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...
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Oct 24, 2011 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, Management, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized
A darkness falls over the office, crackling lightening is accompanied by a rumble of mind-movie thunder whenever a belief has to be shattered. A reflex is a certainty from the person who is going to experience the adult version of the child who asks “is...
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Aug 3, 2011 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, Market Update, Miscellaneous, Monthly Musings, News, Newsletter, Noteworthy News, Small Business Blog, Uncategorized
Practice 1-2-3 : The Business Standard All too often areas, even within the smallest of businesses, having potential for performance and growth are overlooked because standard good practice isn’t backed up with standard practice procedures. It doesn’t matter if it’s...
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | May 31, 2011 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, Management, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized
Business is ‘terrible’, we learnt today, from someone we’d worked with. ‘It’s hardly better than last year’. ‘Great!’ Was our response, as we waited for this individual’s usual stoic resolve and general philosophy to give us their punch line. ‘And how was last...
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Feb 24, 2011 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Miscellaneous, Outside the Box, Uncategorized
How Not To Get Fried in Business? Think National Institution and, amongst many things, you’ll likely think Fish and Chips; the salty seaside traditional partnership superlative, which, because everything moves on and changes, needs outside the box thinking such as...