Newsletter March 2009 - QED Consulting

This Month...

Welcome to the March edition of the E bulletin. As we begin to enjoy the longer days we hope to bring extra light to your business with…

When it Goes Wrong - Getting Paid (Part 2) by Jeremy Thorn
The Magic of Enterprise – celebrating the UK entrepreneurial flare
The outcome of our Evening with Martin Temple

GETTING PAID! Part 2
When it goes wrong

Jeremy Thorn offers some further tips on minimising slow and bad debtors.

In Part 1 of this article last month, we stressed the importance of starting off on the right foot by making sure all your sales contracts include copper-bottomed contractual agreements that ensure you will be paid as agreed.

If you run a smaller business in particular, you may well feel that you have a special challenge to face when collecting debts. By definition, your key customers will usually be much larger companies, and some of these can often be amongst the slowest payers.

The Magic of Enterprise

SFEDI (Small Firms Enterprise Development Initiative) are bringing a little bit of magic to the world of enterprise with their annual awards. Planned for 2009, SFEDI present the ‘Magic of Enterprise Awards.’

Our Evening with Martin Temple - Update

Our evening with Martin Temple, Director General of the Engineering Employers Federation was fascinating. Martin talked about the relationship between business and politics and how organizations can effectively make their case to government.

He took us through all the key issues regarding lobbying and the right way to approach constituency MPs, Ministers, senior Civil servants and the media. In the question and answer session at the end he also revealed some interesting insights into the idiosyncrasies of current and past Ministers and Prime Ministers.

We would to express our sincere thanks to Martin for his time, knowledge and good humour and to Karen Trem and the Doncaster Business School for jointly hosting the event and providing the excellent venue. We hope to see you at our 2010 event – details to follow!

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GETTING PAID! Part 2 When it goes wrong

The Magic of Enterprise

Our Evening with Martin Temple - Update

GETTING PAID! Part 2
When it goes wrong