Monday 26th October 09   “Rather than thinking ‘if and when’, think doing, take action, stop talking about ‘if and when and DO”.   Social...

Friday 23rd October 2009   Not enough working capital? You’ve had a Vision, a Dream and you’ve started your business.  Your family are behind you and will give you all the support they can.  You’ve completed you business-plan, you’ve gathered all the resources you can to get the business off the ground and injected an amount of start-up money into the business bank account.  Great.. You are now following your business-plan and...

  Friday 23rd October 09 “Change; there is no way to make people like it.  You can only make them feel less threatened by it”. Social...

  Thursday 22nd October 09 “An entrepreneur may fail on the way up many times.  That same person isn’t a failure until they blame somebody else for the failure.” Social...

85% bust in five years Wednesday 21st October 2009   Many small businesses fail within the first five years of being in business.  Often this is because the entrepreneur simply lacks the know-how in a particular aspect of their business.  This unfortunately is particularly true for the sole proprietors who start off with very good intentions but haven’t realised how many hats they have to wear.   I have for some years run business...