Step-Up Finance
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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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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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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Deciding factors for shopping commonly include price, quality or choice. Deciding factors for personal banking might be interest rates, additional services, convenience or, it seems from Sainsbury bank’s pre-tax operating profit increase of 40% last year, the loyalty card points. Ways to tap into potential customers: It is our business to quickly restore value-added infrastructures that provide...
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Attitude Is Everything: Operate Like A Manager An opinion from a man who’s spent his life determining the making and saving of money in business, nine years from now `the major banks will be worth considerably more money than they are now’. Said Warren Buffett. Putting that aside, businesses of all size or type have their bad days: the determining factor is whether their bottom line is...
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According to the Accountant’s I’ve spoken with, HMRC’s deadline for self-assessment gets the papers flying around quicker than a pile of leaves covering a hedgehog who’s spotted its first slug in 6 months, for those well-meaning businesses with a late-starter attitude in discovering the difference between paper shuffling and paper moving. It seems for some it’s the schedules, for others...
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Welcome Back! We’ve Been Expecting You! It starts off good and then gets better. I could be talking about life, a relationship, business or any combination of the three; each one can affect the other …..and none more so apparent than in my latest meeting with an old friend. We go back a long time but he’s showing little wear-and-tear of his middling years, which I mention because he’s a...
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