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UK General Election: An Entrepreneur Reacts

While I certainly have my own opinions on politics, I rarely share them. I believe I’m the PM of my life.

You see, as entrepreneurs and go-getters, we are fortunate to always find opportunities regardless of the circumstances we are faced with…

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Navigating Tough Economic Times - What You Should Be Doing

It's an absolute fact that more businesses are struggling than ever before.

Running a business is like the seasons of the year. If you’ve watched Game of Thrones, you’ll know they often speak about the looming winter: “WINTER IS COMING!”

Well, it's here.

But there's no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing. Here’s how you can insulate yourself - and not just survive, but thrive…

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The Businessman Politician: 9 things I’d do if I were Prime Minister

I were in charge of the UK economy, and I was tasked with growing it while helping small businesses, this would be my election manifesto…

In this blog, I’ll break down all the points I think would seriously help entrepreneurs and business owners, while growing the UK economy.

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James Sinclair’s Business Philosophy Part 3: How to become an Investor-Preneur

What is it the top entrepreneurs and business owners are doing to achieve successful growth?

They’re thinking to themselves: “If I’m going to put some time, effort, money and energy into an entrepreneurial idea, can I scale this business?”

You need to think like an Investor-Preneur. Here’s how you can do just that, by scaling your business up.

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Business isn’t as fun as it used to be - how to fix it

Do you sometimes feel like the bad guy? I do. But the responsibility of keeping everything going means to be kind long term, you have to be strict short term.

Business is just not as fun as it used to be. Here’s how to fix it...

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Hungry audiences - My simple secret for success

Cast your mind back to April 2020: if you were in the business of selling toilet roll and pasta, you were making the easiest money you'll ever make.

I know this because, for a few months, I was selling those rare commodities.

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How to hire great people – and keep your dream team

I’m often asked, when I’m running hotels, dinosaur parks, ice cream factories, day nurseries: “how do you do it?”

The answer is: I don’t.

If you want to be a serious entrepreneur and you want to build a commercially profitable enterprise, you must build a strong team around you.

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Thinking bigger in business - how China does it

Leaving politics aside, you simply can’t help but marvel at how China has become the world’s 2nd largest economy in just 40 short years.

How do they do it? They think bigger.

I feel many entrepreneurs are often scared to venture outside their comfort zones. Fear holds them back.

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Six businesses that always FAIL – why you should avoid them

I’m going to tell you exactly the worst business sectors that you should invest money in, start or grow in. And I’m doing this from a position of experience.

I’ve traded businesses myself, employed people, and I’ve made some made some mistakes. I’ve made some big wins, too.

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Success: Is it Worth it?

I was asked recently “is success worth it?” and while I would usually answer “yes“ straight away, this was different.

After a tough few weeks on the business owner rollercoaster, I paused before I answered. Another “yes”.

Here’s why.

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Vital lessons to learn if you’re importing from China

Nearly everything we consume in the world has China in the supply chain at some point – from your car to your iPhone, or your clothes.

This is a full breakdown of the process I go through to import products from the far east and sell them in the UK and European market.

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5x your profits with this simple strategy

Most business owners are incredibly dissatisfied with how much cash they can pull out of their business.

They might be turning millions of pounds, but can’t put any of it into their personal bank account.

Building a business organically takes so much time.

But there is another way to extract profits from your business much quicker. Here’s how...

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7 reasons Costco's Business Model is Perfect

The motto that you need to live by is success leaves clues!

So in this article I'm diving into the super successful empire that is Costco.

For context, Disney does around $80b in revenue, Costco does $250b... so many people are shocked here the size of this business, but when you find out the tactics behind their business model, it starts to make more sense.

If I could own any business in the world, it would Costco.

Let’s find out why.

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8 best low employee business ideas

These are there best business ideas for LOW EMPLOYEE businesses.

This is not the gig economy like a working plumber or electrician where you're swapping time for money, these are business ideas that mean we are building a commercially profitable enterprise that works without you in it.

At the moment I employ over 1200 people across many different types of businesses. One of my companies does £10,000,000 in revenue and spends £5,500,000 on labour whilst another one of my companies does £3,000,000 in revenue but only spends £200k on labour... the latter is the type of business I want to talk about today.

So what are these low employee business ideas?

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