by Step-Up Finance (Business) | May 2, 2013 | Blog, Business, Business Notes, Economy, Finance, Monthly Musings, Newsletter, Small Business Blog
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, [...]
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | May 2, 2013 | Blog, Business, Business Finance Junction, Monthly Musings, News, Newsletter
A MORI poll has shown that around 6 million people in Britain are currently planning, or researching, how to build a home for themselves and, with a disparity between those who want to build and those who are enabled National Self Build Week (NSBW) is taking place 4-12 May, in an attempt to bridge the [...]
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Apr 30, 2013 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, Miscellaneous
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 [...]
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Apr 26, 2013 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Market Update, Miscellaneous
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 [...]
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Apr 23, 2013 | Blog, Charity, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized
Standing small things side by side, a singular value often has the ability to magnify itself; the singular value is increased as a collective. Individually three words can each hold their own important relevancy; stand those words next to one another, as World Book Night does (the smallest word propped-up by the two longest at [...]
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Apr 10, 2013 | Blog, Business, Green
The whole universe depends on everything fitting together just right. If one piece busts, even the smallest piece... the whole universe will get busted Filmed, where and with an aptitude for meeting challenges is a must, the crew had a movie that wasn’t easy to make; nor was it the type to attract big money. [...]
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Apr 3, 2013 | Blog, Business, Business Notes, Economy, Finance, Monthly Musings, Newsletter, Small Business Blog
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 [...]
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Apr 2, 2013 | Blog, Business, Business Finance Junction, Economy, Finance, Monthly Musings, News, Newsletter, Noteworthy News
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 [...]
