As a business owner, you have a lot on your plate. You’re organizing operations, handling clients, and taking care of your office. At the same time, you know managing your business’ finances is essential for ongoing success. The good news is you don’t need a fancy degree or any accounting experience to get started with […]
Age ain’t nothing but a number, especially when it comes to starting your own business. The woes of entrepreneurship don’t discriminate when it comes to age, as entrepreneurs of any age can tell you. However, the ever-widening generational gap between veteran baby boomers and up-and-coming millennials is making for some interesting comparisons in the business […]
Munich car giant, BMW, has announced the latest version of its finest all-round M5 Competition performance saloon and Iain Robertson reveals the visceral pleasure attached to its driving experience and its jaunty cock o’ the snook at the PC brigade. For some unfathomable reason, my relatively local supermarket ceased selling my favourite Allinson wholemeal thick […]
Running a business can be stressful in many different ways. There are so many cogs that have to work simultaneously in order for a business to thrive: the team; the product; the marketing; the customers. In today’s precarious climate during the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses have been under more pressure than ever before to stay afloat […]
Coronavirus has had a significant, unprecedented impact on businesses and individuals, with freelancers being among the worst hit. While there has been expert advice for freelancers, a dip in demand has meant that many have struggled. While you can’t go back in time and do things differently, you can change your future. Take a look […]
Employees are what keep their company’s pockets lined, but employers don’t always treat them as well as they should. Here are some of the reasons people report for being unhappy at work. No flexibility Flexibility is important. Many employees will have childcare commitments and other things going on in their lives meaning rigid working hours […]
Buoyed by significant sales increases in the lead up to the pandemic lockdown, highlights Iain Robertson, the notionally Iberian arm of the VW Group, Seat, is using the ‘return-to-work’ period to launch a series of model revisions, some of which are overdue. Seat is an acronym. The letters stand for ‘Sociedad Espanola de Automoviles de […]
One of Savile Row’s first female tailors, Alexandra Wood opened her first out of town store in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire in 2016. The commuter town, 45 minutes from Central London, has the oldest tailors in England and quite possibly in the world with the shop trading as a “men’s clothing establishment” for more than 400 […]
The pandemic has upset the plans of many companies and events, not the least in the field of motorsport, which Iain Robertson suggests has been decimated by a variety of extenuating circumstances, including money and cancelled dates. The rampant nature of the Chinese disease has wrought untold problems for event organisers, racing teams, commercial sponsors […]
Server virtualization has become a real “gamechanger” for data centers and for the people that manage and administer it. It has offered efficiency in an era where it is desperately required. Unfortunately, there are very few businesses that are 100% virtualized. For the businesses that have managed to virtualize most of the servers that they […]
