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My business blog

A monthly round up of what has worked, what hasn't and what is planned for the future. All based round what you can use, and things you should know to create your perfect business.

As always, click here for details

Interviews with a marketing expert - free!

Thanks to a bit of lateral thinking and some cheek, I've managed to interview a veteran expert in sales and marketing. His normal charge works out at £50 a minute - and well worth it! He generated £258,895.00 in extra revenue for one client in the first eight weeks, with a monthly revenue rising to half a million pounds. It is likely that you will be able to take some absolute gems away from these recordings - click here for details!

Ideas and creativity

Click here to view twelve articles on ideas and creativity written by leading experts in the field.

My thanks to the East of England Development Agency for kind permission to reproduce them.

Digital books - .pdf files

Three reproductions of classical books.

Although the writing style is very ‘old world’, and can take a bit of effort to read, there are some pretty stunning ideas in them.

Feel free to read online, download and/or send copies to friends.

Click here for link.

Other PDF files and reports

A friend asked for ideas on how to find her perfect business, so here are my thoughts - four ideas taken from my book, plus six others. Finding your perfect business.

Many businesses fail because the necessary logistics are not set up. Here are details of the three types of details and information you really need to get a handle on if you want to succeed, and the systems that have worked for me

Click here to find out how to sort out your business life.

Snippets - MP3 recordings

A series of short recordings, based on my experiences in working for different companies and organisations. Click here for link.

'Business Survival & Prosperity Guaranteed'

Great though a book is for portability and convenience, Sod’s Law dictates that the very moment it is printed, a whole bundle of thoughts and ideas will spring to mind. Plus the fact that eagle-eyed readers may well pick up every typo, ‘minging’ bit of grammar and blatant cock-up. So I’ve added a special page for the book 'Business Survival & Prosperity Guaranteed'. with responses to any queries, mistakes and alterations as necessary. I've also added the solution for the puzzle at the end of the book, click here for all the details and revisions, If you email me about the book, I’ll post any responses to queries, requests for clarification and death threats there.

As I said, I really do want this book to be the complete guide to enable you to create your own prosperous and thriving business. If anything is not clear, if you want further advice – or even a quick appraisal on a possible venture – let me know, and I’ll use the web page above as an extension of the book. To be honest, because of the excellent system I’m using for the web site (see ‘Links’ page), it really is quite easy to provide this extra service, and I’ll be a lot happier knowing that as many loose ends as possible can be tied up.

Click on the link for solutions to the 'Lateral Thinking Page'

Basic accounts spreadsheet

If you want a basic and simple spreadsheet to get started with, email me and I'll send you a copy of something I put together for a client. It is the simplest possible system I could think of, and is based on a breakdown of 'Income' and 'Expenditure.'

Fill in the details on two different pages, and your totals for the period will be carried forward to the last page for you. There are some automatic and rather cunning bits built in which will spot some of the mistakes that could be made.

It won't work if you are V.A.T. registered, but if there is enough interest I'll put one together that will handle that as well - let me know if this would be of help to you. You will probably have to move on to something more complicated later on, but it may do you for now. As it is a total 'freebie', I cannot accept liability for any consequences from its use - especially if you type any sums in the wrong places!