It’s My Business Info

We’ve just finished a three day event in which we teamed up with NYBEP to work with young people at eight local schools in order to help them try to grow their very own a sweet pea in a tube of gel!

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An approach to problem-solving.

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I have all sorts of things going on at the moment! I’m currently developing two business ideas which I hope will lead to the start of a new enterprise.

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As an advisor for Business Link I meet a lot of entrepreneurs in the very early stages of starting their own business, especially ‘high-growth’ start ups. We’re talking businesses which hope to make £1 million within the first three years of starting up – quite an exciting and daunting prospect!

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A meeting, often of a whole department, project or sales team, which takes place off-site and away from the participants’ regular office surroundings, usually for a whole day or sometimes a weekend. The focus is often on team building.

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I recently met an Olympic mountain bike and road bike trainer – with medals under his belt – who got in contact with me and said he liked the product, wanted to use it when training, and was there anything he could do for me (he has a lot of contacts and writes for cycling magazines).

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We’ve spent this week working hard on the Newcastle bus station installation – it’s due to be revealed next Tuesday, so the last few days have meant numerous trips up to Newcastle to make sure that all is running smoothly and going to plan.

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A way of gaining faster payment of customers’ bills.

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I was recently accosted in my local Post Office after featuring in a lifestyle piece in Elegance Magazine (incidentally the worst photo you’ll ever see of me).

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I sense a lot of frustration among small businesses about government grants drying up. But never give up.

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