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Category Archives: Grey Products
Equity Release Alarm Bells !
This is a follow-up to my post “Equity Release Revisisted” which prompted me to look into the subject again and start a new series of blogs on the subject. I first wrote about this in 2012 and then again in … Continue reading
Equity Release Sales Patter
This is a follow-up to my post “Equity Release Revisisted” which prompted me to look into the subject again and start a new series of blogs on the subject. I first wrote about this in 2012 and then again in … Continue reading
Equity Release Research Key Issues
This is a follow-up to my post “Equity Release Revisited” which prompted me to look into the subject again. I first wrote blogs about this subject in 2012 and then again in 2015. (You can find my earlier posts … Continue reading
Equity Release Revisited
I first wrote blogs about this subject in 2012 and then again in 2015. ( You can find my earlier posts by clicking on Equity Release in the TAG CLOUD). The use of this type of borrowing has grown substantially since … Continue reading
New Year Virtual Ramble
This is a continuation of my ramble through Silicon Valley and stumbling on the magical mythical unicorn. This is geekie speak which I will explain, before we start. A “unicorn company” is a start-up tech business that … Continue reading
Baby Boomer Plasters
There are 15 million older people in the U.K. and that number will increase by 24% by 2040. So it represents the fastest growing sector of the population. In marketing terms it is the least well understood … Continue reading
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Memory Card Readers
I can’t imagine why anyone would want a card reader. I can read my cards all by myself. Perhaps they get a lot more fan mail than I do, or receive hundreds of Christmas cards which they don’t … Continue reading
