"Call for a ceasefire" on global #MicroBizMattersDay January 8 2016

The annual, global #MicroBizMattersDay, where micro (0-9 employees) enterprise owners give at least eight minutes to help another, takes place on January 8 2016. In the UK alone, the ONS have announced, there are a record 5.2 million micro businesses, 96% of all, with 4.1 million having no employees. This is a growth of 900,000 micro businesses in the last five years. The co-founders of #MicroBizMattersDay, Tina Boden and Tony Robinson OBE, have called for a day of "collaboration not competition".

Tina Boden said: 'It is a day of Recognition, Action and Learning with over one million micro business owners helping each other on the day. Like this year there will be 8 hours of live broadcasting and streaming and we have over 60 fabulous - famous and not so famous - business owner guests joining us.

It is a great day but it will be so much greater if the major on-line and off-line business membership organisations and large corporations with micro business customers can put aside their rivalries for just one day and promote it as beneficial for all.

Fabulous friends of #MicroBizMattersDay like Penny Power OBE, Tim Campbell MBE and the world's most famous, millionaire plumber, Charlie Mullins OBE are all giving their time free to help the day. So, let your customers and members benefit from their advice."

Tony Robinson OBE added: "Since we launched the global Enterprise Rockers movement in January 2012 and #MicroBizMattersDay in October 2014 we have made it clear that we're not a membership organisation, we're not selling anything to micro enterprise owners and we don't collect contact details. We're completely independent of Governments, our supporters and sponsors. Tina and I fund everything for the day to day running from our own businesses. We have four global campaigns of which the most important are #PayIn30Days and #Indie25ER and we have only one aim which is to build the #PowerOfPlenty through global #MicroBizMattersDay to make business life better for the 95% of businesses that are micro.

Please follow the lead of organisations like Fujitsu, Sage and Aldermore Bank who back the concept of collaboration and the values behind #MicroBizMattersDay. Please promote it to your customers. Follow the lead of our PR Partner - JournoLink, our Media Partner - Start Your Business Magazine and our Studios/Venue Partner - Portobello Business Centre and be willing to collaborate with your competition for just this one day in the year. Follow the lead of Business Zone, IAB, Kaal Network, North Notts BC and hundreds of other membership organisations and allow your members and subscribers to benefit from the recognition, action and learning available, free to all, on the Day."

More details are available at http://MicroBizMattersDay.rocks where a #RockingSupporters brochure for #MicroBizMattersDay Jan 8 2016 can be downloaded or email TonyRobinsonOBE@gmail.com


About TONY ROBINSON OBE

Tony Robinson OBE is the Micro Business Champion. He is an authority on enterprise and entrepreneurship and is a professional speaker, broadcaster and campaigner (#PayIn30Days). His Conference Keynote to leaders of all sizes of an organisation entitled 'Spirit of Enterprise - Do Not Bottle It' and a one hour 'Micro is Beautiful - business as if people cared' Show' suggesting to business owners there is a better way than the American Way to start up, survive and thrive. Tony founded the government recognised SFEDI Group in 1996 and co-owns. In 2012 he founded, with Tina Boden the annual #MicroBizMatters Day backed by all the national small business membership organisations, Tony runs his own businesses. He has an OBE for services to small firms (2001) and has received 2-lifetime awards for enterprise. He is Patron of the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank, Judge for NatWest Great British Entrepreneur Awards. and Chair of Yorkshire in Business Ltd.