Entrepreneurs in Spain

A video post about Entrepreneurs in Spain at the weekend
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I have been thinking about how things have changed in my life recently and realised something that I have known intuitively all along but maybe hadn't put all of the things together into a coherent whole. Now I can't remember the exact percentage but I believe that Woody Allen once said that 90% of...
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Last week I started writing.That was a result of doing some serious thinking. I am writing a book to help people out who are struggling in the economic climate that we have. It will be an ebook and will include ten ways to bootstrap businesses to earn a little extra income. Yes you heard right,...
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Living in Spain is rather strange at times. I have said before in these pages that Spanish life is rather conformist, what one person does successfully everybody else follows in general. Successful estate agents beget copycat models, and the same can be said of academies, theme bars, delicatessens and a huge etcetera. Google is...
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Are you productive in what you do daily? Do you use your downtime in a productive way? I only ask because I wrote a blog post yesterday on my Mac as I arrived 20 minutes early for an appointment a previous appointment didn't take as long as I thought it would.
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Telefonica has been voted on my blog as the worst company in the World. Their latest idea may well be the worst they have ever had. Before telling you about it though you need to know a bit of background. Telefonica is the ex state monopoly telephone supplier in Spain. To all intents and...
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If you know somebody is travelling 130 miles to come and see one of the cars you have in your car showroom what do you do? Obviously the client, me in this case, is interested, you don't travel 130 miles for no reason do you? So come on make a list.
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I don't want this blog to come on as being a complaints litany or anything so I will get this out of the way right now, this is total stereotyping and probably not the case. (OK now I can hammer Spanish Entrepreneurs.)
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I moved to The Canary Islands ten years ago and started a small real estate business as a self employed entrepreneur. Over time, it grew first into a partnership, and then into an SL (Limited Company) with four offices and dozens of staff, before we decided to franchise all our offices out and take...
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As the title tag states "Being an entrepreneur in Spain is like being a snowboarder in Jamaica". I have been told this is so true it is unbelievable but some do exist. To that end this blog is going to have guest posts too from other entrepreneurs in Spain.
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