The start of a new year is an exciting time for all, but it’s also the time when small businesses are most likely to struggle with cash flow. It’s important business owners start planning early to make sure they have enough cash. Many small businesses suffer a cash flow crisis in the weeks after Christmas…
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I recently chatted to Owen Kerr, who is CEO of Australian forex broker Pepperstone. Pepperstone is a hot business in a fast growing space. To do the business justice I’m going to quote from a profile piece in The Age earlier this year: “Owen Kerr and Joe Davenport conceived a new kind of brokerage designed…
When was the last time you gave any serious thought to your future? Can you say with confidence and honesty that you are consciously creating your future? In the 21st century, the boundaries of business are not precisely defined, and the rules of the game are vague, ambiguous, and often fleeting. Many companies worldwide have…
Michael Khatib and his brother Ibrahim always wanted to run a business together. You see, even though they both had stable well-paying jobs – Ibrahim was a senior chef and Michael was an IT Business Analyst – they yearned for more excitement and challenge. Ibrahim was passionate about creating French patisserie and Michael was excited…
Good timing can turn a mediocre product into a breakout success; bad timing can destroy an otherwise successful career. In business, timing is everything. Unfortunately, most people think timing is just like luck. It isn’t. Nothing can be further from the truth. It’s a critical success factor and you can learn to use it to…
Ask any entrepreneur who their top three most trusted sources of information are and, nine out of ten will put forward their accountant in that list. Does your accountant make your list of ‘most trusted’?
Advanced Selling Strategies author Brian Tracey said: “The world belongs to the askers.” The habit of asking must be developed, not only in daily life, but also in business activities. Here are just some of the wonderful things you can achieve in business if you dare to ask. Chicken?
Australian small businesses that use social media as part of their online business strategy are more likely to achieve greater revenue returns from their websites than those that don’t, according to a new research report launched by Melbourne IT. The results also found mobile applications on the rise and confusion around cloud computing.
Sponsored message: There’s a special place for those with a vision and the get-up-and-go to start something. www.thesbhub.com.au is an information resource and online community where you can learn a thing or two about starting a successful business! The course will help you assess the feasibility of your business idea and develop it further.
Sponsored message: There’s a special place for those with a vision and the get-up-and-go to start something. www.thesbhub.com.au is an information resource and online community where you can learn a thing or two about starting a successful business! The course will help you assess the feasibility of your business idea and develop it further.
Sponsored message: There’s a special place for those with a vision and the get-up-and-go to start something. www.thesbhub.com.au is an information resource and online community where you can learn a thing or two about starting a successful business! The course guides you through the practicalities of opening a business and completing a business plan.
Just like dressing up a house for auction, giving your website a spit and polish prior to sale will ensure you achieve the best outcome. The following seven steps can help make your treasured site shine, prior to putting it on the market and attracting top dollar.
Thinking about selling your company, buying a competitor, or maybe raising capital? According to Kenneth H. Marks, you’ll need a deal team with the right mix of talent and experiences to get the best value and to assure the transaction happens.
This proposed new awards ceremony would be about celebrating the journey entrepreneurs take and acknowledging that iterating, growing, learning, changing or modifying the plan according to evidence and experience shouldn’t ever be seen as a ‘failure’ of the original plan… but is in fact ‘business as usual’.
Business is best defined as: “Creating wealth through profitable transactions.” I came to this definition many years ago after winning a job as General Manager of a medium-sized company and later boasting to a friend that revenue had increased threefold under my guidance. “Great,” he said, “but what about profit?”
This was a great question.
In the final post in this popular series, Nigel Malone shares his thoughts on creatives in a business context.
“Many a client has told me the creative process is foreign to them, and they don’t really understand how ‘creative people’ do what they do. By the same token, many creatives, to their detriment, fail to understand the consumer and prefer to operate in an artistic vacuum. And if some clients pitched their wares directly to the consumer, well they’d lose interest pretty quickly.”
In the ninth post in this series, Nigel Malone shares the contents of another of his favourite business keynote slides, drawn from a cross-section of sources that includes some of the great business, brand and military planners of all time.
Anyone in sales will tell you it’s a process — and they are dead right. But what is that process? Enter the Sales Funnel, another of my favourite slides.
In the seventh post in this series, Nigel Malone shares the contents of another of his favourite business keynote slides, drawn from a cross-section of sources that includes some of the great business, brand and military planners of all time.
In the sixth post in this series, Nigel Malone shares the contents of another of his favourite business keynote slides, drawn from a cross-section of sources that includes some of the great business, brand and military planners of all time.
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