Seminar and BERR

Good session at the seminar this week and I believe that some of you gave those nice people from BERR a tough time. Thanks for the involvement they seem to be genuine about finding out about small businesses but no idea what happens next.

On the business front a couple more Hub companies reporting that business is holding up well and another who has seen business slide at the end of last year but now holding level and feeling a little more confident.

Also an interesting discussion about keeping staff in the loop and one important point if you are doing most of the new business for your company, don't forget to let them know how it's going. You may have a positive feeling after a pitch but they may just have seen all the hard work and not know how it went. Generally the feeling is that you should be monitoring the pipeline and be transparent about it.

Still finding HMRC helpful with tax re-scheduling but they are asking for a business case to back it up so expect a few more questions but still a useful way out of a cashflow hole and yesterday a bank said to a client "we are going to help you through this"!