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Why you need to manage your expenditure
My Nan always had a saying – “Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves!” I never fully knew what this meant until I walked into a business that was losing money. A lot of money. This business had been making a lot of money previously and had started to be frivolous […]
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Do you value your time?
Time is the one commodity we can never get back. Yet I hear stories every day of small business owners wasting it like they have an abundance. Giving their time away for free or just not putting a value on it. I had a coffee with a lady a few months ago. She was struggling […]
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Why you need to chunk down your goals
We’ve all been there. We’ve set a goal and then reflect on it and realise it’s huge. Possibly unachievable. It could be losing weight, achieving a PB at the gym or hitting a revenue, profit or cash target in our business. “How the hell are we going to achieve that?” “That’s going to be tough!” […]
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Should I involve the team in the planning process?
A question I often get asked when a client wishes to develop their business plan. It’s a great question and one where there is a generic answer and perhaps an answer specific to each client. Let me tell you a short story… A few years back I attended a presentation by the Marketing Director of […]
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How to free yourself up to success
I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by International Success and Leadership Coach, Barbara Nixon on her Smash Your Own Ceiling Podcast. Barbara and I have had many conversations over the years about how an ambitious business owner can have the best business plan in the world but if they are “stuck in the […]
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Who do you talk to when it gets lonely?
When you are running and scaling a small business, you are often surrounded by people but the irony is that you have nobody to talk to and nobody to listen. Small business owners don’t know what they don’t know. It is often unchartered waters and you encounter challenges of a positive and negative nature on […]
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When the going gets tough, the tough do business
With inflation currently high and a cost-of-living crisis upon us, you’d be forgiven for thinking that business confidence would be at an all-time low. But, according to the TSB and Small Business Britain; over two-thirds of small business owners still expect growth during 2023. That’s a wonderful sign as SMEs account for around 60% of […]
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Do you dare to ask yourself the difficult questions?
A few weeks back I was invited to be a guest on Bruce Carnohan’s LinkedIn Live series. Bruce, based in Arizona and more commonly known as Bruce the Brit, or The Guy In The Blue Shirt (so I put my matching sweater on), runs Process Cleanup. A method of streamlining what you already do through […]
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When does client retention start?
At the end of the first year of working with my first Accountant, I received an email. “Thank you for your business and for working with us for the coming year, please find attached your invoice.” Now, I hadn’t heard from the Business Owner since month one when we were in set-up and hand-over. Not […]
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