Small & medium business

Are petrol prices bringing your business to a standstill?

Author: Hannah Gilchrist
Date: 17/03/2010

As if the rise in the price of petrol up to £1.20 a litre wasn’t bad enough, the Chancellor is set to increase fuel duty as of April 2010, pilling more pressure on businesses. But it doesn’t mean you have to pull your business onto the hard shoulder.

While the 3p rise in duty is the last thing small businesses need to worry about, now could be the best time to ditch the car and try out conference calling. Cutting out unnecessary travel can help reduce those future petrol bills, plus help with productivity and improve employees’ work-life balance.

Over the phone, internet or via video, conference calling no longer means participants need to huddle around one loudspeaker. Up to 40 people can join one call direct from their desks no matter if they’re in the same city, county or country.

Still not enough? Why not try out web conferencing, which lets participants share, view and discuss documents and presentations in real time.

Timely, efficient and more productive than hours in the car, conferencing could be just what your business needs to save money.

Comments

  • Date:

    19-Mar-2010

    Author:

    Rupert Everitt

    Not very helpful....it is rather difficult to carry out tree surgery or install a gate over the telephone!

  • Date:

    23-Mar-2010

    Author:

    AJ

    What a stupid article. How does this help small businesses with deliveries and staff getting to work.

  • Date:

    23-Mar-2010

    Author:

    Setting Up Business

    I would like you to know that Setting Up Business is not that easy and it's not that hard. The most important in wolrd of business is you most commit and add some motivation in work so that this business will bring you into successfull one. But there are times that we fail our business..I think this is part of the business..ahehhe..

  • Date:

    24-Mar-2010

    Author:

    Stephen Everett

    This time last year all of my clients were based in London, Essex and Middlesex, costing me a whopping £1,390 on petrol, for the first three months of 2009. Six months ago I set about establishing a new client base closer to home, which is in Peterborough. Not only have I significantly increased the number of clients I have, I've reduced my travel time and I've reduced my spend on petrol for the first three months of 2010, by £965, down to £425. I achieved this by developing a management system that conforms to the 'Investors in the Environment' accreditation scheme being launched by PECT in April 2010. For more information about the scheme you can log on to www.protectandpreserve.co.uk

  • Date:

    06-Apr-2010

    Author:

    IP

    I agree with AJ, this article is irrelavent to a good percentage of businesses. But at least there is now the possibility (general election in May) to see if another party can penalise motorists, as well as Labour has doneover the last decade?

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