone who knows social media knows, hashtags are a vital marketing tool – so here are the top 20 Twitter hashtags for business…

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If you use online banking, whether in a personal or professional capacity, you need to be aware of the threat posed by hackers.

Although security measures within the financial sector have evolved dramatically in recent years, hackers are responding to the challenge with ever more devious ways to separate you from your hard-earned cash. As we reported last week, hackers currently have a sophisticated banking scam on the go whereby taking an initial amount from your account is just the pretext to an even greater attack.

With this in mind, here are the top five biggest cyber security threats of 2020.

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