Problems? It’s no problem

Oct 10 2007 by Iain Laing, The Journal

PROBLEMS: even the most successful business has them and the ability to come up with creative and practical solutions is a good measure of a boss.

And to some extent all businesses have similar problems. For instance, how to market, how to raise money, how to keep shareholders happy or recruit the right managers.

At nebusiness, we decided we wanted to help our readers overcome their problems and thought that we might call in a little expert help to do so.

And so we called on the Entrepreneurs Forum, a North-East membership group devoted to bringing together the bosses of companies large and small to share advice.

Now every month, more frequently on our website, we will get 50 handpicked entrepreneurs to answer your queries.

Our agony aunts and uncles range from the boss of FTSE 100 company Sage to managers of the smallest operations – so in theory there should be an appropriate expert to answer every conceivable inquiry.

To get access to this extraordinary array of talent, all you have to is to drop me a line at iain.laing@ncjmedia.co.uk or if you are not online, then call me on (0191) 201-6429 and tell me your business problem.

We are quite happy to deal with anonymous problems, but if you want to share a few details about your company and why you need help, then that may well help other businesses in the same position.

To kick things off, we have put a common question to a range of entrepreneurs, but from next month we will look at the real problems of North-East companies and our experts will do their very best to solve them.