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Getting to grips with technology can be a problem, being concerned about security; Website attacks, emails going missing, computer viruses - All are understandable. But businesses practicing without email….. How? What is the reasoning behind a resistant micro or smaller business to an email account? My flabber has been gasted by perfectly serious businesses telling me they don’t have...
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The Business Of Consulting I’d spent the best part of a much needed weekend break… shopping. The sun (hidden since last September) managed to burn into the face of my android assistant, before moving onto my head until I had the headache of a man who’d run a marathon dressed as a Styrofoam marshmallow. Frustration, searching for a PC router on a Sunday, when it really could have waited...
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No surprise that less than one in five respondents believes ‘a business or governmental leader will actually tell the truth when confronted with a difficult issue’, as shown in the 2013 Edelman Trust Barometer. `Academics, technical experts and a person like yourself ‘ were revealed, in the global survey, to be nearly twice as trusted as a Chief Executive or Government official. With the...
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Knowing enough to know, that we don’t sufficiently know enough to know how the Funding for Lending is working, is sufficient to know we know enough to feel reassured, after listening and watching an increased floundering from a variant of lender managers, working with the scheme, as a gurgled excuse (not reasoned response) is the suggestive qualifying factor - There’s a new order within their...
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App for Business – One Direction Aimed towards those who are too under pressure or routinely protective (I don’t need anyone telling me how my business is doing) to not monitor their own pressure points, I’d guess that if there was an App for smaller businesses to reassure themselves of motivation levels…. it might not be as much fun as Temple Run… but it has potential to be as...
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The automatic Escalator Tax (alcohol and cigarettes) which was to be applied this month (by at least 2% over inflation until 2014) was removed for beer in the recent budget. CAMRA had been vocal in pointing out that beer duty has risen 42% since 2008, the beer industry had cited the tax as reason for pubs going out of business and The Chancellor noted 10,000 pubs have closed in the last decade....
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Probably, down at No.11 after some gradual stretching exercises and a crack of the knuckles, Mr O’s spring in his step bounce downstairs turned to frantic running around; throwing things out of the cupboard under the stairs, and shouting “who’s moved the red bag again?” ……Because, as we’ve heard from pre-budget snippets, it’s a visit to Grimsville again – and...
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Game Changer! You Hold The Key. I’d never thought it would take some thirty years before I could open an ordinary door with such a sense of achievement. And when I did, the infill storage area didn’t disappoint. Although its contents had long since changed, I was amused by the minute space which I’d always recalled as a portal. Returning to an experience as an adult is a completely different...
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