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Tag Archives: Start-up
You can lead a consultant to market…
Confession Here is a confession: I am a consultant. I am consulted about tax issues and I am consulted about business problems. Luckily my potential clients know where to find me. Luckily? Well, maybe not. I have to market to … Continue reading
Posted in Business planning, marketing, Sales
Tagged consultant, Google Analytics, marketing, Social media, Start-up, WordPress
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Can small businesses live off referrals?
In my work I talk to many small business owners, and on a daily basis. Some in professional services are doing pretty well without making any effort to market. This is because they provide their clients with reliable, dependable support, … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Business planning, Customer relations, marketing, Start-up
Tagged marketing, referral, reputation, small business, Start-up, Word of mouth
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Innovation, sacrifice and the job trap
Employee blues I was in the tax business a long time as an employee, and in the corporate world we were also in the “business advisory” sector. As someone who has run businesses for some time, I realise how … Continue reading
Being just like everyone else
Especially when starting out in business and thinking about our tariffs there is a temptation to look at what everyone else is charging their clients and then charge the same. Recently I have been working with friends looking at forthcoming … Continue reading
Posted in Business planning, Sales
Tagged Customer service, premium, reputation, small business, Start-up
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Don’t compare
No one can have missed the incessant TV adverts for car insurance and car insurance comparison websites. They are nearly all very annoying and I think insult my intelligence (no snide comments, please). Discounting the one-in-twelve of British motorists who … Continue reading
The Frank Sinatra guide to running a small business
The local councillor who couldn’t help me might have been a local version of one of those politicians who think it is sufficient to reach high office and do not have a vision or a plan to do anything when … Continue reading
Posted in Business planning, management
Tagged planning, recession, small business, Start-up
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Wrapped-up people
Have you noticed how some people carry on in their own little world oblivious of their surroundings. They don’t see the sights and hear the sounds around them, or rather they see and don’t observe, and they hear but don’t … Continue reading
The fear of the unknown
The premise of this blog is my story of starting my own business by accident, because I became unemployed and couldn’t find another job. I had no choice. Of course prior to my involuntary arrival in what was a freelance … Continue reading
Posted in Business planning, Start-up
Tagged Employment, fear, security, small business, Start-up
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Snake oil and the knitted woollen cat
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
Posted in Business planning, Start-up
Tagged Cat, credibility, redundancy, small business, Snake oil, Start-up
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Panorama of sad tales
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
Posted in Business planning, Start-up
Tagged age discrimination, Ageism, over-50s, over-fifties, small business, Start-up, Unemployment
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