Working Your Way Through the Current Climate

Kicking off our new series, presenter Sean Walsh, interviewed MD of the BCC, John Dunsmure, to give us some insight into recent research carried out by Dell that brought about the development of smallbusinessadvice.tv. According to the survey, a quarter of small business owners said that while they were enthusiastic about the beneficial role TV rogrammes like Dragon's Den and The Apprentice play in educating and encouraging would-be entrepreneurs, they felt programmes like these helped to dumb down the public's perception of real business and that they didn't help viewers deal with real business situations. 75 per cent of respondents also said they would be interested in seeing more relevant specialist business programming for small businesses on the Internet for live viewing or download. A quarter made it known that they would specifically like to see online programmes that allowed them to interact with and put questions to experts in a live show format.

So in answer to your request, here is our first show of Smallbusinessadvice.tv, and joining Sean and John on the sofa was Nigel Shanahan, MD of Rapide Communications, fresh from his company's win at the The Chamber Awards 2008, which recognise and celebrate business excellence. We also had a round up of all the latest small business news from the BCC.