starting and running your own business

Everyone wants to work for themselves and own their own business. When I first suggested this category to Ciao I asked for Starting and running your own business - How to run your own Hotel / Bed and Breakfast. Instead they let me have starting and running your own business only. So here we go With running your own hotel / bed & breakfast there are no sure and steadfast rules. We all have to learn and often the hard way Who am I to tell anyone how to do it? Well, we have run our own Hotel / Bed & breakfast for the past four years in Blackpool. As many of you already will know there are plenty ... more

Apparently Ciao tell me I must write a review or else, so at this ungodly hour, After a lovely Thai meal of steamed mussels and some king of spicy seafood dish, I find myself strangely drawn to you. Hello Ciao readers, remember me? I am Angus whom you may remember from such movies as Creative Mind and Simon Cowell. Wait, they weren't movies were they, they were user names! Why ya bugga man, can I say bugga? Probably not. 2 years ago, my good lady and I started a business. Twas nought but a small shop turning over some 35K OTE and did not even have a toilet. We sold soap and I dressed in tights ... more

Ask yourself this question: If money was no problem, would I have the same house, have the same car, have a loan or a mortgage? The answer would definitely be a big NO. How many of us have dreamed of taking a long vacation in an exotic country, or driving the car of your dreams, or spending money on gifts and clothes or donating great amounts in charity? Instead , we have to wake up early in the morning with the annoying sound of an alarm clock (pleading to sleep some more!), rush to have a breakfast, hop in our car and try to make it through the hell of morning traffic. Then we have to work ... more