Gordon Brown, Alistair Darling and Peter Mandelson are flying to a world economic summit. Peter looks at Alistair and chuckles: ‘You know, I could throw a £50 note out of the window right now and make one person very happy.’...

On 14th June 2002 I set up a Clickbank account to sell my book on advanced sales techniques – “How to Sell in Todays Tough Markets”. The sales website is http://close-that-sale.com Yesterday I came across, by accident, my own text,...

  P”ing Off the Tax Man The UK Tax Office decided to audit Grandpa, and summoned him to the London office.  The auditor was not surprised when Grandpa showed up with his attorney. The auditor said, ‘Well, sir, you have...

BCC Business Convention :  A series of business surgeries will be running alongside the main Convention. Designed to make the Convention more accessible to small businesses they are free-to-attend and will offer practical advice for your business. The surgeries, 50...

Mervyn Davies, Minister for Trade and Investment, will be interviewed by the BBC journalist, Martha Kearney, on how the government is handling the recession at the British Chambers of Commerce’s Annual Business Convention. At the Convention, which will be held...

A member survey at the FSB (Federation of Small Businesses) has shown that recent VAT cuts, bank lending guarantees and pledges on payment practices have had little to no effect on trading. The Government-backed Prompt Payment Code, launched last year,...

It is amazing that there are still some commentators who are hedging their bets regarding the recession. Here we are, just one week away from Christmas with, hopefully a jolly good time for us all. The outlook for 2009 seems...

Is Darling living up to his name? In his emergency “mini budget”, The Chancellor, Alistair Darling gave out a few scraps to help small businesses. Firstly, the planned increase in the small companies rate of corporation tax has been deferred,...

Have You Got A Website For Your Business? Let Me Phrase That Question A Little More Precisely... Have you got a website THAT GETS RESULTS for your business? Let’s show you what I mean...If you do a Google search for...

“Where would we be without those few individuals who refuse to accept defeat and who continue to soldier onwards when common sense tells the rest of mankind that there’s no use trying?” Whilst this ultra tough market place will push...

It gets worse! Just when you thought that the Envirowise advice on tea making was way too much excitement, here’s another... The Waste and Resources Action Programme – WRAP for short – is suggesting that workers should not buy a...

Listen up – here’s an important business initiative from the Quango Envirowise....use teapots instead of teabags and don’t overfill the kettle! Yep, they get £10 million a year to advise businesses on going green and they come up with this...

One of my favorite films is the Shawshank Redemption with Morgan Freeman. It’s about a man condemned to life in jail for the murder of his wife and lover. Tim Robbins plays the man who feels like the walls are...

One of the biggest problems for small businesss owners  has always been the inability to get the more talented individuals to work for them. Why? Because the large corporations generally offer better pay, better conditions, training, a wide range of...