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Do as you’ve done before and you’ll get what you deserve…
You’ve heard it thousands of times before. You know, the statement by Henry Ford: "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got." If you are absolutely happy with what you’ve got, well done. What does the statement mean? It...
I don’t get it: Why make things harder for yourself?
This weekly communication is designed to tickle your marketing glands. But, maybe you’re like some of the people who, when approached a few years ago with the invitation to take a free £5 note…
Please, let nothing interfere with your immediate action.
Please, let nothing, absolutely nothing, interfere with your immediate action. A change for the better fully justifies no delay. Don’t watch others achieve success and make money which you should make too. Get on with it and do it now. Some other time may be too late....
Controlled Immigration Can Reap Rewards
Britain to become Europe’s top economy For some time now, the papers have been banging on about immigration. Control it say several politicians. Ban it altogether suggest others. Yet, the UK’s population boom could make it the EU’s top economy and once again become...
Yes or No to TTIP?
“It’s the biggest trade thing happening right now that most people know very little about.”Have you come across TTIP yet? It stands for the Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership and it is on the lips of businesses on both sides of the Atlantic. Lee Williams...
Marketing Round up for Professionals December wk 2
Sunil Bali tells me that award winning journalist and author Will Self said, "Whenever I produce my best work it’s always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing." Is that the same for you? It’s interesting isn’t it? Research by...
The National Debt
We’ve done a lot of fighting and every time we go to war, the national debt goes through the roof. This article is about Britain’s national debt. It was prompted by an announcement that caught my eye last week that “Britain is finally preparing to pay off some of the...
Marketing Round up for Professionals December wk 1
Intro: Steve Jobs, when aged 33, looked in the mirror and thought to himself: For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the...
Do bankers and politicians lie or confabulate?
A few weeks ago, I blogged about brains. Stating the obvious, I said that we humans share a number of things with other humans: we all have a brain. Some brains are bigger or smaller than others, while some brains are better (brainier, if you like) than other brains,...
Marketing Round up for Professionals November wk 4
The Chancellor’s Autumn Statement
It may be me, of course, but I cannot understand why some firms just don’t bother to treat their clients like customers.
A risk that’s not worth taking
You already know this: accountants and lawyers, who fail to advise properly, leave themselves open to a claim for professional negligence. In the “old days”, negligence claims against accountants or lawyers were rare. Not any more - nowadays, clients and banks or...
Marketing Round up for Professionals November wk 3
Here is my regular round-up of marketing and business promotion issues plus other interesting things over the past week. It provides access to tools you can use right now to promote your firm plus software that will help those endeavours. The really good thing is that...
Charitable Incorporated Organisations: What you may have missed
It seems, from conversations I’ve had recently, that many professionals – accountants and lawyers included – are not up to speed with the changes last year that affect unincorporated organisations. Here’s a brief introduction which I hope you’ll find useful. As ever,...
Marketing Round up for Professionals November wk 1
The Boot Camp team returns: Paul Dunn to join Ric Payne again! After 15 years Paul Dunn [pictured] and Ric Payne are again collaborating to continue the work they started more than 25 years ago. The Australian pair are widely recognised as having a trans-formative...
Taking the British Public for Fools
Is it smoke and mirrors or something more sinister? On hearing the Chancellor’s report on negotiations with the powers that be in Europe on the budget top-up payment we are to make, Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls claimed the Chancellor was "trying to take the British...
There’s been a lot going on… are you keeping up to date?
This article is my regular round-up of marketing and business promotion issues plus other interesting things over the past week. It provides access to tools you can use right now to promote your firm plus software that will help those endeavours. The really good thing...
TESCO – don’t write off the giant yet
There’s been more bad news about TESCO: Over the weekend, there were several stories about TESCO selling its bank. At first glance, it seems like a bad move but admittedly TESCO has to do something to restore itself to its former glory. However, the bank’s 6 million...
On a train to nowhere: The UK and Europe – A Soured Relationship
The papers have been full of it. David Cameron is extremely angry about the demand from the EC to pay £1.7 billion by way of adjustment to reflect, in part, how well the UK economy has been performing. He says that he won’t pay the demand by 1 December. Apart from the...
How you could lose all your clients to KPMG or PwC
Should smaller firms be worried? In accountingWEB, Nick Huber & Rachael Power reported last week that KPMG has set its sights on the small-business market with the launch of a cloud accounting service for SMEs. The cloud-based service, which cost the firm £40m in...
Brains, Rats, Shams and Politicians
Last week, I blogged about developments in brain networking. I wrote that although human brains have been around for a long time and have largely ruled the roost, computers have claimed the top spot and have been doing things better than humans – except for solving...
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