73% Of SMEs Are Wasting Money Without Effective Management Software
A recent survey by Applied Business, providers of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software,...
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Category: Bad Business
UK Businesses Are Contributing To The Growing Landfill Problem
An overwhelming number of British companies are failing to recycle efficiently, according to new...
Read MoreStrada Isn’t Broke! It Is Now
There’s an old adage: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” So, we ask ourselves why has Strada started tinkering with its set menu. We used to go to Strada regularly and I have enjoyed probably 100...
Read MoreI Want To Pay Amazon Tax
Reading the piece in The Sunday Times about Amazon paying 0.1% tax on business of £4.2 billion made me wonder if I could do that (not that I’m turning over £4.2 billion). The bottom line is Amazon isn’t doing...
Read MoreBank Holidays
I don’t get bank holidays. The world has moved on. We’re all working on flexible contracts so why do we have them? Anyone have any thoughts on this?
Read MoreCashflow Concerns
I talk to business people at least a couple of times a day and, inevitably, the conversation pretty much always ends up at cashflow. Everyone says, “If everything I’m owed came in right now, I wouldn’t have a...
Read MoreBusiness Is Business…
There’s been a lot in the news this week about supermarkets ‘faking’ special deals by hyper-inflating prices of products several days before they are offered at special discounts or incorporated into special...
Read MoreHigh Street killers! Greedy landlords?
Are greedy landlords really to blame? Hard to defend, but landlords are in business too. However, not all are complete blood-sucking vampires. There’s a particular landlord I know in Cowbridge and she’s passionate about the...
Read MoreNPower – Life’s a gas!
After our recent tap on the shoulder of NPower for appalling customer service, what do they do? That’s right, increase their prices by over 10%. And to make NPower customers choke even more, the NPower CEO has the gall to...
Read MoreNPower underpowered
I had cause to call NPower today and was greeted by the message that there was, and I quote, “A greater than 45 minute wait.” Consider for a moment that this is the customer service number I am calling. I am also...
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