How was Friday the 13th?
Friday 13th is actually considered a good luck day in France. Perhaps some retailers had the Cross-Channel Francophone’s luck on their side, as we saw the very first Black Friday deals emerge on Friday 13th – a whole two weeks before the official Black Friday date; 27th November. Black Friday will mark the beginning of […]
Feeling the strain in the distribution network?
Amazon, Royal Mail and DPD are feeling the strain already. Some time ago we were approached by Amazon Shipping who wanted to bring us onboard to use their shipping services. The reaction among our customers was very mixed ranging from excited through to trepidation and scorn. Their business practices were mentioned! Aside from this, Amazon […]
Business As Usual
We are operating very much “Business as usual” and will continue to do so from Thursday onwards. Here is a photo of me and the team we have just taken… it is starting to get busy now, with thousands of orders coming through to be sent out daily. This photo shows just a few of […]
Halloween 2020
I celebrated Halloween this year with my boys by camping outside under canvas, lighting fires, making the house cosy with candles and of course lighting our home-carved pumpkins. (Below: Xander, my youngest, dressed as Stick Man for no apparent reason, wanting a photo with his pumpkin!) The Celtic traditions originated from the Samhain who celebrated […]
Prepare for a no-deal Brexit
Getting Ready for a No-Deal Brexit. Whatever your stance on Brexit, we all need to prepare ourselves for the no-deal Brexit at the end of this year and make sure *all* our international orders are sent seamlessly from January 2021. So here is a check list to help you prepare: Register with HMRC for your […]
Meet The Fab 5!
This week: Meet The Fab 5! As part of a three day Entrepreneurs online convention I attended ten days ago, video was lauded as *the* medium to embrace. As such, I grabbed my trusty Macbook Air and jumped in head first – this was the result… So, with good sense I have now booked someone […]
This week: High Street Sales Up & Overhead Reductions.
This week: High Street Sales Up & Overhead Reductions. Apart from my weekly grocery shop with two laden shopping trolleys for the five of us, which I utterly dread each Saturday, we did some high street shopping this week. It was packed! I popped into Mint Velvet to get some smart clothes for work and […]
Online shoppers urged: Buy early or lose out!
It is feeling properly autumnal now. The beautiful colours, the leaves falling and garden furniture found upside down from the wind! That drop in temperature and the obvious change in the seasons really focuses my mind on this final quarter of the year, which of course in view of this years context is anticipated to […]
Action has meaning only in relationship
We’re having a beautiful Indian summer here in the UK and we’ve all just been in the garden having a sunbathe – not bad for 20th September! Although the reasons behind this warm weather are unlikely to be quite so pleasing. We’re having a very quiet Sunday and I’m on the third re-read of “Hold […]
Half Way Through: My 45th birthday
I’ve just celebrated my 45th Birthday. We’ve had a really lovely weekend. Like the BIG zero birthday’s, this one has made me reflect too, as I would imagine I’m about half way through my life now – at least any reasonable quality of life. I hope! ;o) So what aspirations and goals have I identified […]