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Name: Michael Williams
Date registered: May 30, 2011

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  1. Chester students set up Enterprise Society — December 10, 2011
  2. Michael Williams – Published Poet — October 16, 2011
  3. A Level Exam Results — August 21, 2011
  4. Michael Williams Featured in UCEA’s Student Focus — April 7, 2011
  5. Business owners are getting younger — March 30, 2011

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  1. £1 in every 4 on Advertising is now spent online — 3 comments

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Dec
10

Chester students set up Enterprise Society

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Michael Williams and the CES team

Business Management and Entrepreneurship students at the University of Chester have teamed up to form the university’s first enterprise society, aimed at boosting business and leadership skills amongst students across campus. Featured in the Chester Chronicle (December 8, 2011) and at the University’s website the society announced it’s launch event, a Christmas fair held on …

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Oct
16

Michael Williams – Published Poet

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Whilst sorting out my huge collection of books this week I came across 2 books that had been collecting a lot of dust on my shelf and I suddenly remembered: ‘I’m a published writer!’. Whilst at school I entered a competition to write a poem, the prize was to be included in a published book …

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Aug
21

A Level Exam Results

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As anyone who follows me on Twitter will already have seen, I am proud to announce that I was one of many A Level students celebrating getting excellent grades this year. I completed the final year of my Applied Business Studies course this year in which I achieved A*A grades When added to the other …

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Apr
07

Michael Williams Featured in UCEA’s Student Focus

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I have been featured in the University Church of England Academy’s Compass Magazine. Talking about how I became a Managing Director as as well as being a student completing A levels. The ‘Student Focus’ article reads: ‘I have always loved computers and the idea of being a business man, when I was 12 I was …

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Mar
30

Business owners are getting younger

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Fact. According to research by insurance company Simply Business,.On average, the age of small business is owners has been declining since 2007, predominantly due to an increasing number of young entrepreneurs. Between 2007 and 2010, there was a 6.5% increase in the number of people aged between 25 and 34 who owned a business. There …

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Mar
29

£1 in every 4 on Advertising is now spent online

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The amount spend on online advertising grew by 12.8% in 2010 to a whopping £4 billion! This continues to growing trend for businesses, small and large to switch from more traditional advertising mediums to the, often more powerful, online equivalents. TV Advertising is restricted to large organisations thanks to the massive costs that are involved. Radio advertising …

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Dec
04

GPTBoycott.com – Fighting the GPT Scams

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There are probably millions of ‘Get Paid To’, Rewards and Cashback Sites out there and its hard to choose which ones to use, its also hard to tell which ones to trust with your time and effort. After all, if they’re not trustworthy, then you’re time and effort of clicking and completing offers all goes …

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Nov
28

Percentages and VAT

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In business you often have to work out percentages of figures, quite often sums of money. For example, if you’re a business selling to another business (B2B), you will have to work out the rate of VAT on an item you have sold. In most business to business transactions you will add the VAT on …

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Nov
24

BTEC National Diploma for IT Practitioners

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btec national diploma certificate

Got my certificate today for my BTEC National Diploma for IT Practitioners (IT and Business). I achieved a Distinction and Two Merits for the course which I started in year 10, aged 14 (2 years earlier than the normal age for starting this course). I completed the course last year and finally got my certificate …

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Nov
22

Gillian Mckeith is not as silly as you think

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‘Gillian Mckeith’ ‘Gillian Mckeith ‘Gillian Mckeith’ is all I’ve heard on TV, on the Radio, on the news websites and on social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Many people are making comments about her, and I’ve seen endless Facebook pages and groups along the lines of  ’why has Gillian Mckeith gone into the jungle if …

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