Most established companies these days have PR teams that ensure that every communication is “on message”. Even though big business get it wrong occasionally and we can learn a lot from the mistakes companies such as BP, it’s the indiscretions as a small company than can come back and haunt you. Take Mark Zukerberg for example. The public face and CEO of Facebook made derogatory comments about early...
It can be seen that the bad Apple in Steve Job’s strategy has been the complete and utter lack of a social media strategy and now he hopes to solve it with the new 85.34mb iTunes 10 update that offers something that’s called Ping.
Ping’s Pong?
The interesting element of all this is that Apple have been known for being ruthless in business and exhibiting an uncanny knack of knowing exactly what...
Bank Lending
So what is the real state of affairs with bank lending to small businesses? According to Lloyds Bank small businesses don’t want to borrow whilst the Co-operative Bank have said they’ve more than doubled lending to SMEs. Has there been a swing away from the larger bank lenders to the smaller, potentially more ethical, banking institutions? Or are we just suffering from the effects of PR...
May 20th, 2010 in
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The value of recognising the benefits, limitations and possibilities of various business strategies is immeasurable. Being able to deipher what’s hype and what’s real is so fundamental to the success of any entrepreneur that business Angels poke and prod all who pitch to them to see if they have this skill before considering them for investment. Networking is one such over-hyped strategy. So let’s investigate...
Sep 25th, 2009 in
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Angels Den are longing to meet you next Wednesday (30th September)
So much so, that we’ll even foot the bill. You can’t say fairer than that!
Next Wednesday, 30th September 2009, Bill Morrow and Lois Cook – the Angels Den founders – and Damian Davis are delighted to invite you to meet with them during working hours at our Free Consultancy Session, to talk about anything and everything to do...