Here is a short list of a few of the business sayings (or whatever you want to call them ‘rules’, ‘quotes’, ‘mottos’ etc) which I have written down in my main work folder I use every day. I find they help remind me constantly what rules to follow and where it may lead me.

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With regards to web design, in the past I thought about whether it was best to:

• Method 1: Record all plans and ideas, and then do lots of updates all at once. Or;
• Method 2: Each time I get an idea or find important info on web design issues make the changes straight away

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Social media is now a big part of the web, and thankfully ecommerce websites can take advantage of it. Social networking is a much more popular activity then social bookmarking services but all are still worth utilising.

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We currently seem to be spoilt with beautiful weather (in the UK). The only problem is it is massively tempting to not do any work and sit in the garden/pub and relax. Being starved of great weather the urge is often incredibly strong!

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Often in business, and life, it is good to quit and let things go.

I quite like it when people say “winners never quit”, and I always reply with “yes they do!”. But it is when that matters, they know the right time and they are able to let go.

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A survey commissioned by Click&Buy (provide online payment solutions) has turned up some interesting stats about shoppers.

Here are some interesting stats to emerge from the survey:

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Here is a brilliant report I stumbled across last week. It is titled Nothing But Net – 2009 Internet Investment Guide, it is by JPMorgan. Regardless of how you currently make money online I think it is very important to keep yourself alert as to where the internet market as a whole is moving.

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There is no worse feeling then ‘What was that idea?’. I remember when I was at school, I used to daydream my way through most lessons. I think the daydreaming has done me a lot of good, had I paid more attention no doubt I would have done better in exams, but I don’t care, the daydreams helped feed my business desire and ‘idea & creation ability’ (that sounds good!).

However, the one big thing that I regret is I never wrote any of my ideas down, nothing, not a sausage.

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I’ve posted a couple of times on this blog about why now is a good time to invest. I personally am reinvesting most of my profits until we are out of the recession, the idea being I will be in a good position when the economy picks up. A strategy I highly recommend if you have the money right now.

Daily I read business forums, newspapers etc and generally try to keep track of financials that affect me. But one that completely bypassed me was the AIA, or Annual Investment Allowance.

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