Out with the old and in with the new
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Recruitment – don’t be in the dark Recruitment is an interesting business and across the many investments I have enjoyed in my business life definitely one of the most profitable. Reflecting on the industry I have to report there are changes afoot and the lack basic understanding of the contraction of parts of the industry and new methodologies [...]
Has salesmanship sunk so low?
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Four phone calls today: only one a recorded “we can get back money that you owe on your credit card”, the other three from call centres “ you have been selected etc..”. Two visitors at my door, one double glazing, one switching gas supplier. A prisoner with a bag of dusters. After trying to reason with them [...]
Keep your fingers crossed in the downturn – credit control wins
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An Office of Fair Trading (OFT) probe into corporate insolvencies must address the problem of ‘phoenix’ companies leaving small businesses unpaid after becoming insolvent, according to the Forum of Private Business (FPB). A phoenix company exists where the assets of one limited company facing liquidation are transferred to another business. Often, some or all of [...]
