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Franchise “style” businesses have a success rate of around 75% Compared to 10% for your standard garden variety business! There’s is a simple reason. What does the Franchise business have that just about every other business doesn’t? I also revisit Mike Michalowicz and the most impactful and talked about “procedure” for smashing profit in your […]
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We all want more profit in our business. Trouble is, anytime money is the number one focus, productivity and pleasure often go out the window. I’ll be speaking with Michael Brecht CEO of doodle.com and he can save you an hour a day. Plus some very cool tech that will save you time and improve […]
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Knowing why and then how to implement this thinking into your business can simplify your business and increase your profits massively.
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Knowing why to measure is a start, Knowing what to measure is an improvement, Knowing how to measure is the secret. Your decisions and and actions change when you get the real picture. I speak to Linkedin expert Sarah Santacroce about how a small business finds it’s place on the interweb!
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I can’t believe how prolific Profanity has become and it’s really messed up. You are losing sales and reducing customer loyalty because of it. Stay with me for this weeks show to make sure you plug this leak in your ship. Also You’ll hear from Derek Austin from Nuance.com about a time and money saving […]
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There is a much simpler easier way to build your business, increase productivity and profits, and reduce your workload. And there is common mindset and approach the majority of small business owners subscribe to that make everything I just talked about almost impossible! Listen in to Zoom.us Rep Corey Linberg about an awesome time and […]
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How much do you know about motivation? Do you have it? or do you need it? Is it always a good thing? This week I speak to Master motivator and global guru Professor Mark Moorehouse (Aka Leigh Farnell)
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Do you know which is the most important area of a small business? Do you have a planned and measurable approach to manage this area of your business. Get great marketing guidance from the king of “Content Marketing” Joe Pulizzi.
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Some Business owners have lost their passion for their business, some never really had it! It’s an essential ingredient for a successful business. You can get it by following a few simple ideas. Download the episode here.
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There are vital actions and activity that must be measured for a business to become more profitable and successful. Measuring the wrong things can sometimes be worse than measuring nothing. I speak to Leigh Farnell to unpack what you can do to make more sales.
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Increase the speed of building your business whilst reducing your workload! Sounds nice doesn’t it! But is it even possible for your business?
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Knowing where you are headed is critical, it can speed up your journey to build the business of your dreams and avoid a ton of frustration and wasted time along the way! Meet Derek Austin From Nuance Communications, to learn about a very cool resource in “Time Saving Tech Talk”
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“There are some people you can be with for an hour but not a day” Jim Rohn. Who you spend time with can be critical to your business success. You will find out how you can get the right people around you. I speak with CEO of Smartpen Mark Parker and show you how you […]
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If you feel time pressure in your day, watch this episode of Small Business Smart Solutions for a number of ways you can get more done. Listen to Michael Brecht CEO of Doodle.com a very cool scheduling tool you need to be using. Link to download the show here.
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They’re not roles they are mindsets! One is focused on creating freedom, the other tends to create a prison make you a slave to your business – I also speak to two guys that will share some awesome resources for your business. David Barrett speaks on Expensify and I introduce you to Voiceover Pete.
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Building a successful small business is simple (I didn’t say easy) But there are some business models and strategies that work better than others. Watch this weeks show to see where your business might sit.
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Do you find it easy to see problems in other businesses? If that’s the case, doesn’t it stand to reason that someone else might be able to spot deficiencies in your business – Listen to Performance Coach Jairek Robbins
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Unless the purpose of going into business for you was to work extraordinary hours, worry a lot, have very few holidays and feel stressed you might be doing something wrong.
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CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO VERSION – There are business practices and philosophies that make running a business more difficult than it needs to be or easier if you prefer. Which practices and philosophies do you want to use in your business? This weeks Guest Chris Savage Founder of Wistia
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CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO VERSION – Most business owners spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about the what and how of their business but… Why is the most important out of the how, what and why trilogy. You need to know where to most effectively use your why. Mike Michalowicz shows you how to get […]
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Not everything you need to do to make a small business successful is easy or enjoyable. In fact there’s plenty of activity that very few people enjoy, such as mastering new technology, creating and measuring a marketing strategy, selling and administration, But… What happens if you ignore it or do a poor job because you […]
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Whoever said knowledge is power wasn’t talking about how to build a successful small business. Because the secret isn’t in the knowledge it’s in the application of that knowledge. Listen to David Dutton marketing guru and master of getting it done! Click Here for the video of this show
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You must learn to walk before you can run. This applies to so many things including building a business, but vary rarely seems to be adhered to with small business owners. I speak with Ramon Ray, Small Business Evangelist – CLICK HERE to watch the video
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If you were listening last year you would have gotten the good oil on the best way to plan this year. So if you missed it, or didn’t follow up, or just chose to check out and start a fresh at the start of the year – Have you missed the boat? Is it already […]
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Whatever you focus on and practise you get good at. So it makes sense to have a ritual to keep you focused on the things that are going to take you where you want to go. The majority of the population focus on the things they don’t want and guess what, that’s what they end […]
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The thing that will make the biggest difference to your business, your bank account, your health and your relationships in the next 12 months is your philosophy – Jim Rohn. The most common mindset that business owners have is the most common reason for small business failure. We need to model what works not what […]
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Business coaching is a rapidly growing industry, but is it actually helping businesses become more successful? If you take a peek at business success statistics they haven’t changed a whole lot so, it doesn’t seem so.
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There are so many great words of wisdom and words of advice that can take away your businesses “ugly bits” and help you accelerate your success. Wouldn’t it be great to have them all in one place.
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Ask most business owners which out of the owner themselves, their staff or their customers which are most important, they always choose the customer. But the customer is the least important!
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Coming into the Christmas holiday season do you traditionally experience additional stress trying to get everything done, then worry about things while your are meant to be enjoying a break, only to return to work wishing you were still on holidays?
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The paperless office, technology that makes our work life a dream, software, apps and gadgets that save us time and effort and relive us from the day to day grind, aren’t you glad this is now a reality.
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The definition of insanity is do the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. The same could be said for running your business the same as most others businesses around – It’s just insane
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“Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in the world”. Of course there are circumstances that can be pointed at as being responsible for a business failing or for that matter succeeding because they had a lucky break, but really it had much less to do with the circumstances than it did […]
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Do as I say not as I do, doesn’t cut it when it comes to being an effective leader! Where do you stand on the question, are leaders born or made? There would be no point in learning leadership skills if all leaders were born!
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Of course we are in business for profit! As well as freedom and enjoyment and to set up our future or perhaps leave a legacy, but we are in it for profit!
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There’s a lot of talk about leadership being essential for small business success. The trouble is it takes a lot of time and effort to create great leadership.
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It doesn’t matter how passionate or committed you are, sometimes you’re just too close to the action to see opportunities or solutions. Check out the latest time-saving solution that I’ve found for calendar scheduling, it’s Doodle!
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A recent global study found that 94% of marketing does not work. For small business marketing can be a huge challenge. Getting it right without the huge corporate marketing budgets for testing and research can be often be an unsolvable puzzle.
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The old adage “ whatever gets measured gets managed” is a fairly common quote you hear getting bandied around the traps, but it rarely gets put into practice!
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You can’t build a great business on your own, you need a team, so your best focus is learning how build a team. Invest you time into mastering the art of building, maintaining and nurturing a team, and your business will be great.
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Being efficient isn’t always a good thing, in fact often it’s a bad thing! Being efficient is better than not being efficient but there is a much more worthwhile focus if you want business success!
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We are funny cattle! It’s amazing how often we continue to do things that just don’t work. Or we find things that do work and stop doing them! You might be thinking “that’s just ridiculous” but I bet you do it!
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We are mostly trying to get the best advice and guidance we can either for free or cheap. That advice tends to be very expensive more often than not because it’s just untested opinion
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Doing the opposite of what the majority of the population thinks is right is often a great place to start, if you want to be successful with just about anything.
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As they say “success leaves clues” and you don’t even have to be Sherlock Holmes to find them. They’re the habits that successful people perform daily. And guess what unsuccessful people have their habits too.
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The creator of Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll’s famous quote “if you don’t know where you’re going any road will take you there”, really should be the small business mantra.
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Traditional advertising on mainstream media is a waste of money for small business. Surely if you were going to invest money you would want to know what return you were getting. You need to know your customer to match the right message to the right media
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We all want to get the best results we can, as fast as we can with the least amount of effort right? So we need to know where to put our focus when building our business, so we can get the best return on our efforts.
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There’s some things in business that if you don’t get to straightaway, it doesn’t hurt too much, it can catch up. There are other things in business that will hurt you forever because there is no catching up
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The Jim Lovell quote mentions these 3 groups of people, I suspect if you’re even reading this you aren’t in the third group, but are you in the first or the second?
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You Can Kill Your Business With Your Mind, and I don’t mean like in the movie “Carrie”, but the way you think can seriously help or harm your business.
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It’s easy to get distracted with all of the “bright shiny objects” that are put in front of us every day. They all promise an easy road to success and wealth. And yes some really work but it’s a huge task to dig through all of the dirt and rocks to get to the gold.
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Whether you are building a letterbox or a 2 storey house, the quality of the plan will determine the speed, and quality of the outcome and the amount of unnecessary costs of mistakes and rework. Your business is no different!
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There is a new style of team or staff management emerging. It seems to be getting much higher levels of productivity than the old school people management practices and philosophies. The question you need to ask yourself is, is updating what has been working for you in the past worth the effort.
