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“The Business Benefits of Marginal Gains”, written by Paul Mackenzie Ross, first appeared in the small business blog section of www.is4profit.com
My Managing Director and I were discussing the subject of business performance and commercial efficiency the other day when he mentioned the recent story of the British Olympic Cycling team boss, Dave Brailsford.
A couple of days ago I read an interesting piece over on the BBC News website about Totnes in Devon; the town is soon to be home to a new branch of the national chain Costa Coffee.
Now Costa Coffee is a brand that is well known in the UK with some 1,375 shops in this country, and some 800 stores abroad; so what’s so special about it that this proposed coffee shop in a southwest town makes the headlines over at the BBC?
“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.
“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
“Twitter: Does your Small Business Need it?” was written by Paul Mackenzie Ross and first appeared in the business advice section of is4profit.com
The social media platform twitter seems to have taken its place in the list of daily tools that many small businesses cannot do without. Every day most decision makers in SMEs will check the post for mail, their phone for texts or voicemail messages, their email and now their twitter account.
But with the “to do” list getting ever longer the first thing every small business owner needs to ask themselves is this: Twitter: does your small business really need it?
I hadn’t touched Wordle for about a year. Today I stumbled across Wordle again and decided to paste in the text from this home page in, and what did we get?