Lifestyle businesses are fine – you have permission to start one
I have never understood the antipathy and dislike that otherwise rational people have for lifestyle business. The heart of the issue is this question: what constitutes business success? I guess for some it’s size; others have other measures. In an age of growing awareness of carbon footprint, in a time when the fastest growing businesses are [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Franchises and business comment – Born in the storm.
The recession may be over but the turbulent last couple years has taken its toll leaving many people out of work and redundant. With the current unemployment figure being the highest since the mid 1990’s, it’s obvious that there are many looking for work or wondering how best to get their lives back on track. For [...]
What of the barriers to entry for Healthcare in the UK
Yesterday was a great day. Spent most of it in transit to; attending and returning from a meeting with a local authority to discuss the latter stages of a tender application to provide social and domiciliary care in one of our large cities. Size of the particular contract up for grabs £8,000,000+. Number of attendees and active in [...]
