I wanted to wish all of my lovely friends and followers a very Happy Christmas: I hope you use it well to relax with family and friends and recharge your batteries.
I'm not sure why but I'm very excited about 2014; I think it's going to be year when we see real growth in our economy after some pretty dire and dismal years since the Crash in 2008. Thank goodness; we can all start to breathe a little now.
Elizabeth Assaf was visiting the Britsh Museum the other day where she attended a SME Summit hosted by The Times newspaper and Santander, the first summit of its kind which supports growing SMEs.
In her article for the the Huffington Post a few days ago she spoke of Nick Wheeler, from Charles Tyrwhitt Shirts, who gave a very positive talk and urged businesses to forge ahead despite set-backs. He ought to know; he lost £70,000 in his first year of business and went bust twice. Despite this is now runs an incredibly successful business.
Shaa Wasmund, founder of Smarta, believes that 2014 will see the rise and rise of VISUAL social media on platforms such as YouTube. Personally I'm also thinking of Vimeo and those little Vine video clips I talked about a few months back in a blog post.
What was even more encouraging was that James Caan talked about 2014 as "a perfect opportunity to invest and grow".
Although Sir Richard Branson wasn't in attendance at the Summit, he has nevertheless spoken of 2014 as being the "year of the entrepreneur" in a recent blog post on LinkedIn
Who am I to argue with the likes of Branson & Caan?
On that note I want to wish you all a very Happy Christmas and a fabulous start to the New Year.
We'll be back here on 2nd January 2014.
See you then!
Nicky
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