Every January here in MINT Business Club we run a session to create a Vision Board. I'll admit to being sceptical the first time we did it. I was unconvinced about trying to represent my dreams and aspirations by cutting and sticking pictures out of magazines and...
Hand sanitiser, produced by an award-winning County Durham based distillery, which switched production from gin to hand sanitiser at the height of the pandemic, has been acquired by the Science Museum Group for its COVID-19 Collecting Project. The hand sanitiser will...
Are we ever satisfied? Answers on a postcard... Self-employment is a wonderful choice. For me, happiness in work = working for me. Self employment means we have the chance to be free of the boss, to be responsible for ourselves and how we spend our time and finally be...
I'm sure you'll have heard someone say "cash is king". Well, the full saying goes "turnover is vanity, profit is sanity, cash is king". What this means, in a nutshell, is that it doesn't matter how much money you turn over in business, if there's no profit then...
What are the rules to running your own business? In short, there are none! MINT member Keely Pearce shares her story. For those of you who might not know me, I’m Keely and I’m a paper cutting artist. I wear all the hats at kppapercuts, which I started about four years...
Have you dreamed of getting your product on the shelves of your local stores? It can be simpler than you think, as MINT member Liza Johnson explains... As a producer and a retailer, I have seen both sides of this transition and wanted to offer my observations and...
Reflections on my Business Consultancy in a year of lockdown craziness. Oh, my goodness, what an important and very interesting thing to do - to reflect over the past locked down year. Literally, a few days before lockdown #1 in 2020, I had a fab proactive business...
Life in lockdown - is it possible to be joyous? That is quite a question isn’t it? Gosh! Have you had much joy in the last year? I bet you’ve had some disappointment, sorrow, frustration, restriction and maybe even depression. I really hope that you’ve not been...
I still can’t believe we are a year on after watching the televised briefing to the nation to stay at home. I remember breaking down in tears to my husband with shock. What did it mean? How was it going to affect us, our friends and family, our jobs, the life we knew?...
Grab a cuppa... ...and enjoy 10 minutes reading my newest blog post, 'the last year' round up! We're all living and coping (just about!) through this crazy time of a global pandemic and all of the changes it brings with it. I have taken so much from this year, it will...