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How accessing the right finance is crucial to your business growth strategy
Expanding and growing your business can be a daunting experience. Whatever field you work in, and whatever your specific aims, developing your business will need time, commitment, strategy, and funding. It’s this latter point that some businesses may struggle with,...
21 Big Mistakes SME Business Owners Make When It Comes to Generating Consistent Qualified Leads
What we find, having worked with 100’s of established SME Business Owners over the years, is that many of them are unknowingly making significant mistakes in their marketing and sales efforts which are costing them dearly in wasted time, poor investments in marketing...
What will it cost you to grow and how will you fund it?
Do you know what it’s going to cost you to achieve your growth ambitions for your business?Why is this so important to know? Many businesses forge forward without fully considering the financial implications of the growth decisions they make and can find themselves...
Should I be developing leaders in my small business?
As a small business owner with a small team it’s easy to think you are the only one who should be leading. It’s easy to think that you need to know everything, direct everything and be in charge of everything. After all, you are employing people to...
A quick tip for your New Year’s resolutions
2018 is fast approaching! The new year is always a great opportunity to start with a clean slate, consider what you want to change and improve and set your resolutions for the year to come.The concept of New Years’ resolutions can be a bit of a standing...
Why it’s essential to conduct an end of year business review?
It’s rare in business that we take time out to think about the bigger picture. We’re often so busy just keeping the business going (delivering for our clients, managing employees, keeping on top of suppliers, maintaining relationships with key partners etc) that the...
Apple “Crumble”, Lewis Hamilton & Poison
On Monday night I went out for a nice meal at a gastro pub in a country village. I’d not been there before and I was impressed. Nice atmosphere, tasty wines, delicious food, all was going really well until it came to desert. I plumped for the blackberry and apple...
Recruitment? People should just be grateful for the opportunity of a job shouldn’t they!?
As an entrepreneur it can be easy to think this way about recruitment. You’ve grafted to create a company that generates enough income that you can now employ others, but it’s been blood, sweat and tears all the way. Now you’re in a position to offer...
Are you using this source of powerful information that can help you grow your business?
There are so many factors that go into making up a successful business. You’ve got to have a lot of things in place including The right product or service The right people to deliver it The right leadership The right systems and processes The right messaging to...
How to create a powerful vision that pulls you towards greater business success
Once you have clarified your business purpose by reading the previous blog and answering the 20 Questions guaranteed to fuel the fire that will drive you to greater business success! you should have a boost in your drive to achieve the next level in your business and...
20 Questions guaranteed to fuel the fire that will drive you to greater business success!
When someone leaves employment to start their own business they experience a huge surge of excitement about the possibility of what the future can hold for them. They are liberated from working for someone else's gain. Away from the stress of their old employer. ...
Are you in danger of “time bankruptcy”!?
If like many other Business Owners you struggle with balancing the amount of things you have committed to with the amount of time you have, then you may be in danger of “time bankruptcy!” This means you are reaching the point where time debt is creeping higher and...
