by Mark Northall | Jul 24, 2017 | Business, Employees, Social Media
If you told me almost 9 years ago that I would be self-employed and absolutely loving what I do, I would have laughed in your face! I never imagined being my own boss, working the hours I want to work, doing what I want to do when I want to and working with whom I...
by Mark Northall | Apr 5, 2016 | Business, Networking, Social Media
So when I was employed and wasn’t feeling well I could take time off work, get a doctors note, not worry about what was going on at work whilst I was ill, and still receive an income, BUT what happens when the business is yours and you are taken ill? Who is...
by Mark Northall | Jun 7, 2014 | Business, Social Media
Remember the days not so long ago when just about the most costly thing you could do was go abroad and forget to 1. inform your mobile phone service provider or 2. leave roaming on when you switch your phone on again at the airport? Last week I went to Prague, a...
by Mark Northall | May 1, 2014 | Business, Networking, Personal
When I left the corporate world in 2010 I was probably ill prepared to dash into the uncertain world of self-employment – indeed I often wonder if I would have made the same decision had I been blessed with the benefit of hindsight! As someone much wiser than me once...
by Mark Northall | Feb 13, 2013 | Business, Networking, Personal
It was October 2010 when a bolt from the blue hit my desk in the form of the old brown envelope – I don’t remember the exact wording but it went along the lines of ‘due to the current economic climate we will have to make staff cuts’ I was in a redundancy pool of ONE...