The occasional blog posts over the years by Richard Osborne
I finished my last blog post at the start of 2005, mentioning during 2005 we got a few awards and moved from our second home into a proper office. I also mentioned that was when I purchased UK Business Forums. The start of 2005 was very much head down as I was looking to recover […]
Following on from my previous post, which I’m pleased seems to have been very well received, I’m going to continue from July 2003 and what the next couple of years had in store for me up to the beginning of 2005. If you haven’t already read the start of this story, you should get up […]
I’ve just been writing my latest newsletter for Quick Formations, and part of the story for this newsletter is that the company turns 10 years old in September; and the newsletter had a very big risk of turning into a blog. The reason is because I’ve learnt so much, I’ve experienced so much, and I […]
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 […]
A few years ago there was an active industry with a good few hundred companies in the UK trading at varying levels of success, from big companies to small one man operations. This industry was just like any other, providing income and jobs to hundreds maybe thousands of people in the UK. This industry was […]
I read Duncan Bannatyne’s autobiography last year, and must confess to finding it a good inspirational story. However I’d like to use one piece of advice he gives in his book that goes against much of the advice offered by many business advisors, and that I myself also disagree with. My first business wasn’t a […]
