Is Your Business Financially Robust? Protect Your Business With Alternative Forms Of Cash Flow Finance! by Mark Redman of XL Finance

The on-going “euro crisis” has the potential to make borrowing money from the banks even more difficult. At a time when many businesses are struggling for working capital this could be more potential bad news for many businesses. The good news however, is that there are smaller and independent finance companies willing and able to [...]

10 Top Tips To Consider When Arranging and End Of Year Party by Lisa Gibson from Triple Three Solutions

1. The invite Remember that Christmas is a Christian holiday, so do not insist that all staff attend the Christmas party.  An ‘end of year party’ may be more appropriate, but do not pressure someone to attend if they don’t want to on the grounds of religion. If the event is out of hours, also [...]

Ten Top Tips for SEO Success by Steve Bower from Seven Communications

This is the first in a series of website guides, and the topic that everyone is interested in currently is: “How to I get to the top of Google?”. So this is a valiant but vain effort to condense my entire SEO expertise into series of short articles. Some of these tips you can manage [...]

Improving Systems

Always try to find better ways of doing things. If you are able to cut down a process because it is going to save you time or it is going to make the process more efficient then do it. Remember that improving means that there is a better way of doing them and hence you [...]

Managing Internal Politics

Every workplace has internal politics, even the ones that say that they don’t. Internal politics can be a negative or a positive contribution to the business depending on how they are executed in your workplace. To get an insight on how the politics are run in your business you need to identify the possible political [...]

Improve Productivity

Improving productivity means that you are going to be measuring the amount of output per unit of input from the business. Defining this in a more understandable term, traditionally means that you are going to assess productivity by measuring the dollar value of output against each pound of input (labour and capital expenses included). This [...]

Marketing Magic Comes Before Sales

If you are like most business owners when it comes to marketing, you’ll be unsure of what works and what doesn’t or at worst, you’ll have a long list of things that don’t work because you’ve wasted thousands over the years. Well here are a couple of key facts to help us feel confident about [...]

Your Business and the Business Life Cycle

Your business goes through several life cycle stages, and different financial strategies are appropriate at each or the four distinct states. Use the Business Life Cycle Checklist below to identify your company’s current position in the business life cycle and better understand the issues that you’ll be dealing with in each phase. 1. Startup/Emerging – [...]

Don’t Become A Statistic

Running a business is much like being the captain of a ship, but too often we don’t have the basic navigation tools so that when we are blown of course we can find our way back. In the case of a ship the most basic equipment required would be charts and a compass. In a [...]