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icount.co.uk provide a prepaid MasterCard which is especially useful for small business owners who (for whatever reason) are finding it hard to be accepted by standard high street banks. Launched in 2015, the service is available to all business owners, but is especially useful for those with a poor credit history. Follow @icount_money on Twitter and @icount.money on Facebook.

Forget Finances: Fear of Failure is the Biggest Barrier for Creatives

Mar 15, 2017 By icount

The creative industry has quickly become a fundamental sector for many advanced economies, especially the UK. Last year, gov.uk reported that, in total, creative business were providing around £9.6m (~ US$ 11.7m) every hour to the economy, making the industry one of the UK’s greatest economic achievements in recent years. As such, ambitious creatives looking […]

Small Biz Gems

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
A lecturer, poet, and essayist, Ralph Waldo Emerson was the leading voice of the New England Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century, which valued insight over logic while also advocating for humanity’s inherent goodness. This revelation comes from the closing paragraph of “Circles,” a chapter in his 1841 book Essays, First Series.

“I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business.” —Warren Buffet

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” —Thomas Edison

“You can’t ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.” —Steve Jobs

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