Posted by Guy Clapperton on 12th March 2008.
OK, I think we’ll take all the digs about journalists going off that nice Mr. Darling because of the hikes on alcohol as read - suffice it to say a lot of us will be binge buying very quickly.
There’s a lot of positive stuff in this budget, though - and after Northern Rock there needed [...]
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Posted by Alex Bellinger on 22nd January 2008.
When I first started my own business some three years ago, I was an avid frequenter of small business and startup forums (and I still am).
While picking the brains of various experts on the boards, there was one name that kept cropping up with really excellent advice on the nitty-gritty of basic small business [...]
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Posted by Guy Clapperton on 14th December 2007.
This is getting disturbing. I know, I know, I should be spreading Christmas cheer and with a bit of luck and a prevailing wind I’ll do so next week. You’ll be preparing for tonight’s office party (fact: more companies have this Friday as their office party than any other night) and want a bit of [...]
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Posted by Guy Clapperton on 5th December 2007.
It’s December so I’m going to allow myself the use of the ‘C’ word. No, I’m not going all festive just yet, bah humbug to that until I start my Christmas shopping next week. However, there are things we need to consider about Christmas in terms of financials.
First, how much do you spend on entertaining [...]
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Posted by Guy Clapperton on 21st November 2007.
Ouch. Someone loses a couple of CDs and HMRC - and the Government - have to admit that two twenty five million [edited] sets of details have gone missing. Very much an ouch, although there appears to be no need to panic as there’s no evidence to suggest anyone is misusing the data. My [...]
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Posted by Guy Clapperton on 24th October 2007.
I had an interesting discussion with a commissioning editor last week. It was, you’ll recall, shortly after the mini-budget. Anyway, I had a case study of a company that had saved loads of money with remote technology rather than physically visiting people to do its work, and a nice study from the Carbon Trust about [...]
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