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The winner of PRIME’s Christmas rock quiz is Mrs Hilary Weeks, who lives near Dursley in Gloucestershire. She wins £100 in M & S vouchers, plus a bumper bundle of PRIME rock.

There were two answers that some people managed to get wrong. It’s the Rolling Stones who take their own snooker table on tour, watch cricket and demand a private running area for Mick to keep fit in. More rock-star contract riders here

And if you are standard-rate tax payer, £128 is credited to your Personal Pension fund for every £100 that you contribute.

If you haven’t thought about your pension arrangements yet, PRIME’s advice is to go and talk to an independent financial adviser who is familiar with self-employment issues. You can find a list of IFAs by region and speciality here.

Happy Christmas!

The winner of PRIME’s October’s draw is Mrs C Rutter from Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. She wins a £100 in M & S vouchers, plus a bumper bundle of PRIME rock.

PRIME is holding two more prize draws in the run up to Christmas. To enter the November one, just answer the seven quick questions in our “rock quiz”. We are again giving again £100 in M & S vouchers, plus sticks of rock with PRIME written through it!

Enter here.

On another subject, if you haven’t thought about your pension arrangements yet, PRIME’s advice is to go and talk to an independent financial adviser who is familiar with self-employment issues. You can find a list of IFAs by region and speciality here.

Just in case you think we might be trying to sneak in a mention of the subject few self-employed people seem to want to think about - pensions, we are.

PRIME is holding three prize draws in the run up to Christmas. To enter just answer the seven quick questions in our October “rock quiz”. We are giving away £100 in M & S vouchers each month beween now and Christmas, plus a bumper bundle of PRIME rock!

Enter here.

On another subject, if you haven’t thought about your pension arrangements yet PRIME’s advice is to go and talk to an independent financial adviser who is familiar with self-employment issues.  You can find a list of IFAs by region and speciality here.

Just in case you think we might be trying to sneak in a mention of the subject few self-employed people seem to want to think about - pensions, we are.

Here’s a beautifully implemented - and quick, version of the popular Myers-Briggs psychometric test. What it really tells you is what you like to do, rather than what you are necessarily good at. But that’s a start.

You can treat it as a bit of fun. But its lesson for business comes when you realise that many people will answer the same questions very differently to you.

So you can’t assume every customer is the same, that people you work with have the same motivation, or that the person you are about to negotiate with will put the same value on things as you.

Due to the popularity of the previous quiz posted here, here’s another. This one asks whether you have the right personality traits to be an entrepreneur

It comes from the National Endowment for Financial Education in the US, which has some other useful stuff on the links from the quiz page.

Test yourself in this BBC quiz about the new regulations outlawing age discrimination in the workplace in the UK.

This quick quiz from Fortune helps spot your strengths and weaknesses as an entrepreneur.