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Quick Business Tip – Are Business Partnerships Good?

May 11, 2016
My clients know my position on business partnerships, however, let’s explore the pros and cons. Pros: share responsibility share finances time out for holidays brainstorming opportunities financing...

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Quick Business Tip – What’s Wrong With “The Gift Of The Gab”?

May 4, 2016
All too often I hear business owners say that a particular sales person they know has the “gift of the gab” and they assume that he/she is extremely “salesy” and that they must be good at selling...

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Quick Business Tip – In The Zone

April 28, 2016
Remember the days when you were on top of the world whilst running your business? How do you bottle that up and repeat it? You must think of the environment. What was the environment that you were in...

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Quick Business Tip – Who Is Your Competition?

April 8, 2016
Do you really know your competition? What is the genuine size of your market that you compete in? Do you or should you really care? The important thing to know is that whatever the answers are, the...

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Quick Business Tip – Sports And Businesses Run The Same.

March 31, 2016
Professional sports these days are run no differently to any business you may think of. Administration is structured the same. However, the less likely analogy is regarding the playing management...

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Quick Business Tip – Conspiracy Against The Business Owner.

March 15, 2016
Conspiracy against the small business owner happens all the time. How you may ask? Everything is stacked against them: financial, human and time resources are of scarce amounts and the loneliness of...

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Quick Business Tip – Who Dares, Wins

February 23, 2016
Who dares, wins – You’ve heard that one before, but, how does it apply to small business? Risk v Return applies to investments, relationships and business, of course. Ever seen an ugly dude with a...

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Quick Business Tip – Time Waits For Nobody

February 18, 2016
Tick tock, it already happened. How did you spend that time? Were you proud of it? Were you positive or negative? Were you productive or wasteful? Were you pro-active or reflective? If you take all...

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Quick Business Tip – Enough Is Enough

February 4, 2016
When is enough, actually enough? The pursuit of growth and wealth and balance is an interesting conundrum. Some people come from the perspective of “I need to become extremely wealthy” or “I love...

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Quick Business Tip – Ever Wondered Why Your Marketing Hasn’t Worked?

January 27, 2016
Marketing doesn’t work if it fails the basic fundamentals of marketing. Ever heard of the AIDA principle? (Attention, Interest, Desire, Action). Another way of putting it is: Headline, Benefits,...

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