Write your own business plan.
That’s right, you want to draw up your own business plan. It’s the first step for any entrepreneur looking to launch a startup and you’ll need one to succeed. Having a business plan is vital to document how your company aims to achieve its goals and what strategy and actions are required to reach them. [...]
Find solid businesses in recession
What types of franchises traditionally are more solid during a recession? Let’s face it, the mere word “recession” strikes fear into many people, because it implies hardship, job loss, and therefore, loss of income. So, in times of recession, those without jobs, but with the economic means, will seek to replace routine employment with self-employment. [...]
The Chasm
It is fairly common for people who are considering business or franchise ownership to look at a directory of business or franchises; magazine lists of “top” franchises and businesses. Many in business are severely skeptical about these lists. I am one of them. Is that really a smart way to find a business or franchise that is [...]
Business – do you start one in 2010 or not?
The courage to begin separates dreamers from achievers. Your difficulty and the difficulty of everyone who ever desires to achieve anything worthwhile comes in the movement. Don’t always be intending to live a new life but never find a time to begin living it. Most people fail because they never get started. They don’t go [...]
Ladies and gentlemen we may have a challenge..
I’ll leave everyone to check this and come to their own conclusions. I’t beggars belief I’m afraid. I need to find a dark room.. Off to find my edifice….
Industry report on the Domiciliary Care Market
With the growth in UK population and our increasing lifespans, the UK has an ever increasing number of older people. 247 Professional Health’s Director Roz Armitage reflects on the sweeping changes that the care services industry has undergone over the last 20 years and the creation of the domiciliary care market. Up to the early 1980s, the [...]
Thoughts on career options for the sick and fed up or the just plain worried
Questions: Have you not found what you are looking for in your career? Are you sick of living under the threat of redundancy? Are you sick of perhaps being redundant? Are you sick of the tribal issues in the company you work for? Are you looking for something to be passionate about? Do you want [...]
