
Credit where it's due Get it? I'm a lyrical genius. Anyway we got a Bounce Back Loan! And so did a whole bunch of other businesses - about 70,000 in the first few days since the scheme started alone. While...
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Questionable Motives I'm going to keep this as a-political as I can. I'm getting pretty sick of political tribalism anyway. We should be able to criticise bad decisions & actions regardless of whether it was "our team" that made them...
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Profit as an indicator of performance. I'm on a roll - 4 blog posts in a month! Unprecedented times call for unprecedented measures, lol. I wanted to write a short blog post to make one specific point. I've already covered...
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It's the hope that kills you. In response to the covid-19 pandemic, thousands of businesses across the UK descended upon the banks in order to secure urgent financial support to keep them afloat throughout what is likely to be the...
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Furlough Woes I know. Another whingy post about the UK Gov business support schemes for the covid19 lockdown. I recently blogged about the major problems of the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loans Scheme (CBILS). There's no way of spinning or positioning...
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"Today I am making available an initial £330bn in guarantees, equivalent to 15% of our GDP. That means any business who needs access to cash, to pay their rent, their salaries, suppliers or purchase stock will be able to access...
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The Speed of Marketing When you strip marketing back to its fundamental business functions, by repeatedly asking "why?", you end up with two goals: To increase sales and profit To increase the value of the company Yes, that's two different...
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The “Launch” of Holo Lens Summer 2015: Microsoft wowed the world with demos of its Holo Lens. An amazing prototype Augmented Reality system that frankly blew the socks off anything like it at that time. I sat and watched it...
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This is the guide to losing weight that people need to hear. It's the guide to losing weight that many people don't want me to tell you. But it has nothing to do with 'this one weird trick'. You often hear...
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