Window shopping business services on-line
Comma butterfly (Photo credit: Jon Stow) I don’t know about you, but I get a lot of new enquiries for my services via email. That is all very nice, but many of the potential new clients are located a...
View ArticleRushing around achieving nothing
Make some family time We all want to make money and have a better life. What we really need is one good business. Now I know the old adage about not putting all our eggs in one basket, but it is very...
View ArticleBorn free, but life isn’t free
I get a lot of business through websites; both my own and others where I have a presence. The enquiries I receive as a consultant on somewhat technical matters fall into three categories: Genuine...
View ArticleTwitter? How do you find the time?
I was asked the above question over lunch at a meeting of tax practitioners. I was a bit surprised, but on reflection the guy asking is an employee. He is engaged to work on particular clients and...
View ArticleCall me old-fashioned?
Well, you can call me old-fashioned, but I do not spend all day and all night fiddling with my smartphone. I have a business to run. OK, a phone is invaluable for keeping up with what is going on. I...
View ArticleMaking a meal of it
And so to last Sunday’s lunch… Booked for 1:30 we had ordered within ten minutes. So far so good. From there we waited half an hour for our “starters”. Three fine. Mine not so good. An hour later our...
View ArticleAre you in a hurry?
It is easy to spot when someone else is in a hurry. We notice the window cleaner misses a bit or leaves a smear, or a cleaner misses a cobweb or so, or the vegetables in the restaurant are not cooked,...
View ArticleSchedules? Boring but important
“I don’t want to be hemmed in by my diary” I am not a business coach, and have no ambition to be one. I do know a lot of business people and one who is in complementary therapy claims she has not...
View ArticleThere is more to life than work
Doesn’t our work routine get in the way of real life sometimes? We need to have interests which take our minds off the daily routine. Even if we enjoy our work very much, which I hope we do, we need to...
View ArticleShould I be retired?
Being of “a certain age”, which means no longer young, a lot of people I meet socially and even some who have known me a while think I must be retired. Well, I suppose I could have retired, but since I...
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