Business Growth, Advice for Small Sized Business, How to Sell Your Business, Tips to Grow Your Business: Pembridge Partners

Conspicuous consumption? Out. Conspicuous saving? In.

As the dust settles from the initial shockwave of the financial crisis, intelligent commentators are starting to explore the new business reality. A new pattern of consumer behaviour is emerging that means change for the way all of us plan and run our businesses, writes Hugh Mason.

Prenuptials ... maybe not for the bedroom, but ALWAYS for the boardroom

I've had so many messages from friends lately about the pain of business bust-up. With lovers around the world poised for Valentines' Day, it's worth remembering the value of pre-nuptial agreements when you shack up and open up shop, writes Hugh Mason.

Offer consumer insight to build value in your agency

Sir Martin Sorrell has said that he is looking to shift WPP away from traditional marketing services and closer towards consumer insight, market research and in depth analysis. Agencies that might one day seek to be acquired by a group like WPP should learn from the move, writes Rose Lewis.

Offer a hand up, for sure, but please - no hand-outs.

Faced with the double whammy of a rapidly changing marketing/media/technology landscape AND global economic crisis, many Pembridge public sector clients are wondering just what they can do to help SMEs in our sector. Yet others realise an underlying truth: times of seismic change are also times of great opportunity for entrepreneurs, writes Hugh Mason.

PemBRIDGE CLUB – A Place For Creative and Technology Firms To Discuss Mergers

Most agencies face life-or-death struggle in 2009. Agencies will have to partner or merge to survive. Social environments are the best place to develop relations with potential partners, writes Rose Lewis