As part of a group of companies who not only survived the great recession from 2008 to 2010 by the skin of our teeth, but have thrived ever since and built further successful companies on the back of the ones we kept going, here are our top tips for surviving a recession or dip in…
We often get asked by PR companies and agencies whether we will accept a guest blog article written for our blog by one of their “expert bloggers”. In 20 years we have not found one suitable article we would accept on our pages as paid content. I always write back to ask how much they…
Help – the boss has asked me to type a transcript of a recording. What do I do? Don’t worry; obtaining a transcript of an audio recording is extremely easy and something that if you are a secretary or PA you really should not be doing. Why? Because to complete a transcript of a recording…
I have to confess that I’m probably as bad as just about everyone else in the world in that I regularly rely on online reviews to determine whether or not I go ahead with a purchase. My particular area for using them is when we are delving through lists from holiday rental companies and need…
Today we had the first review on our company since we moved offices. All our previous reviews have been removed courtesy of a very strange Google requirement that online businesses have a photo of their shop-front showing their company name, but we were very excited to see that someone had been on to Google and…
Google Ads (formerly known as Ad Words) is one of the key stones to the Google empire we think, with ad revenues generating pretty much most of the income that Google makes as a business. Our company has been with Google Ads for many years, and it has always proved to be a useful source…
There are a number of ways to check whether a solicitor is who they say they are. Firstly, every solicitor in England and Wales has to have a practising certificate if they are dealing with the general public or, if they are working for a company in house or a local authority, they have to…
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For many small businesses it is a bane of their life that at some point they are going to end up in a court defending or claiming against someone for money. The case can be clear cut, it can be flimsy, you may have a counter claim or a large claim, the other person may…
We recently moved one of our company office addresses from an address in North London to an address in Central London. We had been at the North London address for about 2 years, and prior to this we had been using another address closer to Central London. We thought it would be fairly straightforward to…
