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by Tim Martin on 17th Jun 2025

2025 is a year of anniversaries, 11 years of Selling Service, 25 years of music writing and 30 years with M.E. On my list of blogs to write for a while has been “business lessons from having M.E.” The last couple of...

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by Tim Martin on 21st May 2025

As my 11th business birthday has crossed over with the Eurovision Song Contest this year, I found myself remembering the Johnny Logan song from 1980, “What’s Another Year?” After re-reading my earlier birthday...

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by Tim Martin on 24th Mar 2025

I may have mentioned before that in another part of the forest I have an online CD shop, selling mainly on the Discogs platform and at record fairs. One of the things that continues to puzzle me is the confusion between price and...

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by Tim Martin on 26th Nov 2024

I originally wrote this piece back in 2017. It keeps cropping up, mostly thanks to Angela Fumpson who reminds me of it often. I thought I would dust it off and add some new thoughts which also introduces a new word…Mentor. The...

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by Tim Martin on 22nd May 2024

I’ve been looking around for stats about business lifespans in the UK. According to the FSB it seems that there are 3.1 million sole traders, out of a total of 5.6 million small businesses. After a bit more rummaging around the...

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