How to get ahead, hit the ground running in 2020 and take a leaf out of Google’s marketing plan! It’s one of my favourite weekends of the year – sad I know – but, if you’re anything like me, you’ll really love the luxury of that extra hour as the clocks go back. This year …
How are you going to use your extra hour this weekend? Read More »
Tom was 34 when he finally realised that his job working as a production manager at Deadend Ltd wasn’t taking him anywhere. He’d worked his fingers to the bone and seen little of the reward. That said, he’d acquired a great set of skills and knew he was an expert in his field. That was …
Meet Tom – he’s a “Typical Owner Manager” (You probably know him already!) Read More »
Discover the DNA of profitability for your business Are you like most business owners – do you believe you need to take dramatic steps to improve the profitability of your business? You may believe, for example, that if you want to double your profits, you need to double your sales or halve your costs; you may …
With all the political uncertainty around at the moment, it is more important than ever to have a positive attitude towards your business. Remember, if you fail, your business fails! It was a wise person who said, “whether you think you can or think you can not, you are probably right…” With this in mind we’ve …
Be careful what you read and be careful who you listen to! Read More »
Whatever your sport (in fact, even if you aren’t a sports fan, you’ll appreciate the analogy), have you ever stoped to imagine how futile the whole thing would be if, say, a rugby match had no way of scoring points, or nobody timed a marathon and there was no finish line… Sports people and teams …
We all have ambitions for our business – you may be full of good intentions about changes you need to make to realise these dreams but it’s also very possible that you’re feeling that some of those good intentions are slipping as you and your team revert back into old ways and bad habits. To …
Whilst we’re labouring away at the coalface of our businesses it can be easy to ignore many of the wider economic and political factors that are changing around us. The simple fact is that we’re working in a competitive world and our competitors are responding to new social trends and investing in skills and technology …
How to boil a frog – why doing nothing is NOT an option! Read More »
Several years ago, a leading pub group that I worked for commissioned some really good research to look at what encouraged and discouraged customers to or from their premises. They divided their findings under the headings of ‘Quality Enhancers’ and ‘Quality Destroyers’. They identified enhancers such as: the faint aroma of an open coal or …
Sometimes we are so fixated on achieving perfection – on having all our ‘ducks lined up’ – that it stops us from ever getting going. We become stifled by perfection and end up paralysed and unable to get our next great idea off the ground. Whilst it’s nice to get things right first time – …
The majority of small business failures are actually a result of cash flow and not profit problems. There are many examples of small business that sold so much so fast that they could not pay their bills. Primarily because they were not paid quickly enough from their customers but now have to pay more bills …
Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity, but cash is king Read More »
