The occasional blog posts over the years by Richard Osborne
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 on the Quick Formations Blog. If you would like to run your own survey I […]
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 expertise with the Entrepreneurs of tomorrow. So why should anyone in business work with Young […]
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 then this happened to me… Tuesday 15th September was my birthday, and for a treat […]
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 that seems to be going on. It is being discussed on Twitter, on business forums, […]
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 information that would help me improve my own use of online social media networking. The […]
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 banking situation in the press, Government funding, and the banks calling in of overdrafts and […]
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 you need debt to finance the credit your clients demand. So it comes as no […]
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 18 years old. Each company is selling a varied range of products and this year […]
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 not sure I’m that kind of person to undertake such a task. I’ve been watching […]
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 re-enforced my thought. These events, I was simply remembered, and it made me feel appreciated […]
