Business Growth And Development
100 Days That Will Define Your Business Forever
So you’ve done the hard work of winning a new customer, but it’s what you do in the next 100 days that determines if it’ll stick around.
Read MoreSuccess Habit: Preparing A Daily ‘Brain Dump’ Action Plan
A productive day is defined with what you choose to achieve as much as to what you purposefully choose to leave out. Keeping a detailed list of related priorities in your head can be hard, even for the best of us. It’s not the best use of our mental capacity, anyway. There is a great…
Read MoreBusiness Owners: How To Be 400 Percent More Effective
When business owners get stuck working ‘in’ the business, there are two things that business owners start to find challenging very quickly: thinking ahead and doing things in order of importance. Losing control and not doing these two key activities make the difference between just surviving in business and owning a successful, profitable and predictable…
Read MoreHow To Do A Daily Standup WIFLE Meeting
Business owners looking to build a championship team who run the business for them, will have noticed the gaining popularity of the daily standup meeting and the benefits of implementing them in their own business. Today, I want to talk about a particular type of quick stand up meeting, that myself and other thought leaders…
Read MoreBusiness Owners: Communicate Clearly With VAK (Visual Auditory Kinesthetic)
Do you feel like sometimes you struggle to be understood and be heard by your team? Or, have you ever found yourself repeating the same instructions to a team member and they just don’t “get it”. Your communication method is the key. Business owners, more often than not, communicate with others using methods that work…
Read MoreYou Need A Business Coach … Even If You Don’t Want One!
In a recent podcast interview I listened to, famed thought leader Seth Godin exclaimed that nowadays, nobody wants a [business] coach … everybody who wants a coach already has got themselves one … I think Seth is absolutely right, and I couldn’t agree more! Business Owners Want Results … Here’s why…just like nobody wants to buy a drill…
Read MoreUsing DiSC Profiling Tools To Get More From Your Team
Why are tools like DiSC important for you to master?… As a business owner knowing how and where people work best can be a powerful and lucrative skillset for those with a team of people. Profiling tools such as DiSC are not new by any means, but the right tool is still one of the…
Read MoreWhere To Start, When Your Growth Stops
Why would two companies in the same industry, with the same financial performance, command vastly different valuations? The answer often comes down to how much each business is likely to grow in the future. The problem is that a lot of successful businesses reach a point where their growth starts to slow as the company matures.…
Read MoreSubscribers Make Your Company More Valuable
Deck: Why are Amazon, Apple and many of the most promising Silicon Valley start-ups leveraging a subscription business model? Subscribers not only provide steady turnover; they make your company more valuable in the eyes of an acquirer. In a traditional business, customers buy your product or service once and may or may not choose to…
Read MoreBusiness Valuation
Deck: Business valuation goes beyond simple mathematics, but to get some idea of what your business might be worth, consider the three methods below. Your business is likely your largest asset so it’s normal to want to know what it is worth. The problem is: business valuation is what one might call a ‘subjective science’.…
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