by admin | Aug 14, 2020 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Government
https://www.stepupfinance.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Weighing-Up-Appetite.mp3 Download the MP3 here It is that time of year again. Results day. Not the every student and parents’ day of dread type, instead the interim or half-yearly Banking results – the time when profit figures are released – the time when I imagine red highlighters are being swiped across bold black headings marked [...]
by admin | Feb 15, 2018 | Blog, Business, Business Notes, Economy, Finance, In Business, Insight, Small Business Blog, Uncategorized
Today, I am proud to have achieved reaching the 25th year of my working independently in the world of finance solutions. My watershed of changing gear and flying solo felt right the year the UK Eurovision entry gave out other advice - ‘Better the Devil You Know’ - but I chose to move in another [...]
by admin | Aug 8, 2016 | Back to Basics, Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, How It Works, Uncategorized
Business owners are all too often facing repercussions from conditions beyond their control, yet the ritual of planning has to go on - Looking at the future with a bias of the present. Plan – Strategy – Review is the mantra I encourage as discipline to balance ambition, motivation and reality check. It’s the core [...]
by admin | Jul 27, 2015 | Blog, Business, Business Notes, Economy, Finance, In Business, Insight, Monthly Musings, Small Business Blog
From The Desk Of: Michael #stepupfinance PAYBACK TIME Who’s Paying? Mostly everyone; lenders, banks, businesses and individuals affect each other, from the effect of Interest Rate lows, highs and fluctuations. Add on any advantages and disadvantages of differing mortgages, loans, pensions, property values, investments and bonuses, savings also take on a new architecture. What’s Being [...]
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 [...]
