If you're out of a job for any reason at all, this campaign is important to you.
There are literally hundreds of thousands of small or medium sized businesses in Britain that would like to expand, and would like (or need!) to employ more people - and they would, if they could. The campaign aims to create a climate that would make that possible.
In order to make sure that the campaign has the maximum impact and achieves the desired results, the Forum of Private Business, which has launched the campaign, needs as many SMEs as possible to support the campaign and its aims by going to Get Britain Trading , and signing up to the 'Get Britain Trading' pledge.
Signing up costs nothing and takes seconds - actually, signing up, downloading the logo you can see on the right of this blog, and putting it into place took me, an admitted IT idiot, less than a minute. And it will be on our website tomorrow.
If you know anyone who has an SME, please ask them to sign the pledge and display the logo on their website or blog. If you have started up in business yourself - sign up to the campaign today, and get as many other SME people to sign up as you can.
Any SME owner who puts in an e-mail address - and I did - will get a free guide giving practical and expert advice on common small business issues like bank lending, late payment and cost reduction.
We ALL need the changes that this campaign could bring about if it gets the support it deserves. Please do try to make that happen by spreading the word or taking the pledge here .
Geoff - http://www.metlissbarfield.com/
