Is Your Hourly Rate Enough?
Do you feel like you are NOT earning enough for all the hard work you do in your small business? Are your earning requirements fair and reasonable? If you answered yes to both questions, then maybe you need to put your prices up! Many small businesses charge too little for the products or services they […]
Noreena Hertz: How to use experts – and when not to
Another TED video where an economics professor and adviser to the UK Prime Minister (an expert herself) is advising us not to trust everything the experts tell us. It’s a thought-provoking discussion and one that feels right to me. Too often do we hear people not thinking for themselves and relying on someone else to […]
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I wonder if you can help us out……… We send our Fish Tales every week. Some of you read it and even respond. Others not. We’d like to make it more useful and interesting to you. What would you like to see from us? Please post comments below. Thoughts: • Free online business coaching – […]
Should you manage your staff?
I recently had a meeting with one of my clients- OfficePCs who provide awesome IT support of hardware and software to businesses within the ACT region. Some work was being completed on improving some structured processes around the people management in the business. For this task, I was fortunate to be able to leverage the […]
Get your business online
If your business doesn’t already have its own website – then you absolutely must read this. Google and MYOB have joined forces to create Getting Aussie Business Online with the mission to help Australian businesses to benefit from the opportunities of the Internet. As they say, a website today is like a phone – every […]
Happy Workers are Productive Workers
The notion that “happy workers are productive workers” seems obvious at first but was developed over 70 years ago in the 1930’s and 40s by researchers conducting the Hawthorne studies in Western Electrics. It was an interesting and revolutionary experiment at the time to determine if production in a factory changed under high or low […]
Why The Best Small Business Ideas Fail!
There are many statistics on the number of small businesses that never make it past the first year of trade. I have seen figures as high as 90% quoted! Why do some of the best business ideas fail miserably? I am sure some are just great idea’s that never quite translate to the consumer. For […]
Budgeting – Keeping Your Business On Target!
Many small businesses only think about doing a budget when they have cash flow problems. A financial budget is like a financial scorecard for your business to which you can compare actual results throughout the year. Without it, how will you know where your business is financially? Not having a realistic budget is a bit […]
Focus On Your Strengths
Many of us are familiar with the process of an annual performance appraisal. I was taught to follow this format: • Look back • Review the good and bad • Look forwards • Set goals, focus on areas for improvement Sounds like a plan! Perhaps there is another way? Consider this approach: • Look back […]
Meetings!
Are you lonely??? Don’t like working on your own? Hate making decisions? Then call a MEETING!! You can… SEE people DRAW flowcharts FEEL important FORM subcommittees IMPRESS your colleagues MAKE meaningless recommendations ALL on COMPANY TIME!!! MEETINGS… THE PRACTICAL ALTERNATIVE TO WORK
Illawarra Business Woman Of the Year 2011
Illawarra Mercury 31st March 2011 “CARMEN Rudd and Natalie Viselli have been named as the Illawarra Business Woman of the Year and Illawarra Young Business Woman of the Year. The prestigious awards were announced when Illawarra Women in Business (IWIB) directors Glