Author Archives: Ozzy

Do your customers really know your business?

Last month I ran a customer survey across all customers who had placed an order with my Quick Formations business at least once over the past 2 years. If you are interested you can read more about that specific survey … Continue reading

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Share your business knowledge and experiences

As some may know, I chair the Area Board for Young Enterprise covering the Northampton and Daventry area. One thing never ceases to amaze me is the shortage of people willing to volunteer their time to share their knowledge and … Continue reading

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My stolen motorbike and Twitter

It has been a couple of months since my last blog post, and mainly down to time constraints and also the only things I could think of blogging about in my life were commercially sensitive. Bad excuse I know, but … Continue reading

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The bank is not your enemy

There has been so much negative press about banks lately, and yes I know that the people at the top have made some very big mistakes, but I still don’t get this whole the bank is the bad guy thing … Continue reading

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Social Media – Is it a waste of time?

This morning I attending an event in Milton Keynes where the speaker gave a presentation on using Social Media Advertising in your own business. I went along hoping to learn something I am missing, pick up that little nugget of … Continue reading

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Are the banks really not lending?

This morning I was at a breakfast meeting and bumped into my bank relationship manager from RBS whilst I was mid conversation with a relationship manager from Clynsedale Bank. We were having a discussion about, as if anything else, the … Continue reading

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Deeper & Deeper in Debt

I have a very personal dislike of debt, or credit, depending on your perspective. Yet it is a very important part of business life, and when you are small business having your credit terms abused by many (often larger) customers … Continue reading

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Support The Young Enterprise Awards

YOUNG ENTERPRISE COMPANY PROGRAMME In the Northampton/Daventry Area of Northamptonshire we have 9 schools running 11 companies for one academic year. The students or achievers as we like to call them, who run the companies, are aged between 15 to … Continue reading

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Should I adopt Guerilla Marketing?

Guerilla Marketing is a great term, and if done right a fantastic method of promotion for a business and/or product. The thing is, you need to be a certain type of character to do it properly, and this is something I’m … Continue reading

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Remembering Your Customer

I had an enxperience last week that made me think I need to write about that in my blog, after all it has been a long time since I wrote anything on here! Then, again this morning something happened that … Continue reading

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