I don’t know about you but I can’t stand these dark cold nights, and it’s definitely time to break out the logs & get the wood burner going again… As you may know? I’m a great advocate of shopping local. Even to the point of declaring that I’m never going to buy anything off Amazon

I don’t know about you but marketing in small organisations is not like it used to be. When we first started out (15 years ago) there was no such thing as social media. And we could simply stick an advert in our local paper and hey presto, people would call & buy our stuff… For the last

It was one of the more welcoming features of the Budget, a Digital Services Tax to make the likes of Amazon, Google & Facebook pay their fair share. The Treasury says it will apply to search engines, online marketplaces and social media firms who have global revenues of more than £500 million. But is it

There’s nothing wrong with being different. The fact is. If you do what others do (following the crowd) you’ll simply end up getting the same thing they do. Being different is a very valuable thing. You won’t gain anything by being boring, plain & vanilla or by trying to please everyone. Trying to please everyone

We’ve got a REAL BIG PROBLEM in our industry & we really need you to share this article to stop organisations like yours from being victims… We’ve recently wrote a couple of articles (read them here & here) about small organisations being victims of rogue traders through terms & conditions not being clearly explained. And

It’s just happened again. A small organisation being ripped off by a rogue trader through terms & conditions not clearly explained. And in this case actually hidden. We’ve been helping a small business get to the bottom of their telephone contract. And it’s turned up a right bag of worms. The poor customer has had

Warren Buffet famously said “If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.” Well Amazon have just taken things to another level. They plan to make money from your dreams… And have launched their own private label mattress products (as detailed by TJI Research) & prices

Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto was an Italian engineer, sociologist, economist, political scientist, and philosopher born in 1848. He introduced the concept of Pareto efficiency and helped develop the field of microeconomics. The Pareto principle was named after him. And was built on observations such as 80% of the land in Italy was owned by about 20% of the population. The Pareto principle (80/20 rule) implies (roughly) 80% of the

I don’t really class myself as an entrepreneur. I suppose others might, even though I can only just spell it… Providing people with cost & service certainty (office technology solutions) is what I love doing. And seeing them achieve a peace of mind state is utopia. I love building new things. I love building a

To restructure at the right time is such an important factor to keep your organisation growing, and in some instances from failing… In many industries things change over time. And 3 major drivers of this change are technology innovations, new routes to market and buying habits. The key is being able to spot each of