What is in a System

What is in a System
For many the potential to find this magical formula to success has become an overwhelming search. Which for almost as many has proved to be a fruitless search. However for some this search has proved to be very rewarding, but at the same time what creates this different is not something that is easily...

Watch the Cracks

One of the biggest losses of money for many businesses is when money slips through the cracks. This can happen in many ways, by not watching expenses, or not fully charging all the expenses you should be passing on, other cracks may be numerous, and barely noticeable. However almost every business is losing...

Create Procedures to Create Growth

One of the key things that you will find with many large companies is that there are a lot of positions that can be filled just by teaching a new hire how to do the job. This is something that is also seen quite often within Franchises. The whole idea is to create procedures that can be easily followed, by...

Don’t compete on Price

While this is something that you have probably heard, read, or seen being touted quite often. It may have been something that you choose to pay attention to or not. In reality there is actually some good reasons why competing on price will not get you anywhere. You may believe that the cheapest price will...

Get a Website

It still seems to amaze, me how so many businesses that could benefit from a website just seem to ignore the fact. While a website is not going to be the end of all your business problems, and give you unlimited income. It will make it easier to connect with potential customers and really start the sales...

Make it easy to buy

While it may be a point that you would like to disagree on, the general idea is that if you are in business it is to make money. Of course one of the ideas that you need to understand to do this is that in most cases the more you sell the more money you make. You would expect that the idea then would be to...

Use the products that you sell

More and more small businesses are starting up all over the country, and the world for that matter. One thing that needs to be very important to you as a small business is the idea of using the products you sell. I will give an example in a minute. However this is something that you really need to be...

Critical Success Factors

In every business there are a number of factors that are critical to the success of the business. These factors do change for every business but it is quite important to find what they are and see what you can do to ensure they are being maintained in your business. You may be wondering what a critical...

Build a good Relationship with your Landlord

For many business the facts of running a business mean that you are leasing in some form or another an office, a shop or other type of facility to operate your business from. While it is possible to work with No Fixed Office, there is still a great number of businesses that do happen to need an office or...

Take a real holiday

The more that i thought about this heading for a post, the more i realized how little of my own advice i sometimes seem to take. It has been literally maybe 7 or 8 years since i spent a night further then 100km from home. In actual fact in that time i do not think that i have traveled more then 60km from...

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