Recently we spotted a smart little business that focuses on doing one thing well, and presenting it in the simplest manner possible: We Shoot Bottles takes pictures of bottles, using straightforward upfront pricing and an easy process.

A case of beauty in simplicity: any potential customer will immediately understand what the company does and how it might help them.

Due to overwhelming success, the concept's founders have launched a second offshoot: We Shoot Cans. We won't bother explaining what they do ;-) A third version is in the pipeline. We haven't been told what it will focus on. Boxes...? Jars...?

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With Andy Murray flying high in the world tennis rankings and making the quarter-finals of the French Open in Paris , Wimbledon sponsor Robinsons has launched a TV campaign playing on hopes that this year's tournament could provide the first British men's singles champion since Fred Perry more than 70 years ago.

The soft-drinks brand, which has sponsored Wimbledon for almost 75 years, has created an evocative 60-second TV ad featuring viewers tensely watching an unnamed British player, presumably Murray, on the verge of winning the Wimbledon final.

A leading business investment agency has launched a free guide to enable small companies to secure funding in a difficult economic environment.

As the recession hits, small businesses are finding credit hard to come by and in many cases banks are withdrawing established lines of credit. Worse still, debt finance, which was once an attractive option, is set to become an expensive burden.

Debt funding traditionally requires security but for small businesses in a climate of drastically falling house prices this is increasingly difficult to achieve against equity. The upshot is that many small businesses are lacking the working capital required to grow and are now in need of alternative forms of funding.

Chris Lake reports...In the past couple of years we have published a lot of tips on this blog to try to provide readers with practical suggestions on how to optimise their businesses. 

I thought I’d collate some of the best articles to provide you with a feast of ideas to help you improve your websites, strategies and operations. 

Included within these lists are a lot of generic tips for best practice in web strategy, though this is perhaps most relevant to e-commerce professionals...

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Hong Kong's small and medium- sized businesses community is the most bearish on prospects for business growth among seven surveyed by HSBC (0005).

"Hong Kong is deeply entrenched in the global economy and therefore strongly impacted by the slowdown in global trade and overall uncertainty,"  HSBC global head of trade and supply chain Lawrence Webb said.

Forty-six percent of Hong Kong SMEs expect trade volumes to fall in the next three months.

By contrast, 54 percent of trading firms in Vietnam, and 42 percent of mainland firms, expect business to expand, the survey showed.

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