By Jim Symcox on Aug 11, 2010 in Business Growth, Strategy, business strategy | 0 Comments
How often do you step back and look at your business? I know we’re all guilty of being deeply immersed in the doing of stuff that makes money. That means it can be terribly difficult to put time aside to work on your business. You may be terribly busy, rushed off your feet, going from [...]
By Jim Symcox on Nov 3, 2009 in Business Growth, Latest Business Thinking, Manchester, Marketing, Marketing Strategies, Strategy, business strategy, coaching | 0 Comments
Manchester has an interesting funding arrangement at the moment. It’s called Creative Credits. Creative Credits aims to help Manchester SME businesses get creative input from other businesses registered on the Creative Credits gallery on their web site. The way it works is as follows: Creative Credits As A User Initially eligible users register on the [...]
By Jim Symcox on Jun 18, 2009 in Business Continuity, Business Health, business decline, business strategy | 0 Comments
Symptoms of flu, N95 masks, N95 respirators, flu masks, surgical masks, cdc, center for diseases control, influenza, flu virus, pandemic flu, H1N1, swine flu, business continuity
By Jim Symcox on Jun 17, 2009 in Business Continuity, business decline, business strategy | 5 Comments
H1N1 Swine flu symtoms, treatment, prevention and how it affects your business and your employees
By Jim Symcox on Apr 13, 2009 in Advertising, Book Review, Business Growth, Ca$hvertising, Ogilvy On Advertising, business strategy | 0 Comments
Cashvertising, or to give it the correct printed title; Ca$hvertising, is a very easy and fast introduction into the secret ways to make your adverts coin in the cash. This book is a must read for anyone who advertises right now, or wants to advertise, on or off the Internet. In it Whitman shows exactly [...]
By Jim Symcox on Mar 17, 2009 in Business Growth, Twitter, blog marketing, blog strategy, blogging, business decline, business strategy | 0 Comments
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 [...]
By Jim Symcox on Mar 6, 2009 in Business Growth, Project Management, business strategy, presentations | 0 Comments
Writing a proposal effectively depends on answering 10 key questions. Those questions may even suggest that you save yourself a job and avoid responding with a proposal!
By Jim Symcox on Jan 3, 2009 in Branding, Internet Marketing, Marketing, Ogilvy On Advertising, Twitter, Twitter Tools, blog strategy, business strategy | 0 Comments
Armando Alves show an example of brand hijacking by Twitter users. The users were fans of the AMC Series “Mad Men” about advertising agencies in the 1960′s. They set-up the character names on Twitter and simply extended by Twittering as though they were the cast. And of course I just had to follow the David [...]
By Jim Symcox on Dec 18, 2008 in Business Growth, Entrepreneurs, business coaching, business strategy | 0 Comments
Business growth when you’re a business owner and/or a business leader tends to be looked upon as a budget thing. For example, "We want to grow our business and make 25% more profit next year." That’s the wrong way to go about it. After all if you haven’t done some investigation how do you know [...]