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WITH the continued recovery in the economy in the next few months think positively about your business and aim higher than just keeping your head above water. Individuals can make a difference and you need to be focussed on the most important aspect of your company if you want to come through the next year…… Continue Reading
TO many people, time out is the name of a magazine, or perhaps a break taken by players in sports such as ice hockey and basketball. It is not something business people would contemplate taking, even though a leading figure in his field believes relaxing for just a tiny percentage of your day would enhance…… Continue Reading
NIKE would say ‘just do it’. And firms are being encouraged to do just that when it comes to applying for bank lending. The concern among business owners is that they will be rejected for bank finance, so some are put off from applying. The message from experts is clear. Put more pressure on your…… Continue Reading
SOWING the seeds of recovery might be overstating the case, with the economy a long way from recovered. However, there is no doubt that the record number of start-ups in the UK during the past 12 months has created much-needed growth to lessen the impact of the public sector job losses which are about to…… Continue Reading
MANY of you will remember the bank that liked to say ‘yes’. These days, however, most are saying no, despite being part owned by the Government. As a result businesses are losing potential sales through a lack of working capital, although all that could soon change for your business. Because a growing number of businesses…… Continue Reading
Time to Read – 90 seconds Darren Fell, Managing Director and founder of Crunch.co.uk, is an entrepreneur and a persistent one at that. Indeed, when I asked him on the phone for his one single leadership lesson, above all others, he spoke with passion about persistence, based on his own personal experience of being on…… Continue Reading
To be an entrepreneur Wherever you live, now is the time to start your own business, as more and more countries wake up to realise that their economic success depends on it. And to make money, in so doing Wherever you live, now is the time to start making money, and put aside forever the…… Continue Reading
ASH Wednesday, Leslie Ash – and for the older generation, perhaps Arthur Ashe. Most of us will have become familiar with the first day of Lent, the actress with ‘that’ pout and the former tennis legend. Now we have the Volcanic version of the ‘A’ word. One that caused the skies to be closed above…… Continue Reading
LIKE climbing honeysuckle plants on a well-positioned trellis, businesses at home and abroad are still growing. Companies are making it their business to recruit staff despite fears over political uncertainty and the continued effects of the recession.… Continue Reading