My friend Tony Robinson OBE – joint Head Enterprise Rocker and Small Business Blog contributor – is also a well-respected business author. He has written seven books in total but his magnum opus has to be “Stripping For Freedom“. Along with his co-author Leonora Soculitherz he wrote one of the funniest business books in history,…
We always like to highlight success stories here at the Small Business Blog. I was impressed to hear about a small UK business book publishing company named Panoma Press that has been very successful in the international market. Panoma have just licensed another ten of their titles for distribution in Malaysa and Singapore during the…
Do keep up. I’m sorry it has been a couple of weeks since my last effervescent erudition. I thought it best to go into hiding for a little while – two reasons. Firstly, ever since I was papped topless whilst reading ’50 shades of” I’ve been stalked by a sweat of billionaire businessmen (not sure…
All that glitters…. Keep Up won’t you? I learned a new Brit word yesterday. Yes, regrettably I’m still in the sad land of fleeces and dodgy haircuts. The word I learned was ‘institutionalised’. I was at the home of my hopeless and hapless agent, the inept, fashion disaster, Tony Robinson OBE. I was helping his…
Keep up won’t you – most websites that promote ‘how to successfully start and run your own business’ are sponsored by big companies and government bodies and written by people that are in jobs and have never started their own business. The advice is so yesterday. It is stuff from antiquity that belongs in a…
Question Time Just before I flew home to Canada I was asked by my inept agent, Tony Robinson OBE, to chair a ‘Question Time’ type debate at a large micro business conference in his home town of Scarborough. Micro businesses (0-9 employees) are, apparently, quite important to the UK. There are 4.5 million of them…
Today, I want to offer some advice to all my start up and micro-business owner fans on what advice not to take from silver tongued experts and gurus. I’m on the train. I’ve been at my publishers in London checking on new cover designs for the third edition of ‘Stripping for Freedom’ and before that…
Word of Mouth – in my opinion not only the best way to gain new customers, but also the most cost-effective way, is always something to talk about, because happy customers are your word of mouth referral agents, totally free of charge. John Jantsch in his new book “The Referral Engine – Teaching your business…
Last week I reviewed Adrian Swinscoe’s fantastic book – RARE Business. And now I have a signed copy to give away to a lucky reader of my blog. In keeping with Adrian’s strong business values, to win the book you need to leave a comment here, on my blog, telling us why customer care is…
We live in the age of “Celebpreneurs” and I’m often not overly excited about the way in which these entrepreneurs portray business, especially SMEs. But the good people at Wiley sent me this review copy of “The Samrta Way To Do Business” and after having read it I have had to revise my opinion somewhat.…
