February 2020

Early on in my business life I had a business partner and when we were meeting up with suppliers for lunch, he would always say that as we were the customer, they should buy us lunch. Do you have this same mentality or do you look at your suppliers as part of your team? Now […]

Somebody posted something on Facebook recently and I thought that would make a great topic for a business tip, as it totally epitomises my journey in business from conceiving a business in 1987 to selling it and completing the earn out in 2019. Also the quote above is from – in my opinion – the

How can the people we spend time with impact our lives? I am sure that I, along with most if not all the rest of you, were forever told by our parents that “I don’t want you spending time with little Johnny or little Samantha as they are a bad influence on you”. Obviously nothing

Having owned and run a business for close to 33 years, I always find it difficult when people come to a networking event and they tell me it’s the first time they have been – especially if they are an older business owner. I almost want to ask then if they have been hiding under