As I opened the door the six people in the open plan office looked around. “Hi there, I’ve come to see Steve”, I said brightly. As a man they returned their gaze to their computer screens. They all had the hunched and dejected look of a team that resides at the bottom of the bottom [...]

Blogs have been around for quite a while now and we do still seem to have a variety of newspapers and magazines available. That said there’s no doubt that the print media dominance has been severely eroded. I’ve talked before about how the number of readers of print media has been dropping for several years [...]

I went to a menswear shop in Manchester today. It’s not in a particularly great location, and yet it’s close to the city centre. Plus it has free parking in the streets nearby. I’d popped in once before because I was intrigued by its location and I suspected that it probably wasn’t doing too well. [...]

There are a number of risks that are associated with running a business. One you don’t often think about is what would you do if you couldn’t actually get into your premises for 2 weeks, 3 weeks or longer? Trapped Outside Your Business What if there was a fire in the next office, one that [...]

Mary Portas’s BBC programs on reviving retailers fortunes has been consistently interesting. Sometimes because of the way her clients try and dig their heels in to avoid change. And sometimes because you can’t believe that people are just ignoring what she says when they’d have to pay a fortune to get such advice from anywhere [...]

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Time is a precious resource and it’s not something you’d ever want to fritter away. If you’re not involved with Twitter or blogging it’s probably because you’re scared that the time you invest in getting interesting content together is actually a waste of time. Twitter’s A Time Waster So many people have denounced Twitter as [...]

It seems as though a lot of people are turning to sales and marketing to get money into their company. Given the current economic climate that’s no surprise. The issue is that it can be difficult for a company struggling with bad payers and their own debts to invest in marketing. And yet, research shows [...]

Henry Ford said, “You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars.” And that’s what we all have when we start our new job, or business. And yet what starts with piles of enthusiasm can grind down into a living hell. Too often I’ve [...]

You’ll be pleased to know that you’re not alone in thinking that the Internet has nothing to do with your business. After all you don’t get any sales from your web site. You even write a blog and nothing happens there. So you may be asking why you should be investing anything into the Internet. [...]

Your company has been swimming along minding its own business when whammo! Something happens to throw it off course and slip from making a slight profit to haemorrhaging money at a rate that looks as though it can never end. If it’s a physical challenge like an earthquake, flood or fire you should already have [...]