I really haven’t had a long break during the summer and really that suits me better because getting started again is really difficult. Spain is showing that at the moment. Everyone came back to work yesterday, apart from some bank managers who will not be back until next Monday, and all I hear from people is that starting up again is so difficult.
I really haven’t had a long break during the summer and really that suits me better because getting started again is really difficult. Spain is showing that at the moment. Everyone came back to work yesterday, apart from some bank managers who will not be back until next Monday, and all I hear from people is that starting up again is so difficult.
My daughter is getting older and flying the nest this week, or rather driving away from the nest and it is me doing the driving, on her way to University in the UK. So a road trip is in order just for her and me, all the way through Spain, over the Pyrenees into France, through Bordeaux an up the west side of France and Paris because it is a bit more interesting than the motorway straight from Barcelona to Paris and then over the channel or possibly under the channel by the Chunnel.
What should I write about tonight for Entrepreneur Solo. Oh yes, Spanish banks!
The BBVA!! and I have deleted the expletive between “The” and “BBVA” there
I was on holiday last week and discovered that I had used my credit card to the tune of 221 Euros. Now this was a credit card that I don’t have so I thought I would ask my useless bank to give me a printout. They did and I looked and found out that apparently at some stage during July I was in the Carribbean spending my cash.
This blog was very quiet last week as I went on holiday with the family. Asturias was our destination in the north of Spain where we were looking for a bit of rain and a lot of food. Just a quick post to say we are back and to show you a few Asturian “delicacies”.
The Spanish are great negotiators… if you think that taking a stubborn position and entrenching yourself is a great negotiating tactic. They have a fixed position and stick to it and never ever under any circumstances negotiate… unless they have to. This is strange in a culture where bartering and haggling were the norm for centuries.
I don’t like to leave things unfinished. Do you? Therefore when I suggested to myself that it might be a good idea to produce a lot of videos very quickly it seemed like an interesting challenge. However I know myself intimately after so many years in my company and I knew if I didn’t put a huge hole in the project very quickly and get the whole World as accountability partners making sure I followed through on the project that it might fizzle out a bit.
I have had one of those mornings where you finish up with the blood pressure through the roof and teeth ground down through so much gnashing of them throughout the morning.
I have been developing a lot of websites recently and it is actually embarrassingly easy to rank websites for certain keywords in Spain. With a little thought and a small amount of backlinking you can be on the first page of Google.es within a few hours at times. Why is this though? Why doesn’t Spain get websites?
As you will know if you have been following the blog I am co-writing a book at the moment. Tentatively called “The Bootstrapping Book – How to start up a business from nothing” (Catchy title I know) it comprises ten chapters with various ideas for getting started in your own business without having to buy stock, rent a place to conduct your business or, in essence, put money down.
I don’t know whether it is a birthday or a milestone but the next post I put up on Houses For Sale In Spain will be the 500th post on the site. To celebrate I am going to eat a cake! However for my clients it will mean a huge difference because there is going to be an announcement that will surprise and delight in equal measure.
The level of influence one has to somebody close is in direct and inverse proportion to the closeness of that relationship.
Walking around Valencia yesterday I thought I would take a few photos of offline businesses that have set up in Valencia recently.
I’m back. It’s been a while, and despite all good intentions to write a post every Sunday, the last month or so has been a mess of scheduling issues.
The World Bank has come out with a rather shocking picture of what it is like trying to operate a business in Spain. As explained in the video below, Spain ranks 62nd in the World for ease of conducting business, that is just behind World powerhouse economies like Mongolia and Tonga.
I am not going to coat this with any sugar. If you don’t have a mailing list you don’t have a business. If you have a business but haven’t thought of creating a mailing list then you have seriously missed the biggest trick. Today’s post is all about a real world example of creating a mailing list and what it can do for you. In the internet marketing world you are told that the money is in the list. In the real estate world it is imperative that the list is maintained and fed regularly with solid advice. So let’s go back to basics.
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