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If you really want to GROW your business in 2024 Blog

If you really want to GROW your business in 2024

As we move from the past year into this new year, we often spend some time reflecting, be that personally or as a business owner. Paul…

Stuart Brown

Are we facing a Tribunal Tsunami? Blog

Are we facing a Tribunal Tsunami?

Covid had many impacts on our businesses, but I fear that more is just sat waiting to hit. The area that I feel is most at…

Stuart Brown

Autumn Statement highlights for individuals Blog

Autumn Statement highlights for individuals

Autumn Statement highlights for individuals By Pura Vida - Personal Financial Planning (Pura Vida are the personal financial planning partners of MAP. They support our…

Pura Vida

10 Years of MAP Blog

10 Years of MAP

10 years of MAP In all honesty, I didn’t think reaching our 10 year anniversary in business would mean that much to me. When we…

Paul Barnes

Is a Credit Score just for me as the Consumer? Blog

Is a Credit Score just for me as the Consumer?

Is a credit score just for me as the Consumer?   It seems that not a day goes past right now, when credit scores are…

Stuart Brown

Budgeting and Forecasting Blog

Budgeting and Forecasting

The Perfect Trio Effective financial reporting in your agency is essential to give you as the owner the best chance of making decisions promptly and…

David Arden

Are my dividend payments legal or illegal? Blog

Are my dividend payments legal or illegal?

Dividends are the route by which shareholders get value back from their investment in a company, and in the agency space MAP represent, this is…

Paul Barnes

Blind dates don’t work Blog

Blind dates don’t work

Many agencies talk to us about whether some external support, such as a Non-Exec, Board Advisor or Mentor would help their business, or themselves as…

Stuart Brown

One size doesn’t fit all Blog

One size doesn’t fit all

As we recorded the last episode of our first season of the MAP Room podcast, we spoke about the opportunities and challenges of remote working…

Stuart Brown

From WhatsApp to Podcast Blog

From WhatsApp to Podcast

Navigating Communication Challenges in the Pandemic Era   When we were in the midst of the Covid pandemic, we questioned how we could best keep…

Stuart Brown

Using data to understand and scale your agency Blog

Using data to understand and scale your agency

In an ever increasingly competitive market, it is critical that agencies and their owners make the best decisions possible to continue heading towards their vision…

Guest Post

AI – Advice or Opinion? Don’t be fooled Blog

AI – Advice or Opinion? Don’t be fooled

As we celebrate April Fool’s Day and we look forward to the Easter break, like many I am looking forward to an overseas holiday. Those…

Stuart Brown

How much money do I need? Blog

How much money do I need?

I recently asked Adam Downes, Financial Planner at Pura Vida, to talk us through the process of working out how much money we need to…

Paul Barnes

“The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there.” Blog

“The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there.”

“The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there.”    That is the famous first line of the Go-Between by L.P. Hartley. But…

Stuart Brown

Happy 40th to the Internet Blog

Happy 40th to the Internet

Happy 40th to the Internet   So, this week the Internet officially turned 40. That means the Internet is older than any of my MAP colleagues.…

Stuart Brown

Building Beneficial Benefits Blog

Building Beneficial Benefits

Building Beneficial Benefits A benefits package can often make the difference between a good employer and a great employer.  Providing benefits to your team is…

Steven Quayle

Chancellor’s Statement – Sept 2022 Blog

Chancellor’s Statement – Sept 2022

Q - When is a Budget not a Budget? A - When it is a Fiscal Event!   The key takeaways from the Chancellor's statement that…

Stuart Brown

Culture V Strategy Blog

Culture V Strategy

The business owner looking to drive company success should focus on their role in creating and maintaining the right culture.   An effective company culture…

Stuart Brown

Optional Remuneration Arrangements (OpRA) Blog

Optional Remuneration Arrangements (OpRA)

Question – When does an OpRA have no music? In our last Blog, my colleague Stuart suggested a Cycle to Work scheme as a way…

Abusina Qureshi

ESG – Environmental, Social and Governance Blog

ESG – Environmental, Social and Governance

ESG - Environmental, Social and Governance   Towards the end of last year, I wrote about the challenges that the SME sector faced when it…

Stuart Brown