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This month I’ve been working with graphic designers, web developers and marketers to advise me on a website I’m building for a new business venture. Nothing too complicated just a few static pages to start and a JavaScript contact form. Later I will add a database and...

As we approach 2016 I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting as I’m sure many of you have. Reflecting on the highs and the lows of the year and what could have been, thinking about what the New Year will bring and what New Year’s resolutions you will make. Maybe you’ll...

Thousands of companies are started each year and thousands are closed too, so what’s the secrets to longevity and success in the business world? This was a question posed by one of my clients I’m working with. Some would say it’s all about the product or service or...

It’s a question I get asked all the time “Should we invest in the company to grow?” And I’m sure it’s one many business owners ask themselves. My reaction to this type of question is not always the one you would typically expect as I know all too well what can happen...

Have you ever been working on a project or task and found that things just flow, ideas, communication, progress and success? It’s a place I would imagine we would all like to be especially if we are working for ourselves. In a paper I recently read Jesse Schell...

Can you feel it? Change is in the air, another year has passed and new opportunities are on the horizon. Maybe this year you’ll stick to your New Year’s resolutions (and finally go to the gym), or maybe you won’t and that is fine as well. Whatever you do, I hope...

I’d firstly like to say a massive thankyou to everyone who has read the column and sent a message or asked a question. Please feel free to keep sending those emails. This month I got a few emails from established business owners in the town. They talked to me about a...

“Your network equals your net worth.” A long while ago a very successful businessman said these word to me and at the time, being in my teens I didn’t fully understand the gravity of what it meant. Later I would read “You are the average of the five people you spend...