June 2013 Blog Posts (10)

Here's a scary prospect!

Plans are afoot to produce a new reality TV show about glamorous young things who live in Surrey. You could be a star if you can answer these questions in the affirmative...

• Are you young, ambitious, glamorous & popular?
• Do you lead an exciting and fast paced lifestyle?
• Are you a successful career person…

I'm a free Member of Marketing 'Guru' Robert Craven's Director's Centre Business Club (signed up for the 'Lite' Membership). 

It's a great way to get free access to tons of practical, growth-focused …

Join us from Saturday 22 to Sunday 30 June for nine days of workshops, lectures, discussions and performances. From creative writing to storytelling, puppetry to theatre, music to dance, there is something for everyone interested in the arts. You can see the full programme for the week at Kingston Connections to find out about daily workshops for writers, the Big Sing for singers and a whole…

Every business needs to be marketed to some extent, whether it’s word of mouth or a full-on marketing campaign.

Businesses need marketing because even if you have a fantastic product or service that would be very useful to a certain group of people, if they don’t know you exist they’re not going to come looking for you.  Posters, adverts and mailshots all have their place but they’re not necessarily seen by your target audience. Telemarketing, on the other hand, is…

Having attended numerous Investor and Property events, I’ve heard numerous rules of investments. One that particularly stuck in my mind was hearing Terry Smith, of Fundsmith, a City Fund Management Company. It got me thinking, the rules are really no different to buying overseas property and here’s how…

1. “If you don't understand it, don't do it” - the same for overseas property as for other investments

Most people understand Bricks & Mortar, which is why many people are…

The past few years have brought about substantial change for small business owners who have taken time to adopt new and unique methods of thinking that are actually transforming their entire business strategy. This includes the implementation of digital marketing strategies and tools that are helping them to build their customer engagement as well as actually rival the larger…

The Globe in Landore, Swansea, is a community pub but this particular community is sports-mad. So it's no surprise that licensee Christine Bray decided to go with the flow. This enterprising publican sponsors no fewer than nine sports teams - four football teams, three darts teams (two ladies', one men's), a pool team and a snooker team. All of the Globe's sponsored teams play in their local leagues, which of…

Do you find you've lost track of what’s in your wardrobe? Got items that you have had for years? Are you almost afraid to sort through as it seems such a big task? Worried you’ll have that horrid feeling of wasting money when you see unworn items with their labels still on? Don’t worry, you’re not alone!

How much could you save buying only items you would wear?

On average, a woman spends £453.60 a year on clothes excluding underwear. However, that is an average…

So you borrowed money from the bank to expand your business a few years ago, well done and good timing as things were certainly easier and cheaper back then.

But do you know what you are in for? What you are committed to?

The Car Analogy

Let's say you buy a car from Nissan (no reason why Nissan, just because..). You know whether it takes petrol or diesel, you…

OK, Hoffmeister may have told you to follow the bear, but I believe in following the crowd, especially when it comes to looking for business funding options.

CrowdFunding, or peer to peer lending is a rapidly growing means of raising business finance. The most common question I get asked is 'what is it' and 'how does it work', so let me enlighten you...

What Is It

Remember when you used to pay money into your bank, and your bank would then lend…