WinWeb’s Pitch of the Week winner this week is Kat Waring, the owner of Lily Waring Intimates . Kat started her own business in 2007, after many years of dreaming about running her own company. Lily Waring Intimates is an online store selling lingerie, with free UK deilvery Read more about Kat’s small business story here , and if you would like to enter WinWeb’s Pitch of the Week competition visit our Facebook page for more information – you could win superb free publicity for your small business! winweb.com – Software and business services online to start and run a small business – free trial and 100+ free business ideas.

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WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Lily Waring Intimates

This week (somewhat delayed and contracted thanks to lots of travel and little time) we have a quick round-up of last week’s news from ChinaBlogTweets , our Twitter feed. Enjoy:

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Briefly….Top Ten Tweets (From Relationships, Gifts & Jeepzters, To Soft Protectionism, The Everywhere Party & Prison)

As regular readers of my blog will know I am passionate about small businesses and believe that the best way to start a small business is to use bootstrapping techniques. Bootstrapping means using money that comes in to your business to grow your business; avoiding taking loans or finance in order to start your business

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Social Media Basics for Bootstrap Businesses

Service providers are under pressure to differentiate themselves from the competitors, to be more innovative in creating new services, and to move towards a lower-cost operating model by reducing operational complexity. In a situation where mobile voice revenues are stable or declining, and mobile roaming charges are under attack by regulatory bodies, Vodafone was looking to create innovative new services for their business customers that would bring new revenue streams with reduced operational cost

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Next-Generation Managed Services – Vodafone Adopts a New Operating Model

WinWeb’s Pitch of the Week winner this week is Emily Rogers, the owner of Sarasvati Arts, and designer of the Buddha Wheel . Laura is a mum of two from Totnes, Devon who started her business after realising the amazingly positive effect that meditation had on her epilepsy. Her vision to enabling and empower people to grow their small ideas is inspiring.

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WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Sarasvati Arts

David Meerman Scott gives an overview of his new book World Wide Rave, which features ideas and case studies about organizations that have done a great job of creating content that spreads. This is the final in a series of videos conducted by Stacy Spognardi of Cisco focused on opening up a discussion about social media within the service provider community (and beyond)

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Social Media Marketing for Service Providers – David M. Scott: Content Creation, Part 7

Contributed by Richard Medcalf, Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) Global Innovations Practice Buying flowers for your loved one is a great thing to do: it creates goodwill and strengthens the relationship and makes the house look and smell nice. Why would you not want to do that

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Femtocells: Implementing a Better Business Model to Increase SP Profitability

We are pleased to promote this upcoming China event, where we will be represented on the panel… A Joint HBS Alumni Club of London and LBS Alumni Club Event: INTERESTING TIMES – WHITHER CHINA ? “China’s growth continues to fascinate, perplex and trouble western observers

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Event: Interesting Times – Wither China? London 24 June, HBS Alumni Club of London

Now that the dust has settled, we once again take a look at the pick of last week’s news (taken from our ChinaBlogTweets Twitter feed). Our summary is followed by a list of the original tweets and links to the news sources

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Briefly…Top Ten Tweets (From FDI, Gini & Tragedy, To Confidence, Research & Negotiation)

While we all hope to make our customers 100% happy all of the time, and this must of course be what we strive for, there will be occasions where a customer is less than happy with the service you have provided. Even if your customer service is second to none misunderstanding and technical faults can still occur, so it is important to consider procedures for dealing with unhappy customers

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The Customer Is Always Right!

In this brief interview shot on the floor of the Cable Show in Los Angeles, Cisco CTO of Service Provider Video Technology Group, Ken Morse discusses the elements of making the IP video transition. Personal computers, laptops, game consoles, portable screens – feeding them video means plumbing the pipe for Internet Protocol.

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IP Video: Bridging Legacy to Now

John Chapman, Cisco Fellow and Chief Architect, discusses the viability of DOCSIS 3.0 versus all-fiber implementations, in this Part 2 interview from the floor of The Cable Show in Los Angeles. What’s a better roadmap: DOCSIS or all-fiber?

