Too many businesses today have made it to where they are with luck! They may have started without a business plan, had limited or no structured processes and had no goal or direction in how to succeed. A lot of businesses have failed within the critical timeframe for business of the first 5 years, but
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When Is Enough Enough?
As a business owner there are several key moments when you may start questioning the status of your business, and the decision you made to go into business in the first place. Typically these come around during the Christmas break, and again at mid year when it is tax time and you may review your
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3 Simple Steps To Being a Better Tradie!
So, you’re a Tradie- awesome, I love your work! Whether you are a builder, electrician, plumber, plasterer or another trade, in the majority of cases you are pretty good at what you do (you wouldn’t be doing it otherwise would you?). But how would you like to be even better and develop some points of
“Would You Like Fries With That?”
These famous words are linked to the iconic McDonald’s as there revolutionary sales tactic which dramatically increased revenue on transactions by double digit percentages overnight, but as an Ex-Yum Restaurants employee (KFC, PH, Taco Bell), I like to say that KFC was just as good and had the same tactic! I’m not here to argue
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Is Punctuality (and Respect) Dead In Business?
Some recent observations and events have caused me to ask a few questions about time and punctuality. Is it a reality of our busy lives today that we just cannot be on time? I understand that we all fill our calendars to the maximum available minute and cram as much in as possible within a
5 Gifts For Your Business This Christmas
It’s nearly Christmas and as you make the mad rush for those last minute gifts, make sure you don’t overlook the main income source of your life if you own your own business, and that is your business. It too should get a gift this year, so here are my suggestions for a gift to
Goal setting and a bit of semi nakedness!
For the last 30 days I have been completing a bit of a health kick by following a set program. I won’t plug the product, as that is not the intent, but happy to inform anyone who wants to know more. This program required a lot of discipline, change in behaviours and some real mental
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Bored, lonely? How about a meeting?
Do you love a good meeting, or do you relate to the picture below? Ah….meetings, the bane of all organisations, departments and businesses! As an employee, we grow to hate them in most cases, except for those who see them as a great opportunity to do nothing for a while and have coffee, a
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Get a life…….
We all work hard and in fact probably work harder now than in many years gone past. Given the digital world and the constant ‘need’ or ‘expectation’ to be online and available it is no longer a case of working 9 till 5 at the office. I’m sure everyone reading this is guilty of sitting
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Amy’s Gran Fondo – Part 2 – Execution
The big day has come and gone and I am pleased to say the execution part of the bike ride was a success! Close to 4000 people supported the Amy Gillet Foundation for the 2013 Gran Fondo, a 110 km timed event with the extra 10 km decent into Lorne being un-timed for safety reasons
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