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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Last night I organised and chaired an event for the FSB here in north Norfolk. After a long spell of dropping numbers at events I was asked to come on board and give some fresh ‘young blood’ input into proceedings to attract people back to events. So working on the basis of ‘give them what they want’ my suggestion was a question and answer surgery type format around the...
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