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...

Many people are creatures of habit; they have their little routine which must be obeyed such as having a fag and a cup of coffee as soon as they arrive at the office, or switching on the computer and seeing what emails they have. Surprisingly such routine habits are not often transposed within what you would term a...

Business networking has been around for a number of years now. Currently, it would seem that more and more people are setting up their own business networking groups - because for some, not only does it seems like a good thing to do and makes them feel busy and important, but they also see it as a way to build a datab...

Time and time again local businesses when in the pursuit of sales and having made initial contact will say “I’ll just wait and see what they think”, "I’ll wait and see if they have any questions first” or “I’ll wait and see if they like the quote or not”. Exactly...

When a lender such as a bank or another finance body lends money directly to a person or business, they first have to ultimately establish the feasibility in the worthiness of the borrower(s) in their ability to pay back. For such lenders to establish this they will run all funding/loan applications through a process ...