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Am I Really a Successful Blogger?

This is going somewhere, please stick with me. So doing the working out loud thing is become more solid for me. Posting what ‘one’s blog’ is making is a daring way of making it work and offering something for people to follow and hopefully collaberate and chip in with advice and comments too. I am going to work on a deeper integration with my Mailchimp email tribe this is the place I have been working on the longest and where my longest, but not always my deepest relationships are. It all st
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#TAGtribe Blog SME’s – victims of their own success by @lenarobinson

Over the years I’ve discovered SME’s who’ve become victims of their own success. They might’ve launched a ground breaking innovation, which has proved extremely popular; perhaps they’ve smashed their sales targets. They have been so successful that the business has reached breaking point. They’re awake at 3am worrying about how they’re going to keep all of the plates spinning and they have to be up in 3 hours if they are to have a hope in hell of making a dent in the ‘To Do’ list. Sound fa
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To Fix or Not To Fix – Soon Your Mortgage Decision Will Be Made For You by Ed Sayers

It’s been widely reported that inflation has increased to 3.7% (CPI).  Along with the increasing pressure for the Bank of England to increase the base rate from 0.5% this should have the 7 million variable rate mortgage borrowers reviewing their mortgages. Swap rates, which underpin fixed rate mortgages, have started to rise and mortgage rates look as though they have bottomed out.  Lenders have been withdrawing products and are relaunching them at higher rates.  For example, Skipton Buildin
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#tagtribe Blog - The Do’s and Don’ts When Looking at Gas and Electricity Contracts - by @ukenergybroker

Many businesses out there are paying twice what they should for their gas and electricity. It’s not a massive percentage, but I come across enough of them to know that it’s a fair few. Some of them have been with the same provider (usually British Gas) since they started the company in 19…. whenever, some of them say “oh yes, I called up 4 companies, bla bla bla was the cheapest by far” others, well others just don’t bother looking and are being rolled into new contracts and don’t know i
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Have you looked at the cost of your businesses? SME 2.0 Blog by @AdrianCorbett #tagtribe

As everyone knows, credit has been hard to come by for some time now, and we have noticed a definite decrease in the number of deals financed by any significant level of debt (e.g. company acquisitions, management buyouts, etc) in the last 18 months or so. We are not seeing any signs of recovery in the level of lending from any British banks, nor are we seeing anything to suggest that that is going to change in the near future. Our clients are therefore largely either doing deal
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Cash is King - Carbon is Queen SME 2.0 Blog by @EEPaul #tagtribe

Earlier this year, I was asked to write a short piece for Construction Manager magazine about the top 10 technology trends in construction (see blog post). Several of the trends I wrote about will have a much wider influence that many people think, particularly given the importance of the construction industry to the economy as a whole. Take Building Information Modelling (BIM) for instance. It may not surprise you to know that the UK construction industry hasn't yet widely embraced th
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Green with envy...

Innocent bystander suggested an examination of the emotion of envy as a clear route to goal setting.  I was slightly suspicious of this suggestion at first and realised that my well trained Catholic guilt (there is an Albatross to ones development if ever there was one) automatically dissuaded me  from an constructive entertainment of this 'sin' well it might be a 'sin' in heaven but it is an emotion on earth.  The other barrier was my own commitment to 'positive thinking' or PMA, nearly all my