Perhaps a term more known within Birmingham (rumour has it) Arley Barley, was as a kid achieved by crossing your fingers and saying out loud “I have Arley Barley” this effectively meant that you were immune to anything. For instance, if playing tig/tag and you were caught, so long as you had ‘Arle...

Local business people set their alarms late at night in order to wake themselves up at unearthly hours of the morning so that they can head off to a breakfast networking group meeting. Sometimes the meeting may be local to them other times they may have an hour’s or so drive ahead of them before they can stand u...

Last night was ‘The Apprentice’ night which served up a delightful guide on how to export (or not as the case may be), all be it on a very small scale. The task was to select some products from the UK, not currently on sale in France, to see how many items they could sell by targeting their selling...

Over the past month, our sister company Need to Sort has been able to connect with an organisation that will help businesses get a better deal on their business utilities. The company is a major UK commercial player and are approved by the major energy suppliers for the provision of Gas and Electric services to S...

No doubt for many people over Christmas there came a time during watching the repeat of the 1973 Morecombe and Wise Christmas show, where the mind may have somewhat wondered to thinking about work. Thoughts going through the old grey matter to such an extent that it filled them with so much positivity that for a sp...

At the start of the week, we received an invite to attend a Find it in Wolverhampton meeting which was being held at Wolverhampton Wanderers football ground. So off we went driving along the Wolverhampton Road from our base in Cradley Heath at 6.10 am, there were hardly any cars on the road, and when we’re sa...

As the year races ahead, tomorrow see us hit the 1st June already - we haven’t even really blinked since it was Christmas and already 5 months of the year are gone, finito, done and dusted. Just look back over the first part of 2011 and ask yourself what have you achieved? Has anything really proved to be ben...