by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Mar 29, 2011 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, Management, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized
Sometime in the 80’s, John left school and started general jobbing for a local builder. By the early part of the 21st Century he’d worked through the slowdown of the 90’s and had his own small construction business, employed several people and did some property...
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Mar 23, 2011 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, Management, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized
Cue the music: “I’m on a low budget , I’m on a low budget , I’m not cheap, you understand I’m just a cut price person in a low budget land”. With an uncertain growth outlook and rising unemployment, the least our Chancellor...
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Mar 18, 2011 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, Management, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized
Our A – Z isn’t a lending lexicography but an example of our experience of the building block considerations within the mechanics of small business financial positioning. We’ve only considered one element for each letter and we’d really like to know if you’d...
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Mar 15, 2011 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, Management, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized
An excuse we hear from ourselves, and other quarters, seems to be on the increase; everyone is ‘too busy’. It’s not a new idea being busy in business, it`s par for the course, a part of the territory as models adapt and develop, strategies are placed to structure...
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Mar 7, 2011 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, Management, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized
One of us once worked in a situation in which we were told that the dress code for women didn’t include trousers. The `sting in the tail’ is that this wasn’t part of a business culture, it was a school, a place that has an obligation to promote equality, and,...
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Mar 1, 2011 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, Market Update, Miscellaneous, Monthly Musings, News, Newsletter, Noteworthy News, Uncategorized
Drop the Dead Donkey – Plan, Strategy, Review You’re born, you live and then you die. Allowing for the bits in between blowing it all apart, a simple narrative many of us can understand. It’s the bits in between that can get as complicated as a chemical equation....
