ICT business support for Wales, and all that jazz
I’ve just got back from a 2-day Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) E-business consultants’ briefing. I’m now happily up-to-date on the consulting products that we are going to use to help businesses, from an ICT perspective (Information & Communication Technology) throughout the glorious country of Wales.
Apart from meeting some really hot (technically) consultants, some clued-up (and friendly) WAG staff, and having a few beers (at our expense, rather than the tax payer), I’m stoked and ready to move from my role as a consultant and delivering agency, to an objective E-business consultant.
My first impressions are that the E-business WAG team headed by Michael Groves, have really got their onions together. It’s out with all the multiple confusing funding brands inside the Welsh Assembly and they’ve bought in 3 shapes of ICT product that will help business in Wales, in a Flexible Support for Business (FS4B) package:
Ask yourself this: How would your business be doing without some of the baggage that you are hauling along from day to day? If you could dump some of those crazy monthly outgoings, or ditch that real pain in the ass client, or do work a different way from the because-we’ve-always-done-it-like-that way?
In this article, we look at how you can make lovely revenue streams from putting clients and colleagues together.
The simplest way to get new business leads in an economic slowdown is to offer your clients, colleagues, friends and whores a 20% commission for any leads that convert into a sale. It’s that simple. New business for you and money for them; the perfect relationship.
I want to share with you something that I’ve realised recently, that allowed me to make my family home mortgage payment, that allowed me to pay my tax bill and ultimately enabled by business to continue and to not fail. It’s a pretty simple business lesson, ask for more money when a project over runs. If you don’t ask, you don’t get.
You don’t want to end up a consequence of customers drying up, suppliers closing down and dropping you in it, or major economic sea change crashing your fledgling business into YARF (Yet Another Recession Failure)…
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