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Is Your House Right for Your Home-Based Business?
If you’re starting a new home-based business, you’ve probably put a lot of thought into the business part, but what about the “home-based” part? For your new business to succeed, your house should be a good fit for your new endeavour, however there are many reasons that your current home may not be the best…
Week 30 #WOTD – Stage Fright in Cup Round 4
Before we get into the winners and losers of Cup Round 4 and who has made it through to the quarter-finals, a quick reminder on the rules and setup of WOTD can be found on our earlier blog HERE Now on to the results and to find out who swung and missed? Auto Trader finally…
Week 29 #WOTD – Peer pressure
No more Euro football but we have the Olympics to get our fix of goals, but we’re not focussing on either here. Watch Of The Day (WOTD) continues to bring you weekly highlights of the winners and losers in the FTSE20 league. This week, the leaders took charge and those near the bottom proved why…
Week 28 #WOTD – Pingdemic
5 positive scorers, one netted 0 which means 14 made a loss this week. So, with the biggest item in the new being the ‘pingdemic’ let’s focus on how that is affecting the big movers (in a very simple way). First of all, pingdemic does not mean more people pinging the post… It is that…
How brand loyalty nearly got my little niece adopted…
Today’s post has been brought to you by our training partner Hayley of Gain Momentum Marketing – marketing specialists. Brilliant content around branding and an even better bonus at the end. So let me hand you over to the expert… How brand loyalty nearly got my little niece adopted… I remember it as if it was yesterday.…
Shifting to Ecommerce? 5 Ways to Boost Sales
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, many business owners realized that if they wanted their companies to stay afloat, they would need to set up online stores so that customers could continue patronizing them during lockdowns. But during this rapid transition, lots of entrepreneurs were implementing their new ecommerce strategies on the fly, and there was plenty…
Week 27 #WOTD – Debt worries
Bad week for most this week with an average 0.9% loss on values in a week. BP had it worse with a 4.6% loss, but they retain 3rd position with over 20% year to date gains. This weeks loss was due to the drop in oil prices Full Story Vodafone (VOD) are now in negative…
Week 26 #WOTD – NEDs
Last week was cup week so even though the majority of teams this week didn’t gain or lose by more than 1%, there are some big movements in the league from two weeks ago. First of all, as we should all now expect, with minimal movement in most stocks what does this mean for London…
Risk Management for Entrepreneurs
Everyone has their own level of risk and when it comes to running a business thenumber of risks increase, the level of risks increase and the combined impact of risksmultiply! So, to make sure you are comfortable with your combined risk level acrossthe board you need to undertake the very important first step… identifying the…
Week 25 #WOTD – Cup Round 3 winners into the final 16
There may be no Euro football to watch today, but you can still get your cup competition fix following Watch of The Day Cup week! Round 3 this week has knocked out another 16 from the FTSE100 companies leaving us with a final 16 competing. Who will make it all the way? If you missed…
Week 24 #WOTD – Commodities and sponsorships
Top execs were shouting at commodity prices this week… Commodity prices have come under pressure which resulted in big weekly losses for BHP Group (BHP) down 5.2%, Glencore (GLEN) down 7.3% and Anglo American (AAL) down a whopping 9.2%. Somehow Glencore are still clinging on to their top spot but Lloyds Banking (LLOY) are just…
Patience in business
Are you being patient enough in your entrepreneurial journey? Patient in growth Being patient in growth means; Not rushing into decisions – a lack of research can often result in mistakes and cost your business.Not making decisions due to lack of options – it is great to have stretch goals, however this can lead to…
Week 23 #WOTD – Pharma beating the banks
Pharma is up and banking is down this week. GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) had a stellar week with a 4% gain, however they were only on 0.1% before this so the 4.1% year to date does not move them from 17th. While AstraZeneca (AZN) were close behind for the week with 3.9% gain, moving them from 10th…
To do, to feel, to be lists
I have just read one of the latest podcast headlines from Tim Ferriss and included within the episode is the importance of “To-Feel” lists (the episode has been added to my backlog of podcasts to catch up on!). I journal every weekday morning and realised although I’ve never termed it my “To-Feel” list this is…
How are you spending your time?
Are you building healthy or unhealthy habits? Successful or unsuccessful habits? This is the question I’m pondering as I write this. This morning as I began my day, I had the usual flurry of emails come in and prioritised reading an email from babypips.com. Why? babypips have provided me some great knowledge and learning on…
Week 22 #WOTD – Investment special
Not too much movement in the league this week, the top 3 are still the top 3 and the only ones with 30%+ gains for the year to date, the bottom 3 are still the bottom 3 and the only ones throwing it in their own net and recording a loss year to date. BP…
Global Running Day
Today is Global Running Day, the first Wednesday in June every year! I love my running and ran this morning, yet I did not know this annual celebration was in the calendar. This got me thinking – how many celebrations, events and/or key dates business owners are missing every year when it comes to their…
Getting into the zone
With the hot weather finally here, getting into the zone, distraction free, will be harder! So what are your methods and have you set yourself up to succeed? Here are 6 quick tips to help you stay focussed on these lovely summer days: Plan your diary – include work and, importantly, non-work items so you…
Week 21 #WOTD – Cup Week Round 2
Cup week is back again with the 2nd round, 64 teams entering and only 32 progressing to the next round… let’s see how they did. The highest scorer this week was Melrose Industries with 6.26% (gain in the week) knocking out Smith & Nephew who recorded a 1.22% loss. Next up was Entain knocking out…
Week 20 #WOTD – Stop everything…
Stop everything…London Stock Exchange (LSEG) who have been rock bottom all year were the highest scorers for the week with a 3.9% gain! Still nowhere near getting them off the bottom but a continued run in this form would do them good. Inflation and more Bitcoin volatility hit the FTSE overall so it’s no surprise…
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Contributors
Gary LinTicker – Talking business from a gamification point of view and how this can help you, includes Watch of The Day 
Bizzy Elliot – Energetic, exciting, light on her toes and here to talk about the creative side of business 
Bill Smith – The Fresh Prince of Financial Flair is here to talk all about the money side of business 
Hans Solopreneur – Talking the pros and cons, tips and tricks of running a business on your own to building a team
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