Sign up to Get Britain Trading

Get Britain Trading is a new campaign which aims to raise awareness of the contribution that SMEs make to the UK economy and improve the conditions under which all SMEs are forced to operate. It calls for changes to be made that would allow SMEs to prosper - and, of course, to grow, and employ and/or train people - and therefore it's obviously something that's worth supporting.

In order to make sure that the campaign has the maximum impact and achieves the desired results, the Forum of Private Business, which has launched the campaign, needs as many SMEs as possible to support the campaign and its aims by going to Get Britain Trading , and signing up to the 'Get Britain Trading' pledge.

Signing up takes seconds - actually, signing up, downloading the logo you can see on the left of this blog, and putting it into place took me, an admitted IT idiot, less than a minute.

Anyone who puts in an e-mail address - and I did - will get a free guide giving practical and expert advice on common small business issues like bank lending, late payment and cost reduction. You may feel that you know at least one of those issues so well that the last thing you need is a free guided tour around something you never want to see again in this or any other life, but the fact is that we all need the changes that the campaign could bring about, and so you owe it to yourself and everyone else to take the time to take the pledge.

Do it now here .