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To all my clients I wish you a prosperous new year, to all my business partners may 2010 bring even more success, to everyone I hope the new year is a successful one and you achieve more than you ever imagined.
Its a time to re-focus and set your goals and route-map particularly when there are rough seas around us!
I intend to regularly provide news and topical ideas on how your home can become the place you want it to be….

Just a very quick intro to my blog…. as its late
and its not going to be all about me but more about what I can do for you and the new topics that I think you may find of interest in both the house and the garden…
but for now I would like you if you have the time to visit my web-site and find out about how I could improve the way your house and garden relate to you, and how they could work better

contact me at my website to discuss your free consultation

well last week I was busy trying to start to develop my web-site and that’s still on-going…….. but I promised to share with all those entrepeneurs like myself and that includes those of us who are over 50 – few links that I have found helpful!!

But the good news is if you, like me, are in our Prime, then there is a whole lot out there to help us – we’re not done yet you know!!

Having taken the decision to go it alone – that’s exactly how you feel  – all alone – but don’t because you’re not! You just haven’t found them yet and there a lot of them.

There’s the government backed agencies and associated sites and I think some are just in it for the ride – you soon realise there isn’t much happening around them, I won’t name and shame – they know who they are I will just tell you those I have found more than helpful:

http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/- business link if you only wanted one site then call here and at the moment all their courses are free and there’s loads of downloads

http://www.primebusinessclub.co.uk/ – come in all those over 50 cos this is the site for you!!

http://enterprisequest.com/ – great place to find useful information – some of it you get free from Prime so go there first!!

http://www.startupcommunity.co.uk/ – last but certainly not least if anyone has a personality within any of these organisations its Kate Moss – she has, well its probably not her directly, but she has given me loads of useful tips and some wonderful sites to go on

http://www.midessexenterpriseagency.co.uk/ – you will be met by the site isn’t up and running yet – bit of a let down for a governement or probably county run site – but I’m told a very useful organisation – I’m yet to have a meaningful conversation with them No apologies for it being Essex – I’m from Lancashire so there’s no favouratism – but there must be similar organisations in all areas and I’m sure through their phone line they will be able to put you in touch with them.

So there you go…..

oh and I’m forgetting the one that I was most surprised about but the HMRC – yes the HMRC are the most helpful organisation there is

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/ – they organise courses and operate a very useful helpline and aren’t after taking every penny they can of you quite the contrary!!

I have to say I thought I would get loads of grants and I’m not saying there aren’t but not in the fields that I am going to operate in

So there you go my helping hand for what its worth to all you people who are the future, and start networking on all of the sites even Twitter!!

More from me next week………

Went on a HMRC course yesterday – I know not one of the most exciting events in my life – but the information given out to would-be entrepenuers was fantastic and of course good opportunity to network.
I know its not the popular thing to say but the government are really trying to help us in starting up ourselves especially those of us who are in our Prime. There are a whole load of courses run by Businesslink and similar organisations and at the moment they are all free. And they are all relevant and as I said before a great way to network.
I will be putting up as many links as I can for all those would-be venturers into new business, just to make it easier, but not today. Cos today Matthew I’m going to start to develop how my website should look and feel!

Well at my time of life I should know better than to start afresh….. well that’s what half of me says and sometimes its more than half of me.
But then I was always up for a challenge and I needed that after my father died and I was made redundant. I sometimes describe the feeling as running on the hamster wheel and when you fall off you don’t know any better than to get back on.
Well this time I ain’t.
All my life I have had a passion for gardening and those that know me well in my work circles will probably be saying ‘what??!!’ yes gardening big time I know all the Latin names don’t ask me how, I go to as many gardens as I can and now I’m doing a garden design course.
My new business was just going to be garden design and then someone and not just someone, someone very special, said and what about doing up homes…. and I had to agree that’s another passion and one I have for more than twenty years devoted my life to.
Well that sets the scene…. I’m going to tell you how I get on in setting up my business warts and all and it just may help some people and if it does then that’s great.
I’m at the Prime of my Life and this is my Prime Initiative…….