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Food for Thought: Employing a sales person? 3 steps to get you started

by Victoria Maclennan | Aug 1, 2016 | Bootstrapping, Growth Business

Selling is hard work – full stop. Startups and growing companies find they need to tackle sales in different ways throughout their life cycles and there is no one-size-fits all to solving that challenge but there are traps for young players so this blog is for...

Business Basics: Insurance is expensive, does my business really need it?

by Victoria Maclennan | May 31, 2016 | Growth Business, Startup

As I mumbled about bill shock from our latest annual insurance bill, I was somewhat surprised / horrified recently when a friend and business owner who I have phenomenal respect for told me that her business didn’t carry insurance. What’s more her...

Business Basics: Staff, choose your first follower wisely

by Victoria Maclennan | May 27, 2016 | Startup

Your First Follower Whether there are 1,2,6 or 10 founders in your company already the first employee is a significant decision. This person sets the tone, is your first follower as you scale, will become your petulant child, is the person you are most open with and...

The importance of hunting those sacred cows

by Victoria Maclennan | May 18, 2016 | Growth Business, Startup

Cows are pretty topical here in the land of Hobbits, our economy is increasingly dependant on them at the same time as evidence emerges showing they are causing some of the pollution tarnishing our clean green image. Those black and white cows aren’t what I am...

Success isn’t Permanent and Failure isn’t fatal

by Victoria Maclennan | Mar 30, 2016 | Bootstrapping, Growth Business, Startup

A wise man once told me this: Life as a business owner is like walking up a escalator that is going down. To just stay in the same place you need to have momentum and energy, sometimes you slip down, other times you find yourself making a few steps of progress towards...
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