Recently I was spending time with my parents at their home in France. One night my Mum said,
‘Let’s go to the restaurant tonight; I’ve got just two stamps to put on my card, and as there’s three of us, we’ll get one of the meals free!’ she sounded really delighted and pleased with herself. And so we booked in to the only restaurant in the village, a convenient few hundred yards walk from their house.
Earlier that day I had been reading in Onward: How Starbucks Fought for It’s Life Without Losing It’s Soul about their new reward system for their best customers. They already had developed a rewards system, where you received a free coffee for every ten [read more]
Can Business and Love Go Together?
posted in Articles, Jane's Blog
Love is the theme this week, it seems. When I looked at my emails this morning, the Angel of the Day was Love. Some very old friends of ours are coming to visit from America for a few days. Another friend who has been giving Philip EFT offered to put off her holiday and continue giving sessions. My brother Simon has announced the launch of his new online Loving Life programme, free for the month of October. How much love there is!
But can you run a business with love? Can those two words even go together? In fact, this is not a new idea. Reading Chocolate Wars recently by Deborah Cadbury, I was struck by the heartfelt [read more]