Image Making is a business and most governments offer business grants to help with various aspects of your activities. So whether you are a commercial photographer, graphic or web designer or other creative, if you are in business you should at least consider grants. Whatever country you live in, your federal, state and local governments will probably offer grants to businesses for various purposes. Just because your business may be photography, design or something similar, this is no reason why you should not have access to grant money. Governments support business in many ways. One of these is through grants and entitlements. Entitlements mean that if you meet certain criteria you are entitled to some money. A grant, on the other hand, may be competitive and there is no guarantee that you … Read entire article »

There are lots of places you can get sound business advice, but have you thought of Dell? When it comes to getting good information about your business you tend not to think of your computer company. But Dell has taken the initiative and setup Small Business Centres on at least some of its national websites. Dell’s Australian website has its own Small Business Centre called Small Business 360. Dell US has its own Small Business 360 site, as does the Dell UK site. In fact it seems that if you access the local Dell site and put /sb360 on the end you will get their local Small Business site (www.dell.com/sb360, www.dell.com.au/sb360 or www.dell.co.uk/sb360).  Unfortunately it does not seem to work for New Zealand. On these sites you will find articles, case studies, videos and free … Read entire article »