This is different – a recruitment company that: to use that dreadful cliche…. ‘thinks out of the box‘ Now before you think I am over dramatising this a little, let me tell why it is so different. This company actually pays the successful candidate 50% of the fee they get paid from their clients!  Now before [...]

Franchising is used to describe many different forms of business relationships, including licensing, distributor and agency arrangements. The more popular use of the term has arisen from the development of what is called ‘Business Format Franchising’. This today the fastest-growing segment of franchising and has spread to virtually every sector of the economy in UK. It has [...]

0440. Getting ready for the trip today to London. The Pendalino’s are brilliant but expensive. New franchisee joins hopefully # Fern on £.75m. Well done Fern. What’s Schofield on? # Two hours thirteen to London from Preston. Makes business easy to do now. Brian Cresswell will have news on Monday; business. Stay tuned. # These [...]

What’s happening out there… From redundancy in the building sector Ryan gets a job selling Honda cars; month to date sold 13 which is over budget. The dealership is also over budget but only on used cars. New cars are under budget but not desperately so. In the sector itself the news is dreadful as [...]

Recruitment Agencies (I have one) are risking damage to themselves, their employers and the industry as they are increasingly caught out in unethical acts.  If the tougher conditions have a positive side, it is that they will ultimately weed out the poor agencies behaving in ways that can provide only short-term gains. (1) Faking jobs: Take a [...]

Well this weekend I learned something new; something I had read about; ignored and and didnt know. Searches on Google Bamboo Solutions let me have a little tip. I had my blog hosted in Germany because 1and1.co.uk have their servers there even though they boast UK (.co.uk) domain. Because of that and the fact that my primary domain; or at the least [...]

If you listen to estate agents and surveyors and believe what they say about the housing market, they have some interesting news:  The frozen housing market is thawing and buyers are coming back into the market….. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7905982.stm What’s your opinion of the housing market; Gordon; David Cameron?

From US Today: One thing I am thinking about for 2009 is starting a franchise. “There are franchises out there that I like a lot and which I think; I would be successful in both in this economy and in my area. But how do I know if I would make a successful franchisee? I have [...]