Lord Alan Sugar

Yesterday Angela attended a Business Link event at Ashton Gate Football stadium in Bristol, where Lord Alan Sugar spent an afternoon answering business related questions, to an audience of around 250 people.

Some of the interesting questions were ‘when do I know this time is right to expand?’ to which Lord Sugar replied ‘you just know, its an instinctive feeling’ to ‘how do I get my work-life balance sorted out’ – to which Angela was thinking ‘you need to call on am : pm : pa, and let us help you organise you!’

Are you open for business?

How to contact us

With the increase in website traffic coming from mobile devices, have you checked whether or not your customers can easily find out how to contact you?  Is your phone number and email address visible on your home page or do you rely on visitors finding the ‘contact us’ tab, scrolling up, down, left, right, to find your phone number?  If they have to click more than twice and hang around for complex page load times, can you expect them to stay around?  Look at what your competitors are doing, and are you doing this as well, or better.

Remember, we are here to help you – save time and money!

To do or don’t want to do?

Look out for Angela and Sibylle delivering a seminar on the way in which in small businesses all have to do a great many different tasks, ranging from the day job, to whatever it may be, through to arranging a meeting or doing the accounts.

am : pm : pa looks at how we all tend to do things according to how much we feel like doing them, rather than how important they are. The result is that ‘to do’ lists get longer and in trays get fuller. This is NOTHING to be ashamed of, it’s just the way we are. This is where we come in: we do the important things in life, leaving you free to do your job and other things you want to do, while keeping the business secure.  If you would like to come along, do let us know.

Getting organised for Christmas

Christmas Tree in Prague

Christmas cards are a great communication tool and are an ideal way to stay in touch with your customers, and allow you to create a happy lasting impression whilst reminding them that you are still there. Let us know if you would like us to source your charity Christmas cards this year and help once again save you time and money.

Don’t forget the last posting dates for Christmas this year are:-

• Standard Parcels and mail order: Tuesday 15 December 09
• Second Class: Friday 18 December 09
• First Class: Monday 21 December 09

Joined In

Finally I have Joined In to Linked In.  I had to take some time out to do it, but I have finally embraced the social networking set.  If you would like to link into me, please do send me an invitation and I am gradually adding in all my PSL contacts to LinkedIn, so watch this space!

http://www.linkedin.com/in/angelamacausland

Christmas Shopping

Christmas Candle

Let us organise you for Christmas, from buying, writing and sending your Christmas cards to sourcing presents for loved ones or arranging a special treat for your staff.  As ever we can help save you time and money.

Don’t leave it until the last minute – fail to plan and you plan to fail!

Use our buying power!

As we are a central point of contact for many businesses, we have the buying power of many larger organisations and have credit accounts with many suppliers, so we can place orders quickly and cost effectively.  Take advantage of the discounts we have negotiated and special rates.  Hotels, stationery, cards, printing, cleaners etc etc – Let us organise you!

Greetings Cards

Christmas Berry

We now stock and sell a range of greetings cards, gift wrap and accessories and always have a good range of cards available so if you are ever stuck and need a card sent quickly – ask us. 

Want us to remember important dates? – pre-select your cards, sign them, tell us the date and we’ll send them for you. 

Why not let us write and send your Christmas cards too – saving you even more precious time!

Newsletter

news summer 09

To launch our new and improved website our preferred suppliers list and the update to our services list we published our first newsletter.

If you would like a full sized copy (either as a .pdf or hard copy) do let us know!

Photoshoot

Angela and Sibylle had the ‘paparazzi experience’ this week when they had their own publicity photo shoot.  The idea was to get some fresh photos of us both together in and around Bath, so that we could use the images for our own PR and marketing activities.

Angela commented afterwards ‘this is another service we could add to our list – organising photo shoots!’