I have just launched the Finding Clients UK site. Please check it out here: http://www.findingclients.co.uk

You will find articles about finding clients using technology, and if you join the readership list you will get a copy of the results of our recent survey that shows that almost 80% of web sites are commercially inadequate. (They're missing a few vital components that their owners do not yet know about!)

It's been months of hard labour analysing more than 300,000 individual web sites to try and see how much wastage there really is.  In many respects it confirmed our Finding Clients methodology, so it wasn't all bad.

The site also highlights the Finding Clients Workshops we're launching in January. (Book early and save 30%!)

If you want to know exactly what your clients are thinking, why not ask them?

At the beginning of this year I decided I needed a cartoonist to add pep to Petes Weekly. Posted the question to the forum 9am Monday. By 11am that same day I had enough responses to review the work of 40 cartoonists

Keeping an aircraft in the air is all about information. And it is no different with keeping a business flying.In fact, about the only thing different about business -- to use the same aeronautical metaphor

It has been an extremely interesting week, conducting approximately 20 online consultations with people going out of business.

One of the joys of writing about business issues is that folk assume that I actually know something about the subject, and constantly ask advice with regard to their ideas.

Challenges = Opportunities Greener pastures in exporting products, services & knowledge. Internet is a fast, inexpensive research tool. You will be live & online within 10 minutes - if you want to be.

Few of us share the passion I have for the sleek machine that I carry with me wherever I go ñ my very own Personal computer. I am in love with her ñ not her body, but her mind.

Ford Motor Company sold Hertz yesterday day for US$5.6billion [about R35.3billion rand]. Hertz, founded in 1918, is the world's biggest general-use car rental firm, with 7,400 offices in more than 150 countries. Last year Hertz earned about US$500million income.

We're all so price conscious, but we're doing ourselves an immense disservice if we don't delve behind the numbers a little. A few simple instances will illustrate.