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There is an old Chinese proverb that goes a little something like this: ‘When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.’ I know, I know, I sound very wise (and more than a little pretentious). However, the point is apt to the current situation. At the moment in […]
Rant Warning! Recently I made a pretty big purchase. I bought a new piece of equipment for my business that is probably the single biggest purchase I have ever made outside of a car or a house. In case you curious, what I bought was a laser cutter, that allows me to cut and engrave […]
Something that I wanted to focus on when I started out in my own business was to help support businesses in my local community, York and Yorkshire as a whole. For the most part, my clients have fallen into these areas, with a few odd jobs reaching out to further afield. On top of that […]
I’ve seen it, its the future! The internet has been around for a while now. We are all pretty used to using it on a daily basis for everything from shopping to communicating and organising our lives. Even our fridges and ovens have wifi connections (for some reason) So, ‘the net’ as we used to […]
It has been said before that war is often the driving force for technological innovation, and if the battle against the Coronavirus is going to improve anything (aside from, ya know medicine), its remote video communications. All of a sudden we have all been thrown into the limelight online. Every meeting is now taking place […]
A Lot of people seem to be operating in a sort of holding pattern at the moment, waiting for the current crisis to blow over so they can get back to work and back to normal life. It seems to me that this is the time to be preparing for when life gets back to […]
There have been a couple of memes floating around saying something to the effect that we all work from home now. While not strictly true, the rules around the coronavirus and social distancing that are in force for over a quarter of the world’s population at the moment certainly mean that at this moment, more […]
This is Part 1 of a 3 part series of posts on coping with the Covid-19 crisis. Click here for Part 2 – How to stay sane when working from home Part 3 – ‘How to hit the ground running once all this is over’ coming soon I don’t know about you but I am […]
Marketing has changed in the last 15 years. It used to be that you would have to define a demographic by what tv they watched, what radio station they listened to, what paper they read. Now we can now target audiences directly via social media, as everything is known about everyone, so adverts can be […]
I have a guilty pleasure. I know I shouldn’t but I can’t help myself. Every year for the past 10 years or so… I have watched the Apprentice from start to finish. At first it was something that I used to talk about with family and friends, but gradually they all stopped watching, and for […]