Last Friday we took part in our local community Christmas Fun night. So often businesses seem faceless and corporate so this is a great opportunity to see the people we value most out of that context and in a more relaxed atmosphere. It’s always a bit of a rush to get set up and ready
Unless you are lucky enough to own James Bond’s Lotus Esprit come submarine or Chitty Chitty Bang Bang you should be considering what damage you could do by not taking care through flood water. According to the Insurance Times the AA saw almost 9,000 cases in recent times of vehicles damaged after being driven through
I am not into scare-mongering – that is not the way to sell insurance, in fact I don’t like to even ‘sell’ insurance. Our intention is to ‘provide’ insurance that people need. Where we see gaps we can offer cover and protection – something that cannot be done by a computer or someone in a
It's no secret, particularly if you are in the motor trade, that insurance rates are on the up. This is often no reflection on the individual or business at hand as they may have not experienced any claims and still present a good risk but claims seen across the board mean insurers have seen a
A while ago I blogged about controlling your inner chimp. This technique, explained to me by Coaching Psychologist, Mike Duckett, was pioneered by TeamGB and generally famous sports psychologist Dr Steve Peters and it totally makes sense. In fact one could look at the David Brailsford (Performance Director of British Cycling) era and utilise the lessons
We all know what average means in real life but in insurance terms it is something you all should certainly know about. This post is extremely relevant to my last one (the pitfalls of using comparison sites) and to anyone who may be getting their insurances direct from the internet or over the phone with
Consumer website Moneyvista - www.moneyvista.com - provided food for thought in a recent article about using price comparison websites. Of course we have all experienced these and we know how cheap they can be but cheap is a bad word. How often do we use the word 'cheap' to describe something of substandard quality -
Typically we would advise a client to take out Terrorism cover, particularly where the location of the property or business dictates that this would be a good idea i.e. inner M25, next to power stations, points of interest etcetera. The cost of this is often nominal compared to the premium itself and is not going
On Saturday the 30th June a band of Fairweather staff lived up to their name and brought sunshine to proceedings at the Feast of St Peter - Chalfont St Peter's annual summer festival. There was live music, community stalls, local businesses, displays, sports, kids events and everything in between. We were very pleased to see
I was thrilled to welcome guest speakers from Urban Media www.urbanmedia.co.uk and Zebedee internet www.zebedeeim.co.uk yesterday to speak to local businesses and some of our commercial clients about the importance of web presence online. I am not the expert - you need to speak to them about that but there were some key lessons which I would share with