It’s like that scene in American Psycho that all designers hark back to when they’re trying to iterate the importance…
Once upon a time I nearly paid a bloke £500 a month to tell me how to improve my sales. I worked out how many hours it would take me to earn £500 and decided that if everyone I employed spent one hour a day focussed on nothing but sales it would not only cost me less but it would deliver more. We…
I have met a lot of business owners over the years, some I’ve worked for (rarely with success), most I’ve worked with and some I have just watched with admiration from afar — or made efforts to try and work with them.
A heads up this feature is not going to be the most jolly feature I have ever written. In fact given I am celebrating 20 years of being in business it seems mad to now be writing a feature on failure but that’s the nature of the beast, with age comes experience.
Shopping for some is mundane, not helped by rampant globalization and our change from locally owned stores (usually with a character that everyone knows at the helm) to generic high street shops.
