Sep 29, 2011

Ideally the answer should be zero – it’s the facilities department’s job. Unfortunately, all too often in some firms it is one, or a committee of partners needs to sign off the spend. I’ve even helped one of my clients (senior partner in a practice) see that a 2 hour trip to homebase in normal working hours to get a replacement...

Sep 27, 2011

Very often professional advisors don’t act on their own advice. Don’t believe me? How many accountants do you know who get their own tax return in on the last day for filing? I have found that the clients who I have really had to nag to do a cash flow forecast for the year are normally my accounting clients… But this isn’t about bashing...

Sep 8, 2011

When I am working with my clients talking about a social media strategy. I will always ask them for the firm’s strategy and business plan. Unfortunately, at this point I often get very blank looks. Business plan? What business plan? Strategy for growth? What strategy? (or even strategy for survival!) Very often, I am finding that many firms don’t...

Aug 9, 2011

I have been absolutely horrified about the events happening in London and rapidly spreading to other cities in the UK. I hope that I never see such levels of lawlessness and criminality in my life time. Taking a step back, it’s been very interesting to see the reaction on Twitter. For the people I follow it’s been one of almost universal condemnation...

Aug 5, 2011

Do you think you could be generating more business through your networking activity? Do you know how to use both online and face-to-face networking to develop a local or national network? Is your breakfast networking club becoming a drain on your finances and time? Does your business plan rely on a steady stream of referrals? Are you generating results through...

Jul 29, 2011

In this little series on social media policy, we’ve dealt with: why your firm needs one who should write it what do you need to do after writing it You may have noticed a glaring gap. What should you actually put in your social media policy? Let me enlighten you… Firstly, any social media policy needs to tread a fine line between mitigation of risk...