Watching the programme “Lying For A Job” the other day I learned about a former taxi driver and waiter Barian Baluchi, who apparently made more than £1m by passing himself off as a medical professor and consultant psychiatrist. Donald Johnston posed as a qualified driving instructor after being jailed for claiming to be a qualified [...]

Recently I’ve been starting to wonder if the Internet is such a good idea. Sure I love that it makes it easy to find out just about anything I could ever want to know. It’s great that SMEs can find hundreds of competitively priced freelancers world wide. The problem however, is that as a result [...]

Jacked Up: The inside story of how Jack Welch talked GE into becoming the worlds greatest company is an account of Bill Lane’s experience working as a speech writer at GE. He focuses on his experience working as Jack Welch’s speech writer and Manager of Executive Communications for GE, having joined GE shortly before Jack [...]

Seth Godin recently posted about a problem he’s having with gmail and Apple mail, not something I can help him with but he raises an interesting point:

I have no doubt that this blog post will find the person insightful, smart and kind enough to tell me what to do.
Which leads to the point of the [...]

Richard Duszczak of Cartoon Studio has just drawn me another version of my caricature ready for use with the forthcoming update to the Top 100 Business Blogs and as a result I was looking at his website earlier when I spotted an email he’s recieved, I’ve paraphrased but essentially the gist is:

I have for some [...]

Cleaning wheelie bins is one of those business opportunities that had it was presented on Dargons’ Den I’d have expected the Dragons to mock. I’d also have written it off as a business idea that is unlikely to succeed, after all who is going to pay up to £5 per fortnight (£125 per year) to [...]

A couple of weeks ago we held a naming ceremony for our baby boy. Something we thought would be quite easy to arrange after all it’s hardly a new idea, or so we thought. It turns out that it is less common that we thought - apart from the couple who gave us the idea [...]

Far too often the small businesses and start-ups that I meet are so focused on why they can’t do what they want (usually its one of more of no money, no time, no expertise) that they forget to look at how they might be able to actually execute their business ideas.
Sure the proactive ones have [...]

There’s an increasing amount of talk about the USA entering a recession and the possibility that should it do so, it’ll drag the rest of the world with it. So it might be worth considering how recession proof your business is / will be.
It’s a sad fact that when a business fails it can often [...]

Two weeks ago I wrote a post “A Cheap Internet Business Opportunity For The Weekend“, which recieved a lot of interest, so I’d like to leave you with another cheap business opportunity to consider this weekend.
The business opportunity is a simple one, printed t-shirts. You know like the ones Rachel gets given on Friends that [...]