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The Future of IP Video and DOCSIS: John Chapman, Part Two

WinWeb’s Pitch of the Week winner this week is Kelvin Thom, the owner of Digistar Solutions . Kelvin started Digistar solutions in March this year and his story is typical of small business owners across the world; that owning a small business is hard work, but that he wouldn’t change it for the world. You can read more about Kelvin’s small business story on the WinWeb Business Blog

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WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Digistar Solutions

Hi again! Following last week’s post I thought it was worth a quick update. We actively follow cloud commentators on the web/twitter/social net and were pleased to see Cisco being mentioned in the cloud computing space. TechTarget published its list of Top Cloud Computing Leaders last week – and Cisco’s own Chris Hoff was mentioned in this list along with the likes of Larry Ellison, Marc Benioff, Vivek Kundra and others

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Cloud Computing’s Top 10

Since my last posting on Real Time Services , I have been thinking about the Internet being at an inflection point, specifically, the impact to sustainable architecture development due to content distribution that is relevant for consumers. Recall, from the April blog post that characterizing “real time” could be in the form of video, telepresence, voice, on-line games as examples, where mitigating latency is a must e.g

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Managing the Cloud

Last week’s news has been sifted and sorted from our Twitter feed, ChinaBlogTweets , and we are pleased to present our highlights below… The UN’s latest projected growth rate for China is 9.5% in 2010.

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Briefly…Top Ten Tweets (From Consumer Brands, Growth & Reverse Innovation, To Lobbying, Non-Strategy & Digital Generations)

WinWeb’s first Pitch of the Week winner is the Business Opportunities and Ideas website . The BOAI website is a blog specifically written for those starting or running a small business. The entry in to the WinWeb Pitch of the Week competition was made by John Crickett, founder of the website.

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WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Business Opportunities and Ideas

Last week’s news, from our ChinaBlogTweets Twitter feed, has been filtered for some of the most relevant business news. Worries about China’s business environment (for foreign businesses) continue, and state secrets and indigenous innovation are fanning the flames. Some protectionist moves perhaps, but for FDI the message is that you must comply

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Briefly…Top Ten Tweets (From State Secrets & Indigenous Innovation, To Shanghai Expo & IP Innovatisation)

Earlier today in Paris, our customer Numericable announced that its customers will soon have available the world’s first true high-definition (HD) 3D video-on-demand service- based on the Cisco Content Delivery System (CDS) platform.

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High Definition 3D: Soon on the Screen Nearest to You

When people speak about a small business being efficient they can be referring to both time and money. As a small business owner being inefficient in either respect can be a huge mistake, perhaps not only causing you stress and financial difficulties, but maybe also your business.

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How Efficient Is Your Small Business?

The need for speed is a dominant requirement for the next generation mobile experience. As that experience becomes richer, more integrated (or “meshy” as I like to say…) with other applications, and certainly more visual in nature, our patience level as consumers, ironically, decreases. Forget that we may be travelling 70 mph on a highway or in the interior of crowded building, our expectation for a great, fast experience is only getting higher.

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How Fast Are You? There’s an App for That.

The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. Communicate with your employees and tweet instead of emailing. Encourage feedback from clients out in the open, even if not all of it is positive

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Top 5 Innovative Twitter Uses

The WinWeb.com Small Business Competition that I mentioned in my last blog post has made me think about the way entrepreneurs work and the effect that a surge of entrepreneurship could have on the economy, worldwide. In the UK alone, SME’s account for 99.9% of all enterprises, providing 59.4% of private sector employment and 50.1% of private sector turnover.

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The Spirit of the Entrepreneur

A quick catch-up of last week’s most noteworthy news from on our ChinaBlogTweets Twitter feed. Of course, the Shanghai Expo is starting to get a lot of exposure – even before the official, May 1, opening (and the holiday that goes with it). Initial reactions have been mixed, and there is clearly a lot of queuing to be done.

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Briefly…Top Ten Tweets (From Expo, Trials, & Frugal Innovation, To Employment Contracts, Investment & Procurement Policies)

As regular readers of my blog you will know that I am passionate about small businesses, and want to see the awful mortality rate of small businesses fall dramatically. That is why my company, WinWeb.com , have started a regular feature to help small businesses to increase their profile, and even improve their SEO

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Is Your Small Business Worth Shouting About?