How safe is my money, part 2

I recently asked whether there was any protection for business customers if a bank were to go bust.
It turns out, there is.
Small, and indeed not so small limited company businesses receive the same protection as savers (i.e. £50,000), provided that:

Your turnover is below £6.5m
Your balance sheet does not exceed 3.26m
You employ under 50 people

That covers [...]

Don’t DIY- but make sure you could, if you had to…

One of the best pieces of business advice I’ve received is also one I personally find really hard to follow; namely, don’t do it all yourself.
I’m one of those people who wants to have my nose in every aspect of the business. It’s not that I think I could do everything better myself, rather, I [...]

The answer is always yes!

Don’t be surprised if I disappear for a few weeks.
I’d love to say I was on holiday, but I’m not. No- for some reason, recession and whatnot aside, the phone hasn’t stopped ringing. In the space of three weeks, I have gone from having “a reasonable amount of work” to “so-much-that-I-might-as-well-keep-a-sleeping-bag-in-the-office”.
Now, all work and no play [...]

Getting a good team together

There’s an old saying: “If you want to get a job done properly, you’ve got to do it yourself”.
I have to admit, I have always been the sort of person who agreed with that. Like many entrepreneurs, I want everything done my way. And when other people do the job, it’s never quite how I [...]

So, is this a recession, then, or what?

Soothsayers and sleight-of-hand merchants, magicians and Victorian side-show owners. They’re as good a bet in understanding the current economic climate as anyone in the press.
I mean, what sort of misguided fool would proffer their opinion on this recession? Who’d be daft enough to stick their head above the parapet?
Er… me. I can’t help it. So, [...]