by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Aug 22, 2012 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, Management, Uncategorized
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 [...]
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Aug 13, 2012 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized
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 [...]
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Aug 8, 2012 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized
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 [...]
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Aug 3, 2012 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, Government, Market Update, Monthly Musings, News, Newsletter, Noteworthy News, Small Business Blog, Uncategorized
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 [...]
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Aug 2, 2012 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, Government, Monthly Musings, News, Newsletter, Noteworthy News, Small Business Blog
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 [...]
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Jul 20, 2012 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Miscellaneous
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 [...]
