The Future for UK Small Business
In the UK small business is the mainstay of the economy -- Napoleon even dismissed our readiness for war by saying, “L'Angleterre est une nation de boutiquiers” -- “England is a nation of shopkeepers”.
He meant it as an insult, but I think it is really something for us to be proud of. America is rightly proud of its independent and business-like reputation, but I think in the UK small business gets too little recognition.
Let’s face it: anyone can work in a “job”. Even the toughest jobs are not as demanding as running your own business. On the other side of the coin, of course, no job is as rewarding, either, neither in terms of personal satisfaction nor the potential for creating wealth and financial freedom for oneself and one’s family.
The trouble is, in the UK small business seems to be the target for victimisation by the tax authorities, petty bureaucrats from both national and regional government, and, if truth be told, from the jealous individuals who covet your success, ambition, and drive, but secretly dislike themselves because they know they don’t have it.
It’s often said you can be rich and successful or you can be popular. Unfortunately, there is a lot of truth in this. In the UK small business owners come in for a lot of sniping from the man (and woman) in the street.
And I must warn you, as you implement the marketing strategies I share with you and become more and more successful, that can only increase -- especially as you’ll come in for an extra helping of it from your competitors in your own industry, too.
Rather than seek to discover what you have done differently from them and working out ways they, too, can be successful, they moan and whine and criticize you in more ways that you’d believe.
But my guess is... if it means you’re quietly successful, serving your clients and customers to the best of your ability, astonishing them with your dedication and commitment to excellence, and increasing your profits by 50% to 250%... then... you’ll be happy to pay the “price” of success!
So, take a look around the rest of this site, and get into some of the detailed business success strategies you can put to work for you right now and have them making money for you by tomorrow!
To your business success!
Chris Cardell
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