Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Well, Reality Check please!
As a small home maintenance business trying to conduct business in an age of more and more stealth taxes I am not a big supporter of grandiose plans to drive me further out of the market place. The current multi million pound propaganda drive to convince us ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
I tell my contractor mates on a regular basis that they should follow up on everything they do. Not just quotes or estimates. If you undertake a Gas Safety Check for a client place their document in file dated eleven months from now and call them or send them ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
We recently placed an ad for builders mate (a helper for one of our operatives). The job would entail helping the maintenance engineer with day-to-day work in and around the Greater Manchester Area. We were not necessarily looking for any qualifications and hoped that we might get lucky and find ...
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
About two months ago Demon Thus made the business decision to cap my service due to what they said was a misuse of my privilages. See my original BLOG on the subject HERE. They can of course make any policy they want and customers like our business will either have ...
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
It is with a sad heart that we say goodbye to Bill Gates. It's been an affair that stretched twenty seven years. But like all good things it finally had to come to an end. I'm not shedding any tears though as Microsoft has cost me dearly in the past ...
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
This is an article I never thought I'd have to write but I thought it wise to alert other small businesses to the concept of the ever lower and creeping broadband usage bar being undertaken by not only my provider THUS/Demon but others as well. In a shocking discovery that ...
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
Today was no exception. The day was set aside to catch up on all of the running around, paperwork and phone calls that just can't be done while concentrating on a customers job. And as the customer is paying me to work and not sort out my accountinng or tax ...
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
An easy day today so hopefully some time later to get caught up on paperwork. But first I have to replace a faulty razor socket for a tenant in Manchester City Centre and then go look at a boiler replacement job. As with any call in the city, parking is ...
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Do you run a small business? Are you so busy that its hard to follow up on poor payers? Have you had a client play the game of putting off payments for so long you feel like your head is about to explode? Me too. So I did something about ...
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
Well today was a mixed bag. I started the day at a customers rental property where the tenant was reporting a large noise in the boiler. When they turned off the stop tap the knocking sound went away. I went by very early in the day and discovered that they ...
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