EfB is delighted to bring you some great Christmas Presents to celebrate the welcome end of a terrible year for many small businesses. For you we have…. A whole month of FREE networking using our fabby online platform – no cold and dark mornings for you in December. All you will need is a PC, [...]
This week I have been asked for feedback on two businesses. I didn’t really have much to say apart from the fact they had both “Screwed me and others over unpaid bills” Oh dear!
I held my head in despair this week at the fourth time in two weeks that some great events (not all by EfB) have been blighted by No-Shows. Now No-Shows is not a problem as we all have busy diaries and obviously fee paying work or meetings etc take precedence….but…..how much time does it take [...]
Is that what you say? Perhaps it is the total lack of follow through. I went to a very good event a couple of weeks ago when I met about 30 businesses – some old friends, some new contacts and some nodding acquaintances. I was a trifle tardy but I did send a wee note [...]
Business Networking – we are all told that we should do it – most of us try it and there are some who are great at it but I put it to you that the face of business networking has changed irrevocably and the way we approach networking therefore has to change. Why can I [...]
I did something quite unusual last week and took some time out to work on the business instead of in it and went to an excellent afternoon – Conference Scotland at The ECE in Edinburgh. An extremely worthwhile event about the industry in Scotland and in general. However, the key message that kept getting hammered [...]
A favourite subject of mine and I know many of my fellow small business owners – getting paid! I am now in total despair at the futility of the ‘system’ for getting paid. In reality the ‘system’ would appear to only benefit solicitors – (Note to self – re-train as a solicitor). I had occasion [...]
A few weeks ago someone commented on this blog about shopping or trading locally and I said I would respond when I had thought about it a little bit more. This is a very difficult and potentially inflammatory subject but also one that many people jump on the bandwagon of being seen supporting local businesses. Sometimes [...]
Don’t know about anyone else and I am sure that someone will tell me how to switch it off but when I blog I like to invite genuine readers to leave comments which they sometime do – that’s lovely and so much appreciated but to do that in WordPress I have to leave the allow [...]
Sometimes I forget that good Customer Service is out there but this week my faith in good Scottish service was restored. The saga started on holiday when my less than one year old TomTom Satnav started playing up. Driving through Europe, this was a bit of a problem as we only had the most basic [...]
