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Some excellent news on the commercial vehicle front….
Daimler AG is presenting 11 vehicles with alternative drive systems at this year’s IAA Commercial Vehicles in Hanover, including three world premieres from the Mercedes-Benz brand. The world’s biggest manufacturer of commercial vehicles uses environmentally friendly drive systems powered by gas, hybrid, and fuel cell technologies. The aim [...]

Following on from the successful ‘Driving in France‘ and ‘Driving in Africa‘ blog I posted earlier this week, I was chatting to Cultural Training expert Dr. Lalita Du Perron. I persuaded her to share with us a an experience she has had, of driving in India.
Some years ago I was having dinner with friends in [...]

I have to give a special “Thank You” to Nikki Pilkington The UK’s leading internet marketing expert. Being tagged is a game bloggers play where they have to write six random things about their self, and tag six other people. If you twitter, you can follow Nikki here
Tagging -  I know I am going have [...]

This bank holiday weekend, I have been talking to  Laury Burr of Data Dynamics. Having met Laury countless times over the last year, I never fully realised what he actually did. so I asked him, and I was surprised at the range of his skills.  All this and more, from the man behind the mask…

Laury, [...]

Image via Wikipedia Who runs your business?A while ago I spoke to a chap who runs a company that provides accounting solutions. The business has been established ten years and he sees it as a service company. They have about fifty active clients whose value to them is anything from £1,000 to £60,000 a year [...]

“Get your ACT together, mate!”

Your Attitude and Approach

Your Customer Care

The way you’re seen to Trade

Getting the work in is often seen as the hardest part for any start up and, for many, it is one of the hardest.

Few are trained in sales and marketing or the best ways to grow profitable customers once they ‘come [...]

Apart from soaring fuel prices and the economy being on the brink of recession which we can’t, on our own, do anything about.
Let’s instead look at the ways couriers can each improve their own lot by having extra tools and learning additional skills.
My questions are:
What would a struggling or start up business in the courier/ [...]

This is the seventh blog in a series of blogs by Linda Mattacks, who trains people how to sell within their comfort zone
What do you need for business success?
Apart from competency in what your core business does, you also need access to skill sets in certain broad areas that will have an [...]

This is the sixth blog in a series of blogs by Linda Mattacks, who trains people how to sell within their comfort zone
I’ve just taken a sales call. It could have been funny if it wasn’t so out of order.
The guy introduces himself with his full name (Joe Smith - hmm) and [...]

This is the fiifth in a series of blogs by Linda Mattacks, who trains people how to sell within their comfort zone

Business Growing Pains – An Everyday Horror Story
About 70% of businesses in the UK are described as one-man bands/ sole traders/ individual consultants (depending on their trade or profession ).
There’s a [...]

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