In today’s economy it can be unnerving to think about setting up a business and going it alone, but being aware of why a business can fail, can help to ensure that you have every contingency in place to reduce the chance of this happening to your company. Why do some businesses fail? Below are…
our company returned to the office yesterday disappointed having spent a large part of the week at ‘Internet World’. A series of 140 ‘unmissable’ free conference sessions promising to set the ‘new digital agenda’ proved not only to have no agenda, but worse still seemed very, almost certainly missable. We were promised so much with…
There is no denying that more and more businesses are adopting Social Media at large as part of their overall marketing mix. There is also no denying the power of Twitter, not least when you think about GaGa’s 10.5m followers, or the recent premiership footballer scandal (what?). Nevertheless, what is often scrutinized is how to…
Announcements today that the economy is in a double-dip recession will not come as good news to the British economy, as hope for a brighter future looks dim. Official figures released today show that the economy shrank by 0.2% in the first three months of this year, which followed contraction of 0.3% in the last…
We often talk about the cost effectiveness of voice conferencing over face-to-face meetings and I recently had cause to remember a personal experience. Nine years ago, I was working for a software reseller dealing with enterprise solutions. Most of the software was American and Bill the CEO of our main partner company was coming over…
So week two of cake club saw Lou take on Stew in our closest competition yet! Stew made a chocolate fudge cake beautifully presented and iced to perfection! Lou made a devils food cake will fudge frosting and purple glitter. It was the tightest decision yet with 8 votes to 7…….we then realised that Gary was MISSING!!!!…
Recently I attended a 1-day course to obtain my Short Range Certificate (SRC), which is the radio operator qualification which authorises the holder to operate a VHF Radiotelephone fitted with Digital Selective Calling (DSC) on board any British vessel which is voluntarily fitted with radio equipment. The most important thing that you learn on such…
Sometime it is not so simple to identify the authenticity of the food we buy. In fact all the main grouceries like to put strange labels reporting false and misleading information regarding the origin of the product. In reality it is very simple to check the origin of the food we buy at the supermarket,…
So we have mentioned before how important brand identity is to your business and in generating a name for yourself. So it is equally important to protect your brand. But how do you do this? Well, there are a host of ways you can protect your brand legally as well as socially. Here we give…
We’re all about getting it done and eliminating the distractions and obstacles that get in the way of you completing your job. And it seems we’re not the only ones who want to offer advice and tips for getting it done. Stever Robbins is an American serial entrepreneur and has written a book on 9…
