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“Saving the Village Pub” first appeared on the www.is4profit.com small business blog.
I don’t know if you saw Countryfile on the BBC last night, but there was an excellent feature on saving the village pub, that most important but often-overlooked small business.
This article originally appeared at www.is4profit.com
As reported yesterday it was Independents Day 2012, a day where local independent shops are celebrated. Personally, I skipped my regular visit to the local big supermarket chain where I often grab a bite to eat and deliberately visited at the little shops; Needing lunch I visited the Good Taste bakery & café and spent my cash on lunch and a few items for my family at home.
“Independents Day 2012” was originally written for the is4profit small business blog
When I woke up this morning the first thing my American wife said to me was “Happy Independence Day”. On this day in 1776 the United States declared independence from Great Britain and the rest, as they say, is history.
I told my wife that it was also Independents Day 2012 here in the UK with a campaign being run to support local small shops. Then I struggled to think of who the independent retailers might be in our local “high street”.
“Leadership Styles” was written by Paul Mackenzie Ross and first appeared in the business advice section of is4profit.com
Leaders may have any one of a number of so-called “leadership styles”. You can see them quite publicly, on the TV, in football managers, for example:
“Releasing the Entrepreneurial Spirit of a Let-down Generation” was written by Paul Mackenzie Ross and first appeared in the is4profit small business blog As I was out driving to the local pub last night I caught a snippet of a really interesting program about entrepreneurial spirit on BBC Radio 4. The last two and a … Read more
Remember my open letter to PC World back in September? Well they promised to call within 72 hours and I heard nothing. Working for a small business and running another small business on the side has taken up so much of my time this year. From the 4th January until the 5th December I’d taken 3 … Read more
[NOTE: John Browett is no longer the CEO of Dixons Group. As of January 2012 it was reported that he joined, of all places, Apple! But then he only lasted until October 2012. Sebastian James is the current CEO of DSG Retail, including PC World] Dear Mr Browett, Last year I was looking for a new … Read more
…Until it’s Gone So I know you’re going to take the piss here, me being a web designer/internet professional and all that, but I did buy my last laptop from PC World. I walked in to the Farnborough branch after my old laptop died a horrible hard-drive failure death in May/June 2010 and drooled over … Read more
Some time ago I decided to join Ecademy to try it out and possibly extend my network within my industry. Immediately upon subscribing a couple of people were “all over me”. Now that’s not exactly “the way I roll” but I connected with these people anyway and, in a short period of time, received numerous … Read more
I recently received an unsolicited email from someone at a website that I’ve noticed has been quite proactive in promoting itself recently. The business seems to have had a fairly good amount of media attention in the last couple of years, so their brand-building exercises are quite effective. They have good links from, and good … Read more