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When you feel good you perform well, and when you perform well, you feel good. What a great upward spiral! The only trouble is it works just as well in reverse and it’s much harder to pull out of a nose dive. It takes a lot more energy to reverse a downward spiral than just […]
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Are you really missing out on tons of business if you don’t use technology like websites, social media, blogging and video? and will your business go the way of the dinosaurs if you don’t get your technological act together! Can your business actually survive and thrive using old school business practices?
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There are so many aspects that need to be managed and mastered in a small business to ensure success, but there is one that above all that determines not only success but survival.
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A stitch in time saves nine, prevention is better than the cure, failing to plan is planning to fail etc etc. There is no shortage of sayings, quotes and the like that are for the most part wise and correct, but do we really bother to heed the message and consciously implement the wisdom, the […]
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Customer service must be driven by the customers perception of great or poor, not then business owners or staff’s point of view. What do you have in place to measure and monitor your customers opinions and implement improvements?
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Social media presents huge opportunities for you to grow your business, but just like when you meet people for the first time, your first impression can be a game changer
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Business coaching is a rapidly growing industry, but is it actually helping businesses become more successful? If you take a peek at business success statistics they haven’t changed a whole lot so, it doesn’t seem so. So what’s the problem? Is business coaching just a bunch of theory that doesn’t work? Is business coaching fundamentally […]
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Having a clear vision of the purpose of your business is critical for you to enjoy the business and personal life you want. If the business doesn’t really have a purpose other than to create work and make money, it doesn’t really fulfil the needs of the owner or the staff and therefore will never […]
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Time management is one of those crazy areas that many people know they need but never get around to doing anything about. Imagine driving around in your car going to important meetings looking at your fuel gauge approaching empty and saying I don’t have time to stop for fuel, I am too busy driving, plus […]
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Whatever you focus on and practise you get good at. So it makes sense to have a ritual to keep you focused on the things that are going to take you where you want to go. The majority of the population focus on the things they don’t want and guess what, that’s what they end […]
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There are no more common complaints that come from the lips of small business owners lips than comments such as “good help is hard to find” and “No one around here cares as much as me”. A couple of classic belief systems that are responsible for more stress and grief in small business than just […]
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Because success leaves clues, wouldn’t it be a smart option to become a detective and learn from others experience in both success and failures. There are lessons from success all around us we just need to develop the sensory perception to find and use the clues success leaves behind. They aren’t always in obvious places […]
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“The thing that will make the biggest difference to your business, your bank account, your health and your relationships in the next 12 months is your philosophy” – Jim Rohn. The most common mindset that business owners have is the most common reason for small business failure. We need to model what works not what […]
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Increasing employee engagement by having a focus on an event or a great cause will create benefits for your business on many fronts. It galvanises the team, expands individuals desire to go above and beyond and interrupts the “Same ol’ same ol’ by having bigger more exciting reason to show up over and above just […]
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Caring is pivotal to business success! “Tell me something I don’t know” I hear you scream! You need to ensure you care about the right things, and caring about your staff is where it starts. Care about them and their needs and they will in turn care far more about you the business and the […]
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Observe most small business owners and you will see a person willing to take on more and more responsibility and tasks, but this is often the downfall of business progress and improvement. Thinking like an entrepreneur can change things drastically, because an entrepreneur is always looking to delegate, automate or eliminate day to day tasks. […]
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Standing out from your competition is something you here all the time, but how to do it is what you need to know. This weeks show spells out the simple steps you can take so you aren’t even being compared to your competition.
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Often we think that everyone things the way we do, or we think they should. We assume what we think is funny, important, impactful, scary or offensive everyone does! This can lose you sales and harm your reputation and it’s something we just don’t think about. As they say “you only have one chance to […]
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A small business simply can’t afford to have their staff perform at less than 100%, yet most do! It’s not that complicated to get your people engaged and behave like they have ownership of the business. But it does depend on what you choose to focus on and what you invest your time doing. In […]
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There are far too many misleading and in fact destructive philosophies hidden in common sayings and just because they are widely are espoused, we believe them to be true. Don’t just take things on face value test, measure and get proof not just opinion. As they say opinions are like butt’s, everyone has one!
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You don’t’ want to put all of that time. effort. blood, sweat and tears into your business only to find it has been for “zip zero”, do you? Knowing what and how to measure, so that you know what to work on to make your business more valuable to sell or even have it support […]
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Understanding how powerful your example and the energy that you bring through the front door each day you come to work can be incredible. Knowing this should ensure that you check how you are and what your focus is bvefore you have any interaction with your team or customers for that matter. Learning a simple […]
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No business has ever shut down because they made too much money – A look at why most small businesses leave a ton of cash on the table through lost sales, and what you can do to get the whole team on board contributing to generating more revenue for the business – We will tap […]
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