The loneliness of the long distance runner
The first time I saw him, I was out walking the dog. It was a Sunday morning and the streets were deserted as people slept away their Saturday night binges. He was as surprised as I was when he turned the corner and saw us. One moment he was running, the next he was walking, [...]
The key to making money
Glasgow is full of locksmiths. It’s not hard to find one lodged between a Greggs and an RBS on many a road. So there I was, in Glasgow’s West End, needing a set of keys cut and with more choices than I knew what to do with. This particular locksmith’s shop front caught my eye. [...]
How to keep on top of Web Filing and important tax dates
Web filing, corporate tax, annual returns… they all have one thing in common: they come around and slap you hard every year. And unlike the number 12 to Kings X, these events are never late for a date. When I registered my second company, I did exactly the same thing I did with my first [...]
Why never sleeping is better for you and your business
We need sleep. Nobody can argue with this. How much sleep is an ongoing debate with many schools of thought supporting various ideas on the subject. I myself have tried different ideas out and on one occasion completely wrecked my sleeping patterns for three months. In my quest for efficiency I discovered the work of [...]
Domain Renewal letter warning!
If you registered your own domain name for your business (or for personal purposes) you’ll know that there is a renewal few every so often. Generally – unless you extend the period of hiring for longer – a .co.uk domain name expires after 2 years (at which point it has to be renewed) and a [...]
How to get things cheaper
Recently one of my favourite clients – a natural salesman if ever there was such a thing (which of course there never was) gave me a fantastic buying tip. I had popped round to his office to offer some help with an issue he was having. Normally I would deal this with any issue on-line, [...]
The annoying phantom 0800 wrong number caller
Recently my 0800 number has been ringing off the hook, which is odd since I haven’t been marketing it. But here’s the annoying thing… Whenever I answer, the caller says: sorry wrong number’ and hangs up. At first I thought nothing of it. But very soon I began to get a little annoyed. I knew [...]
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