A hotel restaurant meal with an uncomfortable difference… The whole strange episode began when Dick and I pulled into the dusty hotel car park one hot September afternoon and noticed that ours was the only car there. We were on a business trip to that part of France’s Bordeaux wine…

What goes on behind the vacation brochure. Picture this — it’s a hot summer’s day in a small town in France. On the terraces outside cafes and restaurants people are enjoying a leisurely lunch. Apart from the diners, the streets are deserted. I’d love to be one of them —…

Don’t underestimate how important it is to have the right idea. So, you want to be your own boss. You’re thinking of starting a side hustle or small business. How can you come up with a good business idea? Well, here are a few suggestions: Don’t do something just because you ‘like’ it I like drawing cartoons but…

The pros and cons of harking back to the good old times. What does the word ’nostalgia’ mean to you? If you are the Cambridge Dictionary, nostalgia is a ‘feeling of pleasure and also slight sadness when you think about things that happened in the past’. The dictionary definition makes…

Techniques to help you come up with creative ideas for your business. What are some of the ways you use to help you come up with ideas? Have you ever used any of these? Funny ideas Sometimes thinking up a silly or funny idea may just trigger one which is actually sensible…

Sure, it’s smart but it does not give me the same buzz that I get from actually creating something myself. I’ve been playing with AI for a while and I have to admit that some of the stuff you can do with it is clever. …

Even solopreneurs and side hustlers need a business plan. After all, big enterprises have business plans so why shouldn’t you? The difference is a solopreneur does not need a massive multipage document with appendices. In fact, you don’t even need to write it down (though that may help you). …

So, you have an idea for a side hustle and you can’t wait to go ahead and make it happen. But before you do, pause for a moment and read this article. I was like you. I had what I thought was a great side hustle idea. Nothing was going…

‘Advertising is an invasion of personal privacy’. So said the famous boss of an advertising agency. He went on to say: The first thing we ought to demand from advertising or indeed from any message directed toward us is that it get our permission before speaking That it not collar…