Beals Barn – A Local Business Phenomenon
All successful businesses do much the same things, but they are harder to do than you might think. I help run a business association where I live in Wadhurst, East…
These articles illustrate how and when to apply leverage. If you want to make more money you will need to leverage others’ time, expertise, and cash; probably all of these things. Both the process and the timing can be critical to how well it works out.
Employees: Who’d Have ‘Em?
Applying leverage, in its many forms, is essential if you want to build a bigger and more valuable business. In order to support my local business association, in Wadhurst, East…
Value from Maps
Provenance is a great source of value even without formal intellectual property protection. We are all familiar with provenance being a distinctive product characteristic; it often donates quality food from…
How to Build a Billion Dollar Business in Less Than Four Years
Timing is almost everything, but you still need to execute with confidence. I’m a bit of a Luddite when it comes to computer games, although I do have an “app”…
The Rule of Three
All things being equal the best connected people are the most successful. My mother, Mary, always used to say that “bad things always come in threes” so she would be…
Listen to Radio 1
Young people are a valuable source of inspiration. I am an avid listener to BBC Radio 1, a channel dedicated to current popular music and aimed primarily at the 14-29…
Olive Breadsticks
Business advice is often harder to put into practice than it sounds. I have just spent a couple of weeks working in the United States and even though I was…
Sheer Hippy Pants
Why Lululemon has been so successful. Lululemon is fascinating. It is a phenomenally successful Canadian brand of trendy work-out gear. At the moment it is in the news because it…
Rent Boys
When does a marketing expense become a bribe? This morning I treated myself to breakfast at Wealden Wholefoods, a little vegetarian cafe in Wadhurst, East Sussex, where I ate the…
alex.i.am
What we can all learn from super-achievers. As I have an audience for this blog in many countries around the world I worry sometimes that my subject matter might not…