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 [...]
This is short and sweet and to the point – and maybe some of the guilty parties can tell me why. Why do some hotels, cafes, meeting places not have FREE Wi-FI access. Hotels especially are as guilty as sin. A couple of weeks ago I was enjoying a coffee in a major city venue [...]
It’s a pretty competitive world out there right now for small business. Especially with many people just starting out after having been made recently redundant or taking early retirement, the choices for customers has never been better. Now if you are smart, you will almost certainly have got some professional marketing advice to help you [...]
Everyone who runs network groups bangs on consistently about the value of building business relationships instead of the sell sell sell approach. No one more than me appreciates how true this is. Let me just share a really good example of relationships built through networking. This week I had a couple of things that I [...]
We know that e-networking is the bees knees and inevitably will become the way forward for many busy business people but we thought you might like to hear from some of our regular users. Ian Campbell of IGC Accounting – a small but perfectly formed practice based in Glasgow says “Actually I am really busy [...]
“Less than a year after launching the UK Kindle Store, Amazon.co.uk customers buy Kindle books 2 to 1 over hardcovers.” For me never a more powerful announcement as I work to grow our brand new e-networking platform. Once upon a time, not so long ago, when discussing physical books vs e-books, the comments were invariably [...]
At networking events it is the rare occasion when you don’t meet a competitor. Sadly, some people when they meet a competitor at an event immediately go into panic mode and do one or more of the following: – A) Scarper off quickly and don’t go back to that particular event B) Mumble under their [...]
