http://onlinebusinessinitiative.com/news Helping entrepreneurs to build their business online Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:23:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It has been reported that consumers favour their expense on broadband internet than new clothes, foreign holidays and nights out. New research from the communications watchdog, Ofcom, highlights that only groceries and personal care products are more important than access to the Internet. Peter Phillips, Ofcom's partner for strategy and market development, ... http://onlinebusinessinitiative.com/news/good-news/the-internet-beats-summer-holidays Online retailers remain confident that they will prosper during the recession, a new business survey by eBay indicates. Almost two thirds of the 410 businesses polled from eBay's top 2,000 sellers list said they were confident about the future and more than three quarters ... http://onlinebusinessinitiative.com/news/good-news/online-retailers-far-outstrip-high-street GDP contracted by 1.6pc in the fourth quarter of 2008, revised down from a contraction of 1.5pc, the Office for National Statistics reported. The quarterly fall of 1.6pc was the sharpest decline since 1980. Construction output tumbled 4.9pc over the quarter, revised down from a fall of 1.1pc. The ONS said ... http://onlinebusinessinitiative.com/news/latest/uk-economy-slows-sharper-than-expected We have a quick 3 minute survey for you, and we'll give you these 3 valuable gifts in return: OBI is intent on providing the most effective solution for people wishing to get ahead with Internet business. We value your views and want to give you these gifts... So go ahead and complete ... http://onlinebusinessinitiative.com/news/members/take-our-quick-survey-for-free-gifts comScore (NASDAQ : SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, have released online spending data by category for the online holiday shopping season, which showed that trends in online spending outperformed offline in several key product categories. The study compared comScore e-commerce data to overall (online and offline) consumer spending ... http://onlinebusinessinitiative.com/news/good-news/online-spending-trends-outperform-brick-and-mortar [caption id="" align="alignright" width="220" caption="Job centre queue"][/caption] The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) said there had been a continued weakness in the labour market in recent weeks, with job vacancies falling at record levels. Increasing numbers of workers being made redundant was coinciding with fewer new job opportunities becoming available. There were sharp ... http://onlinebusinessinitiative.com/news/latest/job-vacancies-in-record-fall WOOLWORTHS is to be re-launched as a web only business. Sir David and Sir Patrick Barclay have bought the much-loved chain along with Ladybird, the childrens brand it owned, for a price of "more than £1", according to Mark Newton Jones, CEO of the Shop Direct group, the Barclays' shell company ... http://onlinebusinessinitiative.com/news/good-news/woolworths-relaunches-as-online-business High-earning professionals such as architects, quantity surveyors and lawyers are joing the dole queue at a faster rate than any other type of worker, new figures have revealed. The number of tax advisers, commercial pilots and underwriters out of work and claiming benefits has also more than doubled in a year, ... http://onlinebusinessinitiative.com/news/latest/high-earning-professionals-lead-dole-queue With more and more workers seeing their livelihoods threatened by rising unemployment, entrepreneurship is being seen as a new way out, according to the results of arecent survey released Friday by the online employment broker 104 Job Bank. The survey found that 81.6 percent of workers are interested in starting a ... http://onlinebusinessinitiative.com/news/good-news/over-80-of-workers-interested-in-entrepreneurship-survey The number of large companies going bust leapt by 250% in the last three months of 2008 as the economic downturn took its toll. Consumers also felt the pain asa the number of bankruptcies last year soared to the highest level since records began nearly 50 years ago. The total number of ... http://onlinebusinessinitiative.com/news/latest/250-jump-in-bust-companies