Says 2006 Already a Bumper Year for Small Businesses Says Largest SME Advice Forum

The UK's most popular small business advice forum has reported that users are having a bumper 2006 so far.

(PRWEB) February 9, 2006 -- UKBusinessforums.co.uk Says 2006 Already a Bumper Year for Small Businesses

One month into the New Year and already small businesses across the UK are reporting increased like for like sales according to the UK’s most popular, free to use, small business advice and help forum, UKbusinessforums.co.uk.

Members of the forum are reporting that January has so far seen a big increase in sales when compared to the previous year and this is showing no signs of slowing down. It would also appear that the healthy climate is inspiring other budding entrepreneurs to make the jump and start up their own business.

Ukbusinessforums.co.uk is now the most popular website for small to medium sized enterprises (SME’s) in the UK, in terms of number of daily posts made by business owners looking for free help and advice.

The person who kicked off the discussion about the business climate so far in 2006 is Tony Castle, owner of the successful business, www.sitepal.co.uk. Tony commented, “To be honest I thought this year may be slow but for some unknown reason my business volumes have doubled”.

Richard Osborne, the owner and successful entrepreneur behind www.ukbusinesforums.co.uk commented, “It’s great that the forum can give small business owners the chance to discuss and share ideas about business growth and success stories and the site also aims to give SME’s the opportunity to get their voice heard about the positives and negatives of running a small business in the UK”.

A number of high profile entrepreneurs have seen their businesses grow as a result of the help, support and advice from other forum users including Roses By Design, owned by Mark Pearson. His business idea was conceived, researched and taken to market with the help of UKbusinessforum members and his unique idea of printing images and words onto real roses is proving so successful and innovative that they have now featured on the TV show This Morning.

Editor’s Notes:

* For further information, contact:

-Richard Osborne – 0870 432 5544 or,

-Andy Barr – 10 Yetis PR & Marketing, 0774 305 7458

* UK Business Forums UK is an independent, none government funded, organisation that aims to give a louder voice about the things that really matter to the UK SME market

* The survey sample was over 400 small business owners.

* For more information about Roses by Design visit; www.rosesbydesign.co.uk

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