Julian’s Business Tips: Is Your Business Like My Ankle? As some of you know, I do a bit of running and, earlier this year, I had a problem with a sore ankle. Now I did A level biology, so Dr Google and I decided I had tendonitis and put together a sensible treatment plan. But the pain never went away completely. I was confident it was tendonitis, … [Read more...]

Julian’s Business Tips: Your Starter For Ten... Years ago, an old sales manager of mine laughed at me when I told him I wasn’t competitive. Cheek! ‘You,’ he continued, ‘are one of the most competitive people I know – you don’t even enter the competition unless you think you’re going to win it!’ On reflection I realised that he was right. I … [Read more...]

Julian’s Business Tips: Delivering Efficiency As I was helping one of my teenagers deliver an award-winning local magazine to Royston residents, one of the householders complimented me on the fact that I had walked around his front garden and down his drive rather than taking the shortcut across the shrub bed - as some other delivery people … [Read more...]

Julian’s Business Tips: Bountiful Business Harvest I love this time of year as the tractors begin to ‘plough the fields and scatter the good seed on the land’, taming the scruffy post-harvest fields into a neatly-combed, autumnal landscape. As a young agricultural student, I cultivated many a field – in fact one of my more enjoyable summers was … [Read more...]

Julian’s Business Tips: Difficulties Or Opportunities? You don’t need me to tell you that lockdown has been difficult for many businesses. But Einstein famously said, ‘In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity’, so here are some opportunities you may like to grasp: 1. Relaxed rules In some cases, the government has eased regulations to help … [Read more...]