blogs for business

Join the 21 Day Blog Challenge

A 21 Day Blog Challenge I was listening to a webinar last week and one of the presenters, who runs a recruitment company, talked about the positive influence blogging has had on her business.  So good in fact they are set up to post TWO blogs per day! Routinely I read articles that support the…

subway business tips

Start Small Finish Big

Start small, Finish big Fred DeLuca one of the co-founders of Subway reckons 15 key lessons explain how he created this international franchise juggernaut. Whether you start small and want to stay small or have ambitions to be like Subway, these are 15 great tips from his book ‘Start Small Finish Big’. Start small: Keep the…

What is business?

We tend to overcomplicate business.  But having worked in micro businesses and international businesses, the core idea is the same.  Business is no more than buying and selling.  Traditionally this was called trading. Business stripped bare is nothing more than buying and selling.  As the business operator you have something to sell that’s different from…

Monet's water lilies

Work Ethic

“Anyone who say he has finished a canvas is terribly arrogant” (Claude Monet) I went to the Monet exhibition yesterday and immersed myself in this artist’s life. Monet had an incredible work ethic and dedication to his craft. Monet is perhaps most famous for his waterlilies paintings, captured in his garden at different times of…