When we heard Melanie Bryan OBE use the word pjamapreneur on twitter, we knew we wanted her to guest blog about it here. She kindly agreed, and we love the concept! Melanie Bryan OBE is a Positive change specialist, tender expert, community champion & an enterprise ambassador. She’s also the brains and brawn behind Why […]

One of my pet hates is companies (often network marketing companies) who advise their staff to sell to their friends and family. To me it’s self evident that this is a bad idea, but I’ve recently been asked about it by three different people, so I decided to write a quick blog about it. 1. […]

Some professions only have two types of people: struggling artists and sell outs. Whilst you are working your butt off trying to make a living doing what you love it can be really tempting to suspect that the people who are living the dream have made a deal with the devil. In our experience this […]

“Continuing our series on words which describe how to “Do Business Now”, we asked guest blogger, (and supplier of endless lego inspiration for our facebook page) Adrian Ashton to tell us about a word which sums up his approach to business”.   Phelgmatism (phleg•mat•ism) I know – it sounds like you’re full of a stinky […]

Strategy is good. Right? As ever, the answer is….it depends! We can be under a lot of pressure to know exactly what our strategy is for each area of our business – and overall knowing where you are heading is a very good idea. But…. spending huge amounts of time developing, writing and refining strategies […]