Step-Up Finance
I sometimes don’t know which hard surface to bang my head against first. There’s the one waiting next to those who, being good at what they do in business adopt an attitude of possessing business acumen in specialist areas – to which they have no experience - or, the hard surface next to those businesses who follow these expansion of service offerings like a blinkered donkey following a...
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The storage boxes held the detritus of family shifts and changes, much had gone to charity shops but there were several pieces that had been hanging about the corners of the garage, which ‘collectors’ might appreciate. “Head off to a car boot”, was the suggestion put forward to me: a business area that I know nothing about – and how quickly I was made aware of being a novice. I...
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This was a character who understood that every aspect of business processes has its complications; he dealt in facts…. not opinions. ‘Earlier this year we had some trouble with seahorses’ – so went a line in a weekend read about the trials and tribulations of a chef who was having difficulty getting kosher certification ‘it’s a tough business – tougher than the pharmaceuticals business’....
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Design on Protecting Your Business: With their monosyllabic response of computer says ‘no’ extended to now include the likes of ‘outside criteria’ or ‘it doesn’t sit comfortably with us’, smaller enterprise’s expectations of the high street banks continue to consistently fall short because those lender type expectations are nigh on impossible to meet. Apparently there were some £1.5bn of...
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Last August had the London riots, this year August has the London Olympics. Last year had Project Merlin and Greece in the headlines, this year it’s all about mortgage price wars, because of the FLS (Funding for Lending Scheme) overstepping the NLGS (National Loan Guarantee Scheme) to which the Bank of England will be monitoring. Interest rates have been held and B.of E. is to make no changes...
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If you are a Trooper under fire, you could be forgiven when you swear like a Trooper under fire, BUT swearing like a Trooper under fire, via a member of staff, to someone on the end of the phone who’s come to your business with beneficial information (although you don’t know that because you’re too busy growling in the background)…..Come on!…..REALLY? This wasn’t a first in...
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Shoot…! ….Before You’re Shot! Killing Overload…. Clearly for us in the Northern hemisphere, after tilting its maximum towards the sun in June, the longest day in terms of daylight hours has reached its peak for another year. Doubtless is the longest day for business owner-managers, with any changes occurring in different areas at the same time, over yet… and the...
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Let’s start with what we Brits seem to like talking about instead of leaving it until the end as an …and finally…. the weather - June was the wettest on record, ‘Nuff said! Although water restrictions have been lifted, some farmers, such as apple growers in Sussex might be counting the cost of their crops being dampened whilst some strawberry growers claim its all come to good,...
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