So it’s been a while since my last post. Have I got nothing to say? Nope (well yes), I keep thinking of no end of ideas of posts but it’s simply been a lack of time for various reasons I’ll detail below. Last month I thought to myself “Christmas is coming that’s a great time to catch up on blogging” or catch up on this or that and a whole number of things but...
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My late father left many legacies. Some good, some not so but one thing he taught myself and my siblings was that if a job’s worth doing it’s worth doing well. Perfection was to be strived for. This blog post is about that subject and how many seem to not bother. By 13 I could not only fix a puncture I could service my bike, by 14 decorate my room and I could fix a car before I could...
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I plan to write a few posts about Klout in the coming months but here’s a starter for ten. Observing the behaviour of tweeters I’ve come to the conclusion there are 4 types of attitudes to Klout amongst the users. There are: Those that truly believe that having the greatest Klout score is everything. Those that know it’s not ‘everything’ but act like group 1...
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I was at the Royal Norfolk Show this year helping on a client’s stand in the food hall. It’s actually the first time I’ve been (for various reasons) but next year I definitely want to go along as a visitor. I had a long tiring day but learnt a lot and enjoyed it. Now maybe my view was some what unfairly biased by working in the food hall and not getting to see much outside but...
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A couple of weeks back I had the privilege of  being a mentor on a schools enterprise day working with a bunch of year 9′s (that’s 13 yr olds ). The idea was to come up with a new smoothie flavour and market it including branding, packaging design and strategy including competitor research. This is a complete day out for the youngsters from their regular lessons and for many of them...
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I’ve been thinking today how powerful a single person is. At one end of the scale a single person can start a war and bring around peace or a single person can build a business empire and destroy it (Ratners). Then maybe at the other end of the scale a single person can choose to smile or be miserable and make or break someone’s day. The power of one is very powerful. In the world of...
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My sister gets married in a couple of weeks. On a very tight budget her and her husband to be have been busy making preparations and organising their wedding. For the bit where you have more guests they are having cream teas and that requires scones, lots of scones I guess around 500 ish scones, a lot anyway! My sister approached their local ASDA some time ago to ask if they would bake the...
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