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Loud Music Makes you Drive Faster is Mark's first collection of poetry, an anthology of his spoken word performances. Surreal, playful and sometimes tender, these poems sit in the tradition of spoken word pioneered by Roger McGough, John Cooper Clarke and Hollie McNish. Robot train inspectors, static caravans and museum statues all get a voice, as well as Lionel Richie songs that didn't chart, a poem written backwards and the historical revelation that at Waterloo, Napoleon did not surrender. Along the way, there are musings on ageing, travelling, fatherhood, falling in love and falling out of love.
Some people only ever sell their business once, usually when they are looking to retire. Others will find themselves selling their businesses a number of times during their careers as they move from one project to the next. But both types of people have one thing in common: they need to get the best deal possible out of the sale.This practical, commonsense book will help to secure the best result. Now updated and revised, it is in its 2nd updated edition. It offers first-hand advice on the whole sale process from deciding why and when to sell through getting the best sale to completing the deal. Charts and examples offer advice on essential legal, financial and strategic issues for all types of enterprises, however big or small your business.
Gertrude Harrington was something of a celebrity. In her 100th year, and sadly diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour, she suddenly became a much sought-after Private Detective, seconded to New Scotland Yard. She had always wanted to join the police force and kept many cuttings and articles about unsolved murders throughout her long lifetime. Playing the amateur sleuth, she believed she had solved the unsolvable. It turns out she was right. Her doctors suggested it was the tumour pressing on uncharted sections of her brain that was granting her these deductive powers. New Scotland Yard were just happy to tick off 20 unsolved cases that had eluded a conclusion. These 20 cases, contained in this anthology, may have made Sherlock Holmes think twice before setting out to solve them. But then, Sherlock Holmes wasn't a multi-tasking woman!
'An Agatha Christie-style whodunnit'. 'A gory horror story'. 'A meditation on madness'. 'A twistedly brilliant emotional rollercoaster'.
This book takes you on a programme of five phases that will help you achieve those objectives of becomming the owner of a successful business.
Twelve-ish. Shade in the Murillo gardens, as satisfying as lemonade. In the heat, just for a moment, Miguel stood in front of me. The old Miguel, not the one we've got now. The fuzzy image held its hand out and led me to the old Arab wall. When we were first married, we tried to climb it in the middle of the night. A celebration. 'This wall's been here hundreds of years,' Miguel said. 'If we can conquer that, we can conquer anything.' I believed him. I open my eyes and he's gone. In these slippery stories the truth and the possible weave as unexpected lives, complicated minds and exotic spaces are sketched in with nimble words and quick wit. Ghosts torment from the past; future selves write ...
Why should you be your customers’ banker? Why would you want to give your defaulting customers this sort of unsecured loan? People say 'Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity, but cash is king’. The difference is, we actually mean it. It’s not enough just to make sales, even profitable ones, if these do not then turn into cash. You need to ensure your customers pay on time and this business guide lays out a ten step approach to helping ensure this happens.
This book undertakes a critical examination of commercial rights to sports mega-events (focusing on sponsorship), the exclusivity of such rights and the legal implications of the modern mega-event sponsorship model. It examines ambush marketing of events and the law’s treatment of ambushing (specifically in the form of sui generis event legislation) in a review of 10 major jurisdictions selected on the basis of the importance of the events they are to host in the near future or have hosted recently, and the relevant domestic legislation. It critically examines the legitimacy of such commercial rights protection by means of the use of laws in the context of accepted principles of intellectu...
If you’re an entrepreneur, or you’re just thinking of starting a business, start with this smart, practical guide to small business success. It shows you how to maintain healthy growth and profits—no matter what kind of business you own—and helps you get the most out of your limited resources. Grow your business and get on the fast track to success.
For a manager a business plan is one of the most important documents they will have to produce, whether just starting out in business, or already trading. This book aims to show how to produce a well thought out and carefully structured plan which could be crucial to the survival and long-term success of the enterprise. Poor planning has been identified as the major cause of business failure - a third of all new businesses fail in their first year, and of the rest 95 per cent will not make it beyond five years. This book aims to help ensure that businesses get off to the right start. CONTENTS: Writing a business plan - your business idea - the market - your marketing plan - your operational plan - your sales forecast - your financial analysis - your appendices - presenting your plan - running the business to plan ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Illustrations:Glossary, index About the author Matthew Record is a business consultant specializing in the preparation of business plans for a wide variety of clients.