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The Dirty Little Secrets of Business - Part 2.

Freya Sykes Written by Freya Sykes
on October 23rd, 2007 / Leave a Comment / Print this

Ok you may remember in Part 1, how I told you all about how through hard work you would make a success of business and that no business – no matter how easy the owner makes it look has ever had an easy ride of things.
Well, here in Part 2 I’m going to let [...]

Taming the “media monster” Part 1.

Freya Sykes Written by Freya Sykes
on October 10th, 2007 / 1 Comment / Print this

Ok, so let’s assume that you are at the start of your business journey and dealing with the media is something that you have just never done before. It’s a little bit scary right? You’ve heard all these rumours about how journalists are out to “get the story” and would sell their Granny [...]

What Is The Right Age To Start Up A Business?

Freya Sykes Written by Freya Sykes
on October 1st, 2007 / 11 Comments / Print this

Is it in the first flush of youth or as you get older and wiser?
Hmm… Well lets have a look shall we?

The Blame Game

Freya Sykes Written by Freya Sykes
on September 26th, 2007 / 2 Comments / Print this

We’ve all done it…you know we’ve made that almighty bodge up of something and it’s had a knock on effect and you can’t quite cover up the mess you’ve made, and well… you really don’t want to admit to it being because you didn’t understand how to use the technology/didn’t know how the systems ran. [...]

Are Social Networks The Next Big Thing For Business?

Freya Sykes Written by Freya Sykes
on September 20th, 2007 / 6 Comments / Print this

Ok I’ll hold my hands up here and say that in the past I was less than taken with Myspace…even so much as taking to calling it the annoying younger sibling of blogging. To an extent I do still stand by that assessment, but if Myspace is the younger sister then Facebook is the [...]

Levelling the Playing Field

Freya Sykes Written by Freya Sykes
on September 7th, 2007 / 1 Comment / Print this

About 20 years ago if you started up in a business you had to go down the “traditional” route to growth of that business.
You had to trade in your local area – usually from an expensive shop or commercial premises. You had to turn a profit doing so, you had to market yourself in the [...]

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