Running Own Business

Do you have a negative mindset? Are you affected by external circumstances? Do you let others control your attitude? These are all questions that I am sure we would answer them all with an emphatic NO! As much as we all like to think we are positive all of the time, and we don’t let […]

As Stephen Covey says, creating a win-win business is the better way. It is collaborating with another for mutual benefit. Collaboration is the process of two or more people or organizations working together to complete a task or achieve a goal. Collaboration is also of massive benefit to the end client. We have to learn

I posted an image on linked in this week about people not crossing our paths by accident, it happens for a reason. Life is built on so many thin threads, so many things that so easily could not have happened. How many of you believe that?  Think back to events in your lives. How you

How good are you at creating successful habits in your life and your business? If this is something you fall short on then, you need to read The 7 habits of highly effective people by Stephen Covey. Read it even if you create successful habits. I want to go through each of these from my own

I last wrote an article on taking responsibility in your business a week before lockdown, and so much has happened in those last 6 months so I thought it was time to do another – on taking responsibility for everything in our lives, and I love the quote for this article as it sums it

How good are we as small businesses at building relationships?  To me, strong relationships in business are everything. I  set up my business in 1987 and sold it in 2016 and a big part of the reason I was able to sell the business was down to the strength of the relationships I had with

As I sit here writing this article (5 September 2020) I am looking forward to going back to watch a live Rugby game this afternoon – the first since the middle of March 2020. There have been a few issues with season ticket holders getting access to their tickets, and this gave me the topic

Now is exactly the right time for me to write this article, one week short of 33 years since I set up in business on 4 September 1987. The journey actually started at the back end of 1981 – the year I got married to my beautiful wife Denise and we are still happily married

Over the last 33 years since I set up my Advertising Agency, I have seen a number of businesses succeed and many more fail. There are various reasons why businesses don’t succeed but I want to just focus on one of them this week – EXCUSES. As a business owner, I always took the responsibility

Running a business – if you are doing it properly – can be very overwhelming, as there is so much to do to make sure you get it right, and there seems so little time in which to do it. This is why you need professional advisors to help you and take advice from, take