Decision Making And The Lonely Business Owner How to drive your business forward with an Advisory Board By Roland Hanekroot, May 2013 Life as a business owner often consists of running from client emergency to cash flow crisis, extinguishing a “shoddy work” brushfire on the way, while juggling a supplier disaster and ending the day …

Business Masterminds Observations Create Noble Failures I read ‘It’s not the big that eat the small, it is the fast that eat the slow’ by Jason Jennings and Laurence Haughton years ago (follow this link) and was reminded of that book when reading an article in INC magazine, recently Have you celebrated a failure today? …

4 Steps to create REAL FUN in your business How to create maximum Fun in your business In part 1 of this series of articles I wrote about how 3 letters, FUN, are the most important thing to focus on in your business. Here is a link to read part 1 So in part 2, …

Do you get the feeling, wandering around the shops in this pre-Christmas week and seeing all the bulging shopping bags, that plenty of people still think ‘bigger is better’? One person who doesn’t is Bo Burlingham (on today’s reading list). Burlingham has this great line, “Resisting the pressure to grow is one of the hardest …

So it’s beer o’clock and I want to talk to you about toilet paper. Have I had a few too many already? No! I’ve just been reading Mike Michalowicz’s book, ‘The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur’ today. Mike says, “Owning a business is not about working your arse off for the sake of trying to squeeze out …

The system works! Rebecca gets systemised… Truth 8 Read on to find out how Rebecca learnt that systemisation = less effort + more profit. Once upon a time… a long, long time ago in a country not unlike Australia… Rebecca ran a consulting business. She had a team of six consultants and two administrative assistants. While all …

Mark’s simple and effective sales system… Truth 7 So you’ve got a great product or an awesome service but where are all your customers? Read on to see how Mark found his customers and sent his sales rocketing. Once upon a time… a long, long time ago in a country not unlike Australia… Mark was …

1001 Business Bedtime Stories… Truth 4: Cashflow Ever wondered why sometimes we don’t succeed, even when we know how to solve a problem? Find out how Vivienne overcame her cashflow problem and now couldn’t be happier. Once upon a time… a long, long time ago in a country not unlike Australia… Vivienne owned a consultancy …

1001 Business Bedtime Stories… Truth 5, Marketing Kelvin realises that his bike shop has one great opportunity to carve out a niche for his bikeshop and build remarkable business. Once upon a time… a long, long time ago in a country not unlike Australia… Kelvin owned a bicycle shop in Sydney. Selling bicycles is not …

  1001 Business Bedtime Stories… Truth 4, Financial Management Amanda Owns a boutique hotel and learns to manage her finances so that she starts to make money and have a lot more fun. Once upon a time… a long, long time ago in a country not unlike Australia… Amanda owned a small boutique hotel in …