Are You Reassuring Your Clients in the Crisis?
We’re all trying to readjust to these strange times. First of all, we’re simply trying to get through the emergency with our health, our family and our business intact. Besides ... Read more
Business advice (page 4)
Every post I’ve written on business advice, newest first.
A Helping Hand — Outsourcing for Your Business
We small business owners tend to have an affliction — especially if we’re one-man-bands. We often assume we have to do everything ourselves. After all, it’s my business, isn’t it? ... Read more
Marketing to Your Strengths
A little while ago, one of my regular clients asked me to have a look at his website content and tighten it up. The thing I immediately noticed was that, ... Read more
Who’s Your Business Partner?
Do you have a business partner? That might be easy to answer. Perhaps you’ve set up a company with someone else, in which case you very obviously do. Perhaps you’ve ... Read more
Sometime Starts with an N
How often do you say “I’ll do it sometime”? If you’re anything like me, it’s probably very often indeed. All those tasks that don’t have hard deadlines, so it’s OK ... Read more
Silence Isn’t Golden
“Silence is golden”, according to the classic Sixties song, echoing the old proverb “speech is silver, silence is golden”. Profound philosophy, perhaps, but definitely not a philosophy to be applied ... Read more
Without a Paddle?
Like all business owners and self-employed people, I have the annual task of doing my tax self-assessment. I’ve been receiving polite requests for this from HMRC each year since 2014, ... Read more
Don’t Try to Be Good at What You Do
Whether you’re an accountant, a business coach or a piccolo player, it makes sense that you want to be good at it. The trouble is that, unless you’re in a ... Read more
Promising and Delivering in Writing
Promising and delivering are fairly central to any business. After all, if we don’t promise, no-one knows what we have to offer, while if we don’t deliver on the promises, ... Read more
Should Priorities Always Come First?
It’s been far too long since I posted my last blog. That’s largely for the positive reason of being busy, but there is an irony that I’m overdue on my ... Read more
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