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Do what you do best and delegate the rest
When you start your own business and it’s just you (or a partner perhaps) you do everything. You do the sales, the accounts, the admin, the mail, the work itself…… the list goes on. When you find that you’re in a position to grow and take on specialists you must take those chances as they’ll [...]
Have a Break, Have a Creative Moment…or two..
I’ve just returned from a skiing holiday in France (client has a chalet there conveniently). It was a wonderful trip, one I look forward to every year as my Dad and I take his oldschool Porsche 911, stick the skis and board on the roof-rack and drive out to the Alps. It’s a great opportunity [...]
Stop Worrying and Start Living
I was talking to some of my team yesterday and discussing how, in business, you simply have to face up to tough decisions and things you wouldn’t necessarily want to do given the choice. Last week I wrote about eating the frog which has struck a few chords it seems from comments and emails I’ve [...]
Are you an Ostrich or do you eat Frogs!
I was reminded last night of how so many people stick their heads in the sand when things aren’t quite going to plan. Over the years I’ve seen a lot of this and sometimes from close friends and business associates. Here’s what happens: You need someone to make an important decision on something and you [...]
Thank You!
As I write this, at 8am on the morning of my birthday, I’ve already received numerous texts from people, tweets, linkedIn messages and facebook wall comments wishing me many happy returns. I’m actually quite overwhelmed by it. Thank you so much everyone. Many of the people on the social networks didn’t even know me a [...]
7 Super Useful Resources for Busy Business Owners
We’re all busy right? In the fast-paced life we lead, it’s great when a tool comes along that helps us run our business more efficiently – the trouble is there are a lot of them out there which have little or no benefit to users and in fact end up wasting us a lot of [...]
7 Things That Changed My Life This Year
So it’s that time of year again folks – The snow has rolled in and rolled out again and a new year is round the corner. I can’t believe it was a year ago I wrote my round up post for 2009! For those of you who missed it, I write a summary post each [...]
Calling All Exeter Based Recruitment Agents
I’ve got an exciting new project to tell you about today. We’ve just launched a new project that’s been under wraps for the last 6-12 months – YourJobsBoard.co.uk Over the last ten years we’ve worked closely with many recruitment companies in the South West and especially in Exeter where we are based. We’ve built lots [...]
Who are your influencers?
In my last blog post I talked about the influence project. This week I want to focus on finding your influencers. How do you spread the message about your business? Do you try and do it yourself? Do you employ sales people to go out and do it on your behalf? These are valid tactics [...]
How Influential Are You?
I’m writing today about a project that the Fast Company is running called the Influence project. The concept of the project is to find the most influential people online. They measure this by giving each person taking part a unique link and asking them to promote it as much as possible. A click on that [...]