Perhaps a term more known within Birmingham (rumour has it) Arley Barley, was as a kid achieved by crossing your fingers and saying out loud “I have Arley Barley” this effectively meant that you were immune to anything. For instance, if playing tig/tag and you were caught, so long as you had ‘Arle...

Local business people set their alarms late at night in order to wake themselves up at unearthly hours of the morning so that they can head off to a breakfast networking group meeting. Sometimes the meeting may be local to them other times they may have an hour’s or so drive ahead of them before they can stand u...

Last night was ‘The Apprentice’ night which served up a delightful guide on how to export (or not as the case may be), all be it on a very small scale. The task was to select some products from the UK, not currently on sale in France, to see how many items they could sell by targeting their selling...

All businesses need maximum effort put in right at the start, and indeed the same is said throughout the life of the business except that perhaps the effort might be more evenly spread via subcontractors or employees. There are businesses out there which budding local business people may wish to consider as a route...

Today saw the start of us getting back out into the marketplace after spending weeks stuck behind the desk doing the recent upgrade to the Connect WM site. The Black Country Chamber exhibition event which was being held at the Copthorne Hotel at Merry Hill is where we headed off towards. It was held this morning...

Perhaps a bit of a strange thing to be asking out of the blue like this. But never the less it could be well worthwhile as it’s something that you should be doing to see if all is okay. The main reason for saying its strange is because ultimately it’s someone who's in authority who will sign and acc...

Last night brought an end to Black Country-based Melody Hossaini’s participation in the latest series of The Apprentice. She was a project manager for the selling and reinvestment task and not listening and connecting to what the task was, proved to be her downfall. It would seem for many of the project ma...