What ROI would you expect on a banana crepe? Much more than you think!

By on 15/12/2011 in Marketing

A friend and I wandered down to our local cafe for lunch, after church on Sunday. Now the local cafe isn’t all that flash, but the occasion was more about catching up than the food, so that was fine. Little did I think that this experience would blow me away…….  But it did! The café [...]

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Is your business paying you 3 incomes? No? Well here’s how to start right now.

By on 05/12/2011 in Financial

As a small business owner you relate to your business in many different ways. My mission today is to convince you to pay yourself for three of those ways. And, having done that, to show you how to calculate them. Now don’t be like that!  I can read your mind you know. And I hear [...]

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Separate your business and personal finances in 6 easy steps

By on 01/12/2011 in Financial

OK so now that you’re convinced you need to separate your business and personal finances let me show you just how easy it is to make it happen. It doesn’t matter if you are just starting out in business or have been in business for a while. It is never too early or too late [...]

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Why you should construct a brick wall between your business and personal money

By on 14/11/2011 in Financial

When you start a business it’s your baby. Many people bootstrap it and without the pressure of external accountability to banks or investors it is tempting to run your personal and business finances as if they are one. Well this is a recipe for disaster at a number of levels. Whether you are just about [...]

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Numbers – they might bore you to death but ignoring them could mean the death of your small business

By on 07/11/2011 in Cashflow, Financial, Marketing

Is this how you feel about numbers? Does the mere contemplation of anything numeric bring you out in a cold sweat and cause your heart to palpitate. Perhaps you know someone who died from over exposure to numbers? Are you convinced that psychiatric wards are full of people who used to be just like you [...]

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What do social media and parking meters have in common?

By on 20/10/2011 in Marketing

Welcome to my new website and my first blog. The other day I found myself channeling my mother as I searched for someone half my age to explain this new fangled technology of social media to me! What has this got to do with parking meters?  Well several years ago (when I was still a wage slave) [...]

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