Tenterden Pudding Club

Posted by on Mar 26, 2010 in Abaddons Musings, accountants, banks, estate agents, lawyers, local, lunch, professionals, small towns, Tenterden | 2 comments Once a month (on the last Friday in each month), various Tenterden-based professionals and business people (solicitors, accountants, estate agents, IFAs, telecom consultants, bank managers, insurance brokers, etc) get together for an informal, single-course lunch and a bit of networkingThere is no need to commit to attending (nor to apologise if you cannot attend), but if you are in business in...
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Top tips for 2010

Posted by on Mar 18, 2010 in Abaddons Musings, conveyancing, lawyers, legal system, professionals | 0 comments In the Law Society Property Section magazine for this month, 11 members of the section’s executive committee gave their top tips on how to prosper in the new decadeAlmost all of them were very good, but almost all of them were steps, attitudes and procedures we at Nelsons Property Lawyers had adopted from Day 1 – we are looking for ways to imprive beyond these relatively basic client...
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Tenterden accountants get it together

Posted by on Mar 2, 2010 in Abaddons Musings, accountants, professionals, Tenterden | 2 comments Two firms of accoutants with offices in Tenterden are to merge with effect from April Fools’ Day (1 April 2010)Phipps & Co, who also have offices in Rye, will merge with Gibbons Mannington, who also have offices in Rye (and in Bexhill as well)As Phipps & Co have only relatively recently returned to Tenterden, re-absorbing the Day Peto & Co practice that had previously spun...
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Speedy service

Posted by on Feb 15, 2010 in Abaddons Musings, conveyancing, lawyers, professionals, service | 0 comments Even for ex-clients, we offer a speedy serviceWe acted when husband and wife bought a house together in 2006. They are splitting up, and he does not want to use us as we have acted for her on various transactions over the past few years. They have therefore gone to a “neutral” firm to handle the sale of the house.This morning, we received an email from the wife, asking for a...
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What does Google have to do with referral fees?

Posted by on Feb 8, 2010 in Abaddons Musings, estate agents, lawyers, legal system, professionals | 0 comments “You don’t buy it with ads [or referral fees]. You earn it, and you earn it customer by customer, search for search, answer by answer.” – Eric Schmidt of Google on Fox Business News in 2009Despite that comment, Google chose to advertise during the televising of the Super Bowl on 7 February, so perhaps people’s views, or circumstances, or both, changeUntil very...
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Suits

Posted by on Jun 21, 2009 in Abaddons Musings, lawyers, professionals, suits | 0 comments I try to avoid wearing a business suit for work – I am more comfortable in sports jacket and trousers, and I think clients and potential clients are more comfortable not dealing with “a suit”Last week, however, I had to wear a suit on three of the five weeekdays – once for a funeral, once for a meeting at another solicitor’s office and once to attend an auction on...
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