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• It's likely to be a brief recession and any notion that boom and bust exists only in economic history is well and truly discredited. Suddenly, how recession-proof a business is matters.
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• Recession-proof industries
• A guide to businesses that are immune from recession, and those which are robust by dint of being the right side of history.
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• Starting a small business in a recession
• Recession is looming, but that needn’t put you off starting a small business. Some businesses are recession-proof, recession-resistant or actually perform better during a downturn.
• See more in: recession, food, luxury goods, healthcare, debt collection, solicitors, schools, maintenance, funeral parlour, franchise, grey pound, recession proof business

• Chasing bad debt: credit control tips
• Don't be afraid to go after money owed to you - you've every right to, and you can't afford not to.
• See more in: Formations Direct, credit control, bad debt, guide

• Due dilligence checklist
• After signing an agreement in principle, but before signing a binding contract, you need to conduct a comprehensive MOT - to use a motoring analogy - of the business.
• See more in: buy a business, due dilligence, guide

• Five top tax tips
• Finance broker Henry Edjelbaum doesn't want you to pay any more tax than you have to.
• See more in: tax, VAT, VAT deregistration, VAT Bad Debt Relief, VAT Cash Accounting Scheme, income tax, tips

• Know your market
• A series of workshops are being held at the British Library Business and IP Centre in London in the second half of 2007.
• See more in: seminars, market research, British Library, Yellow Pages, workshops, news

• Bad debt: the zero-tolerance approach
• No-nonsense advice on handling bad business debt during the credit crunch.
• See more in: bad debt, credit control, credit, debt, disputes, solicitor, cashflow, guide, law, credit crunch

• Felix Dennis
• To be a poet is to lead a life of perpetual inner torment and outer penury. Not so publisher and wordsmith Felix Dennis: he's worth £715m.
• See more in: Felix Dennis, publishing, magazines, poetry, entrepreneur, famous, , profile

• A guide to raising business finance
• A guide to the different types of business finance available to small business, from corporate law solicitor Mary Erb.
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• How to improve your credit score
• It's harder to raise finance than ever, so enhancing your credit rating is imperative for those of you with a chequered credit history.
• See more in: credit rating, finance, funding, loans, guide

• Small business money-saving tips
• A top accountant gives five top tips on how to save money when doing your accounts.
• See more in: accounting, tips, tax, bad debt, credit control, cashflow, company registration, expenses

• No green shoots just yet
• There's still a way to go in this recession, says Michael Challiner of Brokers Online, who is deeply unimpressed by the government's strategy thus far.
• See more in: recession, credit crunch, Alistair Darling, Gordon Brown, VAT, news analysis

• Buy a launderette
• As the nation gets busier and houses get smaller, the launderette is experiencing a renaissance...
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• Bill Gates
• Accused of ruthlessly stifling the merest germination of competition in the software industry, who'd have thought that the world's richest man would take pity on life's unfortunates?
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