Archive for February, 2009

Trying times…

February 25, 2009

As we launch businesses we’re learning a great deal. Hopefully we’ll just need to learn everything, or make those mistakes, just once. Each new business brings its own new challenges. In our first business it took so long to get our bank account set up that we had income we couldn’t deposit. [...]

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Web services and small business

February 24, 2009

To start up in business in either micro-enterprise, or small-medium enterprise (SME), is in many ways significantly easier nowadays due to the prevalence of web services. Some examples of where we’ve found help are:
- documents and spreadsheets – Google Documents (initial cost – free)
- task management and contacts system – Highrise (initial cost – free)
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Paving cleaning update

February 5, 2009

We’ve got a little website going for Paving Cleaning now.
For a free quote call 0795 641 8558 or email sales@paving-cleaning.com

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All for the sake of a new phone

February 5, 2009

Sometimes you just have to allow for random events:
Seven Men to telecoms company: We’d like a new business line put in
Telecoms to Seven Men: No problem, we’ll come out on x day
X day arrives
Telecoms to Seven Men: We’ve put in the new socket, now we’ll go and sort out the outdoors equipment up the pole [...]

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