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Geo-arbitrage meetings

15/1/2019

 
Where do you go for your business meetings? Where do you hang out with your friends for the weekend? 

For the second year running the PopUp Business School has come to Poland for it's annual team retreat and to plan the year.   Most of the team live in England so why would we all get on a plane and come to Poland?
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The PopUp Business School Team in Gdansk, Poland for the 2019 team retreat
The answer is fairly simple.  It is cheaper and so much cooler! Read on to see the maths and reasons and some ideas to inspire you to do more with your team meetings.....

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The Robin Hood Business Model

12/1/2019

 
Taking from the rich and giving to the poor!  Robin Hood famously stole gold and food and more from the Sheriff of Nottingham and gave it away to the poor!  I was inspired by Robin Hood as I was building the PopUp Business School and I wanted to use the principles and apply it to modern day business.  
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Taking money from the rich and giving it to those that need it
How could I get money from wealthy organisations and companies to help those that needed it the most?

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Can a Business be Financially Independent?

12/1/2019

 

Business FIRE

What if you treated a business's finances as if it were your personal finances? Can a business be financially independent? Should that be a goal?  What is the goal of a business?
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This week the PopUp Business School are in G'Dansk in Poland for their our Annual team retreat!  I will write another article soon about why we travelled all the way to Poland instead of staying in our own country!  This team meeting has inspired me, we have been talking about the Democratisation of Entrepreneurship, where we are going as a business and so much more and it has got me inspire! I have been thinking about applying FIRE principles to a business!  Could you achieve financial independence within a business?

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How to make money fast....

6/1/2019

 
Need cash? Got to make money to pay the bills? Lost your job and need money now!  

Recently inspired by one of my earlier blog posts Susan from the PopUp Business School support group sent me a question which got me thinking.  She said:
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How do you make money fast? Alan holding cash!
how do you make money fast with one idea to move on to the next- I do not have the timescale??
I thought that would make a great blog post

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New year's resolutions and goals

3/1/2019

 

To goal or not to goal?

That is the question!  Every year at PopUp Business School we go away for a week in January to plan, think, set goals and make sure we are heading in the right direction!
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Alan and the PopUp Team at the 2018 Poland Company Retreat
I have had a mixed relationship with goals and targets!  in my early years after a lot of self-development I new I had to set them and then when I failed to reach them I felt like a failure and de-motivated, I have sworn off them and not set them, I have fought against them for my business and then at times I have used them to amazing effectiveness in my personal life.  I don't know whether they are a good thing or a bad thing, I don't know whether you should set them, whether you must set them or not!

​Let's discuss...………...

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SEO Experiment - Alan Donegan to the top!

2/1/2019

 

Getting to the top of Google!

How long does it take to get to the top of the google rankings? How do you get your site listed on the search engines?  What is this SEO stuff that I keep hearing about?

These are some of the questions we get asked the most at PopUp Business School.
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And for good reason! Where do you go and search if you are looking for something???  Most people, whether looking for a restaurant, product or business search online (according to recent research this is higher than 80% of searches) and of those in the UK 80% are on google!  So if you are launching a business you want to show up where people are searching!

That is going to be what this post and this SEO (search Engine Optimisation) experiment are all about.

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