I'm delighted to say that feedback on my blog has been largely positive, though there have been a couple of criticisms which I feelI should address and explain.
Firstly, a few people have pointed out that, for someone teaching people how to set up in business I seem to be making a lot of mistakes in mine. This is technically true, but most of my mistakes are by way of deliberate testing, and treading in areas which I know are outside my general area of expertise; probably akin to a chef trying a new recipe - he may get it wrong a couple of times, but that doesn't make him a bad chef does it? Also, I am quite deliberately reporting mistakes partly to help others avoid them and partly to reassure those who see mistakes as a form of failure.
The second criticism is that not much appears to be happening. Unfortunately there isn't much I can do about this; due to the summer lull, it seemed sensible not to run courses in school holidays which, in turn meant that I couldn't start before the holidays as each course runs for 6 weeks.
Every business is different - if you are selling low value items it is possible to produce revenues more or less from day one, whereas if you are developing a product a revenue stream might be months or even tyears away, In my case income cannot take plavce until a course date (even if I take deposits, which will not be recognised until the course commences).
I hope that helps - things should start to happen soon!
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