Following inability to acquire support that enables an enterprise to "start", the project is testing an "advertising platform", through which it aims to trade to cover operating costs. No trading has taken place, although we have provisionally agreed to take orders.

The market testing should give an indication of how useful the planned feature is to the website.

The last news entry was the day before Social Enterprise Day. Following that day, the project has been having an identity crisis. The business and its strong social element has all the haul marks of a Social Enterprise, yet it was planned as a business.

It seems our identity crisis is over. We are a Social Enterprise, however we are an enterprise that is not funded by a government body or financing agent. We are a true business run for the benefit of the community it serves.

Thank you to Global Enterprise Week.

Our newly formed project learned of Global Entrepreneur Week on the Saturday before it started. We asked for ticked when Sift Media asked for people to submit their email addresses. We later found that only "high profile" people could attend. That said, Monday we watched and on Tuesday we engaged.

What a roller coaster. Very few of the community we had spoken to during the course of the project had ever heard of it. But, it is mainly targeted at teaching children the values of entrepreneurship. What a great idea. As a collective body that is building support in the SME community we were keen to survey our followers and see if todays entrepreneurs were getting the support on offer. 50/50. So we've been chipping in and trying to support from the side line. If we'd have known we could have done so much more. Tomorrow is Social Enterprise Day.

It should be another fun packed day of issues, debate and discussion.

This is big news for the project...it's one of our communication tools. It's arrived. At last. Ready to test drive. http://blog.top10tips.co.uk

Roll-up, roll-up.

We are on Page 21 of Big G for "small business marketing tips" on UK search. Tom believes as there are only 183,000 results he can get us top of Page 1 with a simple video post.

How smart is @surreymarketing

But we need to find him something. A video...not any old video. Tom wants an audio interview with a project member, author or contributor. Do you want some free PR?

Contact us via @top10board

A Data Protection Policy has been released following the release of your Social Networking Policy. The two are inter-twined and we needed one before the other. The Data Protection Policy outlines how the project actually holds very little data and intends to hold very little data about its website visitors.

Having a Data Protection policy helps build trust. This is all part of what a small business should do to build credibility. See our Data Prtoection Policy here.

Our first policy has been created and delivered by Alex Cohen of Xander Marketing. Alex runs a small business as is keen to lead by example and put his stamp on the project. We were really impressed by the standard of work and feel that Xander Marketing are clearly able to demonstrate best practice.

This policy is quite critical as we have been waiting to start using our social networking tools to greater effect. Thank You Alex. To read the policy, visit Social Networking Policy.

Click here to visit Xander Marketing.

Creative commons license gives us a widget that allows you to rate our features. Try it out....at the bottom of every feature. Let us know what you think of the features by leaving your mark on the website.

All the useful feedback received has gone in to another revision of the website layout and design to offer the third iteration. We were really hoping a website development company would have sponsored the project by now, but it's okay...user feedback is great and improvements and being made to make the website more attractive.

Click here to take part in the website review.

The website is now averaging over 100 unique visitors per day and saw over 1,000 visitors hit the website in the first 10 days of its second month. We're pleased. Reports continue to arrive about how useful the site is becoming.

After falling out of the search engine listing on the Big G, we returned back to the first page for our search term...this is great. Nobody is actually searching for our Keyphrase, but we are content. We are on page 1, and have nudged up one place to No.7. Project Team very happy.

Top10Tips.co.uk has adopted the word 'responsibility' with www.adoptaword.com, because the project aims to raise awareness and put something back just like us. Both bodies work hard to provide opportunities to communicate for both organisations and individuals that traditionally have not had a voice.

Follow suit visit Adopt a Word

As part of the nature of this being an open project, we are keen for people to follow the story. We have published the Website Statistics for all to see since July 2009.

We had decided to wait until we hit ten features to decide exactly how to lay things out. The section intro has now been created splitting out the features in to various areas. Design holds 3 features. Marketing and all the others hold a single feature. Start-up and Pre Start-up have been introduced to split start-up issues from small business issues.

If you check today, you will see that the section intro page is now clean and tidy, where as the homepage for Small Business is a little out of line. We will re-introduce this page later in the week.

An SME has been selected to provide our blogging site. We hope to post details of who we have selected and why. In-line with the ethos of the project the blogger will also be blogging about the development of the blog for others to follow. This is integrated marketing at its best. Any wanna bee bloggers you may like to blog this entry.

Re-tweet widget added to website following advice from marketing consultant who is in to social media. What will it do?

Reviewing websites is fun. We like it, most small business owners love doing it and marketing people enjoy it too. We have provided you with a structured way to interact with the project and give us your feedback. The review requires a valid email address to be entered, however, you can choose not to receive updates from us. To take part follow the follow the Interact Now link.

It seems our binding principles of openness and doing what you said you were going to do, have not sat well with a few. Shocking. Project removed from Forum. Lack of trust, despite continual efforts. Perhaps over-kill on our part. Who knows. It is clear that small businesses online seem to scale marketing down to promotion! Is marketing more than promotion? Perhaps this is why there is so much miss direction on the web.

New designs are in the for the small business homepage. The project has been getting it in the neck about how the original page made no sense. The page title was wrong, the information was laid out correctly, la la. It's not like any small biz designer has jumped forward and stepped up to the challenge! But one has arrived...what a great contribution.

