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Category Archives: Business planning
Manage yourself, manage your clients
In running our own businesses it is very easy to not allow ourselves enough recreation time, or time not just working. Of course we do not just keep regular working hours. Most of us attend to our tasks at odd … Continue reading
Posted in Business planning, Customer relations, Customer service, management, productivity, Uncategorized
Tagged Clients, customer, leisure, Market, Time, weekend, working
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Fear of the unknown in business
I wrote a little about being courageous in business a while back and was reminded that FEAR can stand for False Evidence Appearing Real (thank you Martin). Now we may often be worried about doing something that is a complete … Continue reading
Posted in Business planning, marketing, networking, Social media, Uncategorized
Tagged Add new tag, fear, lizard brain, marketing, networking, Seth Godin, small business, Twitter
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Some things start-up businesses need to know about
What no one tells us if we don’t ask is about all the mistakes we might make which can cost us money. It is always useful to be armed with a few tips, so here are some things I have learned. Continue reading
Posted in Business planning, Fraud, marketing, networking, Start-up, Uncategorized
Tagged advertising, Directories, network, networking, scam, small business, Start-up
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Need a service? Get recommendations
A couple of people I know had a little success selling items on eBay, and not wishing to be wage slaves all their lives invested a considerable amount of money setting up a shopping website serving a niche market they … Continue reading
Posted in Business planning, marketing, Referral networking, Uncategorized
Tagged advice, false economy, marketing, planning, recommendation, referral, service, small business, trust, trusted
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Have we bred a dependent society?
As part of the election coverage Sky News ran an interview with an IT manager who had been out of work for fifteen months, The angle was to ask what he was looking for amongst the policies of the various … Continue reading
Posted in Business planning, management, Start-up
Tagged Add new tag, management, respect, responsibility, Unemployment, Work
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Why we need to have the right business in the right place
We must have the right business in the right place in terms of physical location if we have a shop, and the right place in terms of the market and services we provide whether directly with our clients and customers or through our website. Continue reading
Posted in Business planning, marketing
Tagged adapt, demand, dream business, market position, marketing, niche, small business
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Economists with the truth
I went to an interesting meeting last night. Two out of the three speakers were economists. It is often said that there are as many opinions of economic issues as there are economists. There were two opinions of the economy … Continue reading
Posted in Business planning, marketing, productivity
Tagged business, economy, Essex, Local government, London, opinion, recession, Thames Gateway
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Why we need to be courageous in business
We all have fears of the unknown, of measures we have not taken before. Sometimes we need to spend a little money as an investment to take our businesses forward. It is hard in this environment to spend money on the unknown, so the answer must be to spend it with experts in their field about whom we have heard good things. Continue reading
Posted in Business planning, marketing, productivity
Tagged business, courage, marketing, planning, risk
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Family cooking trouble in your business?
Last night my wife happened to switch the TV over to an edition of “Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares”, featuring a restaurant in New Jersey. I didn’t take too much notice at first, thinking it was just another cooking programme. Whilst I … Continue reading
Why we should not always take the easy way in business
If you are as lucky as I am, you will enjoy your work and running your own business. We have at least some control of our destiny even given the trials and tribulations of the economic downturn. However, I was … Continue reading
Posted in Business planning, Customer relations, management, marketing
Tagged Add new tag, client, customer, Get-rich-quick scheme, management, marketing, networking, planning, practical, responsibility
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