Today i had the stuffing knocked out of me A couple of months ago someone we used to work with approached us about coming to work for us. It coincidiced well with where were are as a company. We have just enough customers to keep us busy but if we wanted to grow (of course!)
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SMB Consulting Best Practices
I wasn’t going to post about this until i’d finished reading but i’m enjoying it so much i couldn’t wait SMB Consulting Best Practices Harry Brelsford Well worth picking up. I placed the order and it actually arrived from the US before a book i’d ordered from Amazon UK on the same day The
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SBSC Exam
I’ve just got back after taking the 070-282 exam so we can qualify as Small Business Specialists…. and i passed! 🙂 It wasn’t quite the exam i was expecting but i passed so thats the important thing Hopefully it wont be too long before it registers against my Live ID so we can get signed up
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There Goes The Weekend
We’re moving to bigger premises and we get started tomorrow morning and keep going till we’re done. Guess what i have planned for my weekend 🙁 I’m actually really excited as it’s a milestone for all the hard work we have put in over the last two years and we’re seeing the payback in the
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Knowledge versus Ability
I was looking down the “recent posts” bit on my wordpress dash board when i came across this post Programming Knowledge versus Programming Ability « Imran On Tech I generally agree with the post and it has a good footballing analogy too!As we’re looking for new staff at the moment it definitely got me thinking.
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Just a bit of closure
I posted a week or so ago after my frustration with some work we were quoting for. I got some good comments from Nick including a follow up post here which gave me the sort of feedback i was looking for. Nick thought that maybe we were coming in a bit high while the competition were
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Am i losing business for doing a proper job?
I’m putting my neck on the block a little with this but wanted to ask the opinion of others We’ve recently quoted to do a new server installation We have both quoted for the same hardware and software (HP Proliant Server, SBS Premium) but we have been told we’re being beaten on the amount of days
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How does anyone do business?
Good post today from Susanne about problems with distributors. This is something I have had to learn lots about over the last couple of years as I’ve become more involved on the business side. It’s very frustrating when your account manager isn’t tuned into your needs. An example of bad management happened recently. I’m not
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Putting the cat amongst the pigeons
I wasn’t going to comment on this but i’ve changed my mind Susanne blogged a while back asking about Microsoft’s strategy for Office & Vista in the small business marketplace and why they should make the move.(This was also followed up by a post by Vijay) At the time i agreed with many of her
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Good for business?
Over the last few weeks i’d been to meetings with a company that i had dealings with at my previous company. Recently they have been increasingly frustrated and unhappy with the service they have been receiving and since i know some of the staff there personally they got in touch with me and asked if we