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The last couple of years have totally changed our attitudes to the words ‘trust in business‘.  Many businesses whom people automatically trusted, have fallen in our estimation.  Banks and financial institutions along with the car manufacturing industry proved that their business models were broken and damaged our trust.  The Dow Jones index even dropped 8% in 10 minutes during the week and altho it was restored quickly it now leaves  [ Read More ]

This is a guest post by Ellen Longo of Astro4Business Intersections: Business Success through Astrology Recently I came across a report by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) about opportunities for Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) in a downturn.  For those of us in small business, what they call M&A, we call buying or selling a business.   At my last “M&A” opportunity I made a fundamental mistake.  I want to share  [ Read More ]

When I first went to Ireland, I worked hard on a business plan & got a business visa for many years through the Justice Department.  It was a long process but it was doable.  I had been trying to get funding for an online matchmaking business in London for 4 years and finally had to close the business down last year due to the difficulties in achieving that goal.  It  [ Read More ]

‘Pay It Forward’ was a brilliant movie – so inspiring & very sad at the end.  Its obvious from the economic challenges of the last few years that if we focus on benefit to others that we also benefit.  If we focus on only benefiting ourselves then everyone suffers.  The summary of the idea is as follows: If someone did you a favor – something big, something you couldn’t do  [ Read More ]

There have been a few conversations on the net this past week about advertising and ad blocking.  Many people have been complaining that ad blocking is hurting good sites who depend on advertising revenue.  Ars Technica posted an article ‘Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love’.  They thought that people were using ad block with malice but the results of a 12hour experiment they ran, where content  [ Read More ]