by Jon Dale | Nov 30, 2008 | Operations
It’s an oft-neglected question – “why am I in business?” Many of us beaver away in our businesses without ever really questioning our motives. We almost assume that we want to be in business ourselves and that the reasons that led us to start off on our own way back...
by Jon Dale | Nov 29, 2008 | Sales
Remember the washing machine analogy? Reducing costs is an important way to boost your profits. There are the obvious candidates of paying less for the things you buy but another cost is the money you are owed but have not yet been paid. It’s like acting as a...
by Jon Dale | Nov 28, 2008 | Marketing
Sam joined Small Fish in February, mostly as a favour to me – to help me get a handle on my administration. She has since trained as a Business Coach and has started applying her extensive knowledge of marketing, customer service, procedures and accounts to our...
by Jon Dale | Nov 26, 2008 | Marketing
We’ve spent some time, with help from Baz Beckley of one Eyed Dog Designs and Mark Barrett of Created Image Marketing, redeveloping our website. We wanted to turn it from an online brochure (which is what it was, really) into something that was more useful to us...
by Jon Dale | Nov 25, 2008 | Operations
As the new business writer for Our Manly, I’ve been charged with writing articles that are interesting and informative, not too long (or boring) and that don’t promote my business too obviously. So here goes…………… I thought I’d start...
