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‘Good timing.’ I uttered as mince pies arrived along with our guest for the morning, Stephen. Stephen is a likeable fellow, he’d been recently made redundant from a local research firm when he called to attend our meeting. We were about to hear his plan for the business going forward: ‘I know what I’m going…
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Bob arrived, pulled up a chair and reclined with a cup of what appeared to be hot chocolate … ‘So, what do you say, Bob? I asked.’ ~ “Getting good players is easy. Getting those good players to play together is the hard part.” It’s so true don’t you think? A quote by Casey…
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Community-focused networking has lots of benefits, some are immediately evident, others need clarification and I was witness to this just recently as around twenty met over ‘brunch.’ Our guest was Michael has a lot of domestic responsibility, being the ‘office at home’ and supporting two young kids. He loved the idea of opportunity through engagement,…
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With those bright spark Leonids visiting us all, we’ve been super busy, apologies from us and Leonid for the late delivery of November! We shall all try harder! x ARIES – The November 3 full moon lights up the money and material possessions in your life. Someone, or an unusual situation, could lead to an influx…
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The conversation was going nicely until I mentioned the Vicar. My colleague Helen has a well established stained glass business when the conversation naturally turned to business referral. ‘Would you like an introduction to the Vicar, Helen?’ ‘No.’ Came her curt reply, the ecclesiastic world is not my market, I prefer to provide my services…
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“Hey, I can do better than that, why should I pay you? ‘Why should I pay you, when I know I could produce the same, just as well, if not even better than you?’” Friends, do you ever have one of ‘those’ days where everyone seems to be the expert with an opinion? … The…
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Today is about cake. I’d no sooner swallowed the first bite of my (very generously) iced doughnut when my table partner immediately went on the offensive… I don’t know why you bother with these meetings Charlie, I mean, come on, you can’t be making the big bucks? I’d known David a few months now, he…
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Plant with care, weed with purpose Long ago I was advised I should be hanging on to those business cards … ‘you never know when it may come in useful.’ Trouble is, I’ve just taken a look at around 25yrs worth of hanging on to business cards and I’ve come to the conclusion that 60%…
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In my business, I get plenty of questions. Mostly these focus on the difference. Innovation and how they can increase the level of business. It’s something I ask myself on a daily basis. How about you? If we’re not ‘on top of our game’ it’s very easy for business these days to find that they’ve…
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Aries 20th March -19th April Recent times have created many difficult situations for both you and others that need to be resolved and ideally quickly. Much as considering these in more detail seems a bore it is probably worth doing exactly that! The truth is a couple off fundamental situations and people in your…