You may have noticed over the past few days the blog has had a different look probably each time you have looked at it.
I have been trying to find a better theme and really thought I had found it with this one from woothemes. However, it isn’t the easiest theme to adapt to and [...]

Just 24 hours (and a few minutes) to go until the VAT rate changes from 17.5% to 15%.
Make sure you have changed your website settings, ebay settings, bookkeeping settings, spreadsheet settings - even your calculator settings to reflect the new rate.
The new rate is 15%. When you are calculating the VAT amount in a [...]

At last. I have been working on this report for about a month now and it seems to have grown into a mini-book which isn’t quite what I had in mind.

Anyway, please nip over to the website and get your free copy [...]

A client, whom I shall call “Emma” here called round this morning and returned a copy of Paul Gorman’s book “How to out-sell, out market, out promote, out advertise everyone else you compete against before they even know what hit them” that I lent to her some months ago.
“I don’t see how most of the [...]

This is a question that vexes most entrepreneurs.  We are all of a certain type of person, excellent with the talk and can mostly persuade an Eskimo to buy snow.  But when it comes to writing a sales letter, advert, brochure or some other marketing material, it all becomes too complicated and tiresome.
We say, “If [...]

Regular readers will know that I am not generally one to push particular products on this blog but every so often I come across something that is actually, surprisingly good, and when that happens I feel it is my duty to let you know about it.
Marketing Tutorials by Armand Morin is a monthly product which [...]

Well, it has been a couple of weeks in the making but Chris has now finished his work on the Scout Christmas Directory advert I mentioned recently.  I am sorry about the distortion, that is down to my lack of ability to manipulate images.  The actual advert is A6 not square so the real thing [...]

I don’t mean winning at all costs!  I mean that in every business situation, and in every deal you do, you try your very best to make sure that everybody involved wins something of value.
If you are of the ilk that likes to extract maximum money from people as soon as possible and have no thought [...]

Thank you for all those who responded to my post about the best direction for the advert I have booked in a charitable booklet.
The person who first suggested the recession busting report was Rachael, although I have to confess I had already listed 24 hot tips to go in the report so it seems lots [...]

I am about to take out an advert that has become an annual event for me.  A client once asked me to support the local scout group by having an advert in their Christmas post directory to raise funds for them.  Being an old scout myself I didn’t hesitate and I have done it each [...]