Enjoyed listening to Tony Benn on Radio 4 yesterday, talking about the book published (today) of great political speeches from Hansard. He described Members of Parliament as being “signposts or weathercocks”. The signposts take a view, based on their convictions and hold that view unerringly throughout their political lives, unless persuaded otherwise by events or
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Here’s a link to a Sheffield Telegraph article on how S10 Dental are bringing other small businesses in their area together. Another example of the sterling work done by practice manager Julie Webster. Now, more then ever, you MUST engage with other entreprenuers in your location. An added-value alliance – you converse with each partners
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Friday evening and a 4-hour wait for my flight from Edinburgh to Exeter and then a late drive home to Falmouth. A chance to reflect on an inspirational trip north of the Border and some new friends. Wednesday was a delight – to meet with Willie and Xandra Maceachan and the team at the newly
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How rare is it to see a principal or a team who are proud of their brand? I want to see and hear the following: Proud – of the brand that has been created Precious – about any feedback Passionate – about making the brand visible I mentioned, in last week’s ezine, the new web
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Here’s a question from Harry Singh at Aesthetics in Hatfield: Hi Chris, We have a pub across from T-Mobile. A lot of the corporates go their for lunch. We are trying to promote ourselves to these lunch time customers, however since it is a chain of pubs, they do not allow any companies to advertise,
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A thank you to Kimberly Black for bringing to my attention Instapaper – a ridiculously simple web page that allows you to add a bookmark to your menu where you can store web pages for “reading later”. Click here

My head is spinning with “bright shiny objects” – opportunities in the market: building private sales within the existing IDH portfolio building private sales within the existing IDH orthodontic business looking for selective acquisitions encouraging the use of technology to facilitate good conversations and a strong brand developing strategic alliances to fill the vacuum that
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The results are here CLICK and I have to say a genuinely warm-hearted “thank you” to all those who cast a vote. I was chatting to Annie about the poll last week and mentioned that I had zero expectations this year, because I have not made one single mention of the Top 50 in any
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Justin writes: Cut a long story short, I just ordered a few bits from Viking direct, when I got the order it came in a box, but with the box came a “New customer” pack. It was just a postal bag and in it was a letter of introduction a product catalogue and a few
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Here’s a sound bite of the “give-away” offer that Liverpool’s independent radio station were offering a few weeks ago. An example of how to get yourself noticed! aintreegiveawaymonday