When looking to employ staff, it can feel like you are entering a minefield. Where do you start to look anyway and what sort of questions do you ask a prospective candidate. Firstly you need to know absolutely why you are employing someone and what they will bring to your business. Just thinking you need […]
We’re certainly riding a very bumpy and uncertain business road – since the 2016 referendum on staying in or coming out of europe, there has been no clear cut difinitive routes forward for any of our businesses. The government seems completely unable to pull itself together in one direction to get themselves, let alone the […]
When you need to know about such things as wills and probate, or lasting power of attorney and probate assistance, it can be a bit baffling. The best way to find things quickly is to check out your local trade magazine that comes monthly. Just abouve every area has one and firms pay to be […]
When you look through the masses of small brochures that flood through the front door at home every week, it’s possible that you are so blind to the mass of information contained within. Every page is full of services, small businesses that have grown up from nothing – maybe like yours, a small outlet from […]
Once we get our hobby or past time into some sort of earning condition, we think about moving on up to starting a business. Usually this comes about by a relative or friend realising that you’re more than just besotted with the hobby, but actually damned good at what ever it is. They then tell […]
When we think of small business, we generally think of a plumber or maybe a single electrician. Those jolly useful trades where someone gets trained, works a few years in a bigger company perhaps and then branches out on their own. There are all the costs of setting up that company – getting publicity, insurance […]
Recently I joined a small local gym. I used to belong years ago before a major leg trauma halted progress. This year I decided to reacquaint my aging body with the workings of a modern circuit gym. All was going well – I proved to myself that I have more stuffing than expected. The young […]
I couldn’t help noticing that our local out of town shopping extravaganza has got more stores opened. One being a mega nationwide crafting and hobby outlet. Now, having very keep knitters, needlewomen, quilters and painters in my family, this would usually bang a gong of unparalleled enthusiasm. But as the company concerned seems to now […]
In these seriously challenging times, it seems hardly a day goes by without comment and redicule in the press about the way our brexit strategy is going. No one seems to have a hand on the negotiations – well it seems as though those who are in charge of the bus are not in the […]
When I first went out to work, back in the day, the top brass were always men – all the directors and chief operating officers. The only time a woman featured at the top of any company was if she was married to the boss or was the daughter of him. Not too many women […]