The very bestest thing about being an entrepreneur?  Having no two days the same………and today certainly was one of those!  I went to Parliament with 50 other business owners from Norfolk – all with a BuyLocal agenda.  We were there to meet a selection of the Norfolk MP’s, to speak to them and to get [...]

I was invited last Thursday to be a ‘dragon’ at Brundall Primary School.  I joined 6 other ‘dragons’ to put the budding entrepreneurs of Year 6 through their paces. We heard 7 pitches in total – ranging from T-Shirts to fitness videos.  And if truth be told – they were just amazing!  It was hard [...]

Just back from the 2012 NAFDMA Conference [NAFDMA = North American Farmers Direct Marketing Association].  I was there on a study tour arranged by Taste of Anglia/via Landskills East.  As I wrote in  a previous blog, it was an unbelievable opportunity for a small business such as mine to see what the Farm Shop market [...]

I did my first ever Breakfast Meeting presentation just before Christmas – entitled ‘The Mother of All Decisions – lessons from Big Business that I’ve taken into Small Business’!  I was speaking at the Very Early Lunch Club run by MENTA.  The Lunch Club is actually SO early that it takes place from 7.30 – [...]