My first "real" job was in food and beverage. I worked in fairly expensive restaurants at a major European tourism destination for a number of years. One of the things that I learnt while there was that if you wanted to effectively sell food or wine you had to actually like it yourself. Sure, some people can probably "fake it", but if you genuinely like eating that steak or … [Read more...] about Eating Your Own Dog Food
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Holding An “All Hands” Company Meeting
One of the things that we needed to address for a long time, as I've mentioned previously, was our internal communications. The more we've worked on this over the last couple of months the more I've come to realise how important it really is. If people internally don't know what's going on and what should be prioritised, it's very hard for them to really perform their jobs, … [Read more...] about Holding An “All Hands” Company Meeting
Staff Newsletter Alive And Kicking
One of the issues I spoke about in an earlier post was internal communication. It's something we've been discussing this a lot internally and so we've started taking tangible actions. I suspect, like many other things, that we'll iterate quite a bit over the coming weeks and months. The key thing is that we are taking action and working on improving things. So without … [Read more...] about Staff Newsletter Alive And Kicking
Improving Internal Communications
Like a lot of small businesses we started out small. And by small, I mean really small. My business partner and I both worked full-time for other companies and worked on our new venture in our spare time. Eventually we both went full-time and over time we hired people and moved into an office. When you only have a couple of staff communication internally isn't really an … [Read more...] about Improving Internal Communications