Category: Small Business

One of the things I want to look at over the Christmastime is my marketing of my business and my brand in 2024. I want particularly to look at the concept of aligning the things I like doing with my marketing efforts. For example, taking photographs, making videos, writing. I think I can create more… Continue reading Making a virtuous circle of small business marketing

If you want to improve your organisation’s performance in 2024, regardless of whether it is a business or non-profit organisation, ask your employees-all of them-these four questions: Then act on the responses.

The 6th December, today, is a date that I will never forget. This is strange and unusual because I have an appalling ability to remember dates. Words and phrases are no problem for me. But I am at a complete loss to remember numbers and dates. Always have been. For some reason, however, I remember… Continue reading 6th December-a date I always remember

I will be retiring my tired, scuffed leather briefcase shortly. When I started my business as a sole practitioner solicitor in 2011, I was focusing on criminal law. My focus was on trying to pick up business in the District Court, but I believed that the fact that I was only newly qualified would operate… Continue reading Why I’m retiring my scuffed, battered briefcase

I hung up this painting in my office last week. It had been hanging in my garage at home for many years and I had not paid much attention to it. It is smoke damaged from a fire which damaged the garage and boundary trees around our property around 10 years ago. It is a… Continue reading I hung this smoke damaged painting in my office last week