by admin | Jul 27, 2018 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Small Business Blog
‘I don’t envy your job on a day like today’ I’d said to the safety-jacketed, steel-booted and hard-hatted workman turning the Stop/Go notice on the hottest day of the year. ‘I don’t envy yours’ he nodded to me sitting in the car. How right he was. Planning had started...
by admin | Dec 21, 2017 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Government
According to the Bank of Englands’ quarterly summary report, on business conditions across the UK between late August and late November, housing market activity had moderated in Q4; remaining weaker in the secondary market, and in London for the most expensive...
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...
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Feb 29, 2012 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Management, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized
Talking with someone about the difference between a plan and planning in business highlighted the importance of defining objectives. It had become obvious that `he who shouted loudest’ was distracting, blocking out necessities to leading their business...
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Sep 29, 2011 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Miscellaneous, Outside the Box, Uncategorized
It’s a constant that change happens therefore, with trends and economic conditions constantly moving the horizon, market opportunity spotting is an essential, not additional, business skill because growth and survival is dependent on finding the most favourable...