The importance of Values in your business: He recruited enough accountants to have a 5-a-side football team! Many years ago, a MD of a print business recruited at least 5 different accountants / book-keepers to run his finance function. These were sequential appointments for the same role. I said to the MD that the common […]
Read full story There’s a business owner I know who was feeling stressed about their business. Specifically, it was about the team not completing their day-to-day tasks on time, or people not following through on the commitments they made. There was no accountability. Also, mistakes were made too often, and nobody was grabbing a problem and sorting it […]
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As a business owner you are the hub of the business. Seems obvious. Maybe it’s something you feel good about – the business needs you. It’s no surprise that the most common and biggest influence on the life of a business owner is how well they handle the Hub & Spoke aspect of their […]
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Volvo make their cars available on a subscription model where consumers will pay one fixed fee per month for access to a car which includes insurance and maintenance. Everything from toothbrushes to flowers are now available with subscription billing, creating recurring revenue. Future Value comes from recurring revenue When it comes to […]
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In my previous blog (which you can read here) I introduced the 4 steps to scaling up your business. I then described the first two of having a scalable product (one that is teachable to your team, is of value to customers and is a repeatable purchase) and having a scalable infrastructure (Systems, processes and […]
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I bet you every business owner you talk to is interested in growing their business. They’ll talk about business growth or scaling up their business. A business that isn’t growing is declining. But scaling up isn’t as easy in practice. When you’re a one-person business you have to do the selling and the doing plus […]
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Do you want to make your company more valuable? Especially if you can say yes to these three aspects of value. I think they are really important to SME business owners like you and me: making good profits to fund growth, an income for you plus put money away in a pension or building; not […]
Read full story Business Owners are often looking to increase their business value and the most common approach is to focus on the sales figures. When trying to increase sales, many businesses decide that they need to cross sell new products or services to their existing customers. Cross selling may be a great marketing strategy, but if your […]
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Through my many years of working with business owners, I find that some focus on growing their profits, while others are obsessed with sales goals. But have you ever considered making it your primary goal to set up your business so that it can thrive and grow without you? A business not dependent on its owner is the ultimate asset to own. […]
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