Category Archives: Business planning

Is your content out of your control?

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Jon Stow

In this world of social media competition, I worry that some people are not in charge of their content. As far as I am concerned, social media is (are?) not supposed to be competitive, but about having conversations and getting … Continue reading →

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Really not a football post

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Jon Stow

And I don’t mean a goal post. It is just that sometimes we can use sport to illustrate a point about business. So to a cliched quote “If you keep on doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep on getting … Continue reading →

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If only I had…

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Jon Stow

There are the chosen few who have never worked for anyone else, and then there are the rest of us who used to be employed but now run our own businesses. When we were employed we did not have total … Continue reading →

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Come on, rabbit, don’t be shy!

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Jon Stow

Quite often when I am taking my evening walk, I pass a man of about my age scurrying back from the rail station. No doubt he is a City worker. He does not meet my eye and scoots past like … Continue reading →

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Should we worry about our purchasing ethics?

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Jon Stow

  A year or so back my wife and I were lucky enough to visit St. Lucia. It is a beautiful island, and if you get the chance to go there, I do recommend it.  It is a place where … Continue reading →

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Blowing ourselves Sky High in our business lives

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Jon Stow

By hard work and dogged determination we can get there and earn our superhero’s cloak (maybe we don’t want those tight pants). Continue reading →

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Snake oil and the knitted woollen cat

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Jon Stow

I know many who invested their time and money and none who had the success that was held out as a near certainty if we worked hard. Continue reading →

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Cut off from the world

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Jon Stow

I have arrangements to make sure that all important matters are dealt with in my absence, my phones are answered and there is really nothing that should go wrong. Continue reading →

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Loneliness is such a sad affair

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Jon Stow

It is a lonely affair being in business on your own or just in a small business of a few people. There is also the question of fear of other businesses in the same line, seeing them as competitors. I … Continue reading →

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Panorama of sad tales

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Jon Stow

The programme did well to highlight the difficulties, including the direct discrimination based on age, the greater difficulty in getting a job after having been out of work for a month or so. The longer someone is jobless, the more difficult it is even to get an interview. Continue reading →

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