Independents Day 2012

“Independents Day 2012” was originally written for the is4profit small business blog

Independents Day 2012When 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”.

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Releasing the Entrepreneurial Spirit of a Let-down Generation

“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