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Be Wary of the Dream Sellers

Sep 11, ’12 4:46 PM

Unlocking the handcuffs No, I’m not talking about the bondage scenes in ’50 Sheds du Lait’ my latest, erotic fantasy novel. My next book is about a billionaire dairy farmer hooked on gorgonzola and addicted to early morning visits to the ‘Beyond the Pail Room’ with a trainee yoghurt maker. I’m talking about the multi-billion…

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Most Politicians, Bankers and big companies have no idea what it is like to be a small business owner

Jul 24, ’12 10:00 AM

Recently, I was going through my Evernote archives of articles that I had ‘clipped’ over the last month and that I thought would be good feedstock for blog posts. As I was going through all of the articles, I came across Most small business owners have skipped paychecks from Yahoo! Small Business Advisor. When I…

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Stuff the Dinosaurs

May 8, ’12 10:19 AM

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…

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We may have got the T shirt but it’s still to be earned.

Mar 28, ’12 7:32 PM

We don’t know what we don’t know I always chuckle to myself when big companies that sponsor awards to start up and existing small business give, as part of the prize, mentoring or advice from a senior executive in their company. Perhaps it is no laughing matter. Firstly, it’s arrogant to assume that starting and…

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The Real Deal – Don’t Accept Anything Less

Mar 19, ’12 8:55 PM

Entrepreneur Conferences need a business health warning. November and March are always the biggest months for Enterprise and Entrepreneurship conferences. Last week, I was lucky enough to be in Liverpool for the Global Entrepreneurship Congress. Last year it was in Dubai and next year it’s in Rio de Janeiro so we were lucky to have…

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What is Mentoring?

May 30, ’11 8:24 AM

Running a business can sometimes be a very lonely affair. Decisions are always on the to-do list, having someone as a sounding board can be an invaluable asset to every small business owner. Business mentors are one group of people who can be your sounding boards. But what is a business mentor and what can…

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Financial Security? Start A Business!

Oct 6, ’08 8:53 PM

Now that it has dawned to the last of us, that the bankers misused our trust to line their own pockets and the politicians where their usual self and did not notice, even so many “spoil-sports” told us for years that things where going wrong big time, it is time to find a way out…

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Do you have concern for your business or only for yourself?

Apr 25, ’08 4:12 PM

I had an interesting conversation about my view that management control over employees is a myth. I have believed for some time now that an office is often a total waste of money and completely unnecessary. Most of the time I’m told it’s OK when you work by yourself, but not if you have employees,…

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Which intention did you have for your small business?

Apr 25, ’08 4:12 PM

I recently spoke with one of my readers about his small business, when she all of a sudden declared she felt like a business failure. I was somewhat surprised by her statement as I thought she had established a nice little business, was making enough money and had a good work/life balance. She explained that…

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Why educate women – isn’t it a waste of resources?

Apr 16, ’08 10:01 AM

When my wife went to university in London in the eighties one of her professors was of the opinion that the education was wasted on women, since they would leave university, get married and have children. While nobody says these things anymore in public, we still seem to have the same mentality. Today I travel…

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