However, my reason for messaging you is the top10tips Site. I have managed to spend some considerable time on it over last night and again this morning. What a resource!! Some of the Articles are excellent. I also enjoyed the marketing information. For anyone looking for RELEVANT information, with no bs and written in language that can easily be understood, top10tips is the place to go. I think I mentioned that People like, for example, Brian Tracey, and Andrew Reynolds have made millions out of ambitious People like me by, selling the very same information, many times over. The fact that this Project has been Designed by small Business Owners, FOR small Business Owners is unique, as far as I know. It also makes the content far more credible. Rather than giving you a load of crap for it, XXX Forum should be thanking you for it and it supports the goal of a forum instead of taking away.

Reviewing the traffic levels has been really fun. In July the domain had 1 (one) Unique Visit. Part way through August the url was posted on an SEO forum to engage with the experts. No-one there. So the url was posted on a Business Forum with only a homepage to show. We were laughed off as having a project inconceivable and representing a joke. We pulled 477 unique visits in the first 16 days of the project being online. Someone was interested in something. 16 days in to September we received 883 unique visits with only 6 SME features available. It sounded like more people are interested! Approx. 147 visits per feature is one way to look at it. Will our adverising space sell? We think someone some where will find it an attractive proposition.

Barbara Grehs engaged with the project in early August 2009 and full appreciated the need for an open collective works from specialist practitioners. As a sole practitioner from central london and working with start-ups on strategic marketing, Barbarah fully supports the ethos of the project. 6 weeks later Grehs Marketing issues a short statement of support to guide people towards the project. See url Grehs Marketing. May we also recommend that Barabara runs a small newsletter on local free or low cost organised events for start-ups working in and around Central London and the South East.

Yorkshire PC have been in touch today to confirm the project and its objectives and we set them off with a whole business model for customer retention and making winning new business easier. Visit http://www.yorkshirepc.com if you need your PC fixed in Bradford.

Mathew from c21Web advised that the Top10Tips project may be better looking for other forums to engage in the project...for useful insights pay Matthew a visit at www.c21web.co.uk.

Today we saw something revolutionary...well we thought so. Interaction between at a conference in York by National Federation of Enterprise Agency with delegates, where Dan Martin (Editor of BusinessZone.co.uk) remotely asked Twitter users for questions for him to post directly to the panel.

This project has only been on the web for 28 days. We think this was great. It was a two way communication between the panel and people on Twitter. The panel included various business spokespeople, ministers and other politicians. URL:Click Here

Alan Stevens AKA MediaCoach, gave us the Twitter definition of Public Relations during his 30 minute Twitter PRClinic. He defined it as: PR is the art of raising your profile and enhancing your reputation, using both traditional and social media. We will all be listening in to Alan on Radio 5 tomorrow morning.

To support the small business forum world, we have booked some banner advertising and New Media agency Code 9 Design are contributing an 468x60 pixel advert to attract specialists to contribute from the forum.

As the project builds steam and moves forward...we are encouraging other small businesses to ride on the back of the project and swap 'a little know-how' for exposure. We are looking for a good blog implementation. Digital Stationery has donated an Email Letterhead. We welcome anybody else to donate time or resources to the project pool to get things kick-started. Any contributions of this nature will be well documented and we are keen to promote contributors as much as possible.

The idea behind your site is superb so I would definitely consider myself a believer in what you are doing.

Thanks to EPH Telephone Answering giving us a little note on what to do with the logo to improve the navigation. They said make the logo go back to the homepage. Thank You so much.

We have had news today that our introduction to SEO is coming. This will please many as we have searched long and hard for this over the part 28 days. It is from a British source, we had to get it done by invitation, but it should clear up a few things for people.

The marketing people are starting to come forward now. Bronwyn Durand gave a contribution via Twitter saying that "Your home pg needs to say what your aim is". Thanks Bronwyn.

As a measure of good will, this is a quick entry to thank 'ghostreck' at A1 Business Forum for their first positive and constructive comment "wow amazing site thanks!!!!". The forum has given the project a good grounding in the strongest sence of the word.

Thank You to the charity we are supporting. They show us all how to do a proper back link. This is a testament to their webteam and thank you to their Chief Executive for their efforts.

For information visit The Environment Council and see how small business should support its community.

Our links policy says everybody deserves a mention. All positive contributions should be noted and this blog is here to recognise any valued contributions.

Ray Stewart, thank you for your notes on adding a back button from the article page(s). And thanks for your kind words about the content being excellent quality. For any other readers, this is the kind of direction that we need to push the project forward. We will work on the navigation for you and strive to acquire support from the right type of contributors to provide inspiration to all.

If you would like to contribute visit UK Business Labs website review section.

Innovation is not the norm, if were it would not be so important to nurture it. This project is primarily for the small business community. It is a voice. For this reason, the project aims to allow owner-managers, start-ups and specialist practitioners to engage with the project. Links to back to contributors will be given where contributions are known and valued. If you are contributing in someway and we don't know about, let us know via Twitter. The blog started on this date given, but various contributions were made before the blog started so please read those all important baby steps. If we’ve missed something let us know.

Thanks to Daren at Los Design for useful insights on how the usability of the homepage should work. His company maintains websites and he has been instrumental and forth coming with ideas from day 1.