You might notice that I have not written any blogs on this site since October 2009. There are two reasons, firstly I have been very busy with the BSc Business Enterprise programme at the University of Buckingham (http://www.buckingham.ac.uk/business/bbe/) and secondly I have had a problem with this site.

Now, thanks to Oli Loftus of Linkgraph Ltd (http://www.linkgraph.net), the site problem has been resolved. I have also taken some holiday from the University, so I should have time to improve my website.

You will also see that "Nigel Adams & Company Ltd" is no more, I am now&a ...

As you will see in the links on the home page of this website, I am a member of a quite a few e-networks, such as Ecademy. However, I feel that I am getting far too many contact requests from people who seem to be just trying to get a large number of contacts, rather than developing quality contacts.

I understand and accept the argument of Penny Power (Founder of Ecademy) that a large number of contacts are needed and it is also important to offer help and assistance to contacts. See more about this in Penny's new book "Know Me, Like Me, Follow Me".

However, unlike some other members of Ecademy, I have found that helping and advising my co ...

Unlike almost every other EU country, Poland's GDP is unlikely to decline in 2009.

Recently I have been looking at the forecasts for Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria and only Poland is forecast to be in the black!

The GDP in Czech Republic and Slovakia is forecast to drop by about 3 to 4% in 2009, whilst the forecasts are that the GDP in   Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria will drop by between 7 and 8.5%.

Talking with my business friends in Poland, I find that in reality business is certainly not declining, though it is not increasing at the same rate it was in the last few years. The property market has, however, dropped.

What can we learn from this? Well, from my experience, I know that the management of banks in Poland learned a lot from their disasterous lending policies in the early 1990's and they have maintained their caut ...

I am amazed that we have had very little interest from members of the Chartered Institute of Marketing in an excellent one day seminar that we have arranged in liaison with UK Trade and Investment in the East Midlands.

The event, entitled "Take it to the world - the power of exporting" will be held at Loughborough University on 10 June 2009. It will have several high profile speakers and a range of practical workshops to help newcomers and old hands to improve their companies' exporting activities.  I feel that this is topical, as the pound is quite low and several counties, especially those in Central Europe are not suffereing the same declines in their economies as the counties of Western Europe.

I will have another go at promoting this excellent event to members of the CIM in the East and West Midlands, but perhaps UK Marketing people are just n ...

If you visit my website and read my blog postings, you will have seen that until last month, though they weren't frequent, my postings were at least regular, at the end of each month.

Not good for a blogger, you might think? How would I get on in the Google ratings? Well, according to a blogging seminar I attended, "regularity" in blogging is as important to the Google "spiders", as "frequency" in blogging!

I therefore try to write my blog regularly at the end of each month, so why did I fail last month? I am pleased to say it was due to pressure of work. This is because both my Nigel Adams & Company Ltd work and university activities have "taken off".

Although there is a "credit crunch" and even Alastair Darling is forecasting "woe and doom" for the British economy, the need for my services continues ...