Work, work, work
I spent Monday and today helping LiveHebrides with their courses on online accounting, which was actually more about accounting options for new and growing businesses, in Stornoway and then Uist.
It's been great fun, but the work has been piling up behind the scenes, and here I am dealing with email and business matters at 11pm because everyone else has to carry the workload whilst I am out of the office.
I don't grudge the time in the slightest, as you need to find out what people really want as opposed to what you think they really want, and to have people challenge you on your perceptions.
I spoke about how the internet can fundamentally change the way you do business, and how there are no barriers, and how it can allow you to find customers that you didn't know existed.
And as if proof was needed, we have just secured a contract with a multi-billion pound Asian Government company all due to the service we provided to the FD in his previous employment with one of our clients. They don't care where we are, just that we are more reliable, trustworthy and professional than the global firm they were with before. Oh, and we don't have to recharge outrageous overhead office costs.
The world - my friends - is our oyster, if we can only ensure that the technology needs and the transportation costs are sorted.
It's been great fun, but the work has been piling up behind the scenes, and here I am dealing with email and business matters at 11pm because everyone else has to carry the workload whilst I am out of the office.
I don't grudge the time in the slightest, as you need to find out what people really want as opposed to what you think they really want, and to have people challenge you on your perceptions.
I spoke about how the internet can fundamentally change the way you do business, and how there are no barriers, and how it can allow you to find customers that you didn't know existed.
And as if proof was needed, we have just secured a contract with a multi-billion pound Asian Government company all due to the service we provided to the FD in his previous employment with one of our clients. They don't care where we are, just that we are more reliable, trustworthy and professional than the global firm they were with before. Oh, and we don't have to recharge outrageous overhead office costs.
The world - my friends - is our oyster, if we can only ensure that the technology needs and the transportation costs are sorted.
12 comments:
And if we are prepared to work and keep the hours that clients off-Island expect which are 24 x 7..... Hard work but good rewards... See you tomorrow x
Great to get a good news story- well done Angus. I believe the Hebrides have enormous potential, but some people (and some of them are in powerful positions) lack the vision to see it.
Fantastic news, I never realised that Ali's Batli house had government connections.
If most of the members of the council took their heads out of their backsides they may just manage to see the light. If the rest of the world is on a 24/7 timetable so must we, otherwise as so often happens we will be left behind. We will never keep up with the rest of the UK/World by closing down one day in 7, its as simple as that.
11:46 Lets not forget those who are too scared to try!
And the disaster that is Connected Communities continues to deliver dreadful internet connections,remember the partners,WIE/HIE,whatever,CNES,WIHB.!!!
A move to target Leader funding to allow exchange upgrades looks set to fail,why?????no-one had the sense to speak to BT beforehand although I feel BT are being very precious in overstating the "work"involved in obtaining quotes to upgrade exhanges.
Another disaster from our development officers,perhaps 2015 may see broadband installed here.
11.52 am Which factories and offices need to be open 24/7 on this island? Those needing to keep that timetable are able to do so without let or hindrance from anybody else. What do I care if accountants work long into the Sabbath to service contracts in Abu Dhabi (not that I'm saying they do)
If it's not the factories and offices then it must be the pubs and shops. Me? I'm not in the least bit bothered whether I see the inside of a supermarket or pub on a Sunday. Wait though I see your point, you want all these leisure facilities to be open so that you can pop out for a baguette inbetween rounds of golf and chats with Sheik Mansoor. Get a grip.
7:54am how about those hard working people who work on a Sunday morning, wanting to enjoy a round of golf or relaxing swim on a Sunday afternoon.....
7.52 FYI the Sabbath is Saturday as practiced still by Jews.
Sunday is and was the pagan day of worship. It seems at some point in the dim and distant the christians decided to stop fighting against the tide and moved their holy day to Sunday too. So by that line of reasoning the Free Kirk et al have no right to hi-jack the pagan Sunday, but should leave it as a pagan day. Which it is.
Well done 1.55am.
I am sure Angus will have had his ear bent in Uist about the non-availability of broadband in much of the island (to say nothing of Barvas, Northbay, Sollas to name but a few). Where is the MEP when you need him? her?
Leader threw out a lifebelt to all thyese communities and "due to unforeseen demand" BT could not price all the work!!!!!
I would quite like to be in a line of business where there is so much demand that I refuse to price it because there's too much. What happened to privatisation? Or have we just moved from state monopoly to private monopoly?
As somebody remarked before, is it any wonder the young don't come home? How many under 30s, nay under 50s can honestly look forward to a life without broadband? To add insult to injury, the country's prime funder of rural development, flagship of both labour and SNP administrations is SRDP. (Scottish Rural Development Programme) You're way ahead of me. Yes, its only accessible with Broadband.
ohh god.....
How did this light hearted posting end up in a bitching argument about Sunday.... Bloody Hebrideans.
Did you hear about the dyslexic agnostic insomniac?
He was up all night wandering if there really was a dog.
Maybe Angus should have said he was working 24/6 not 24/7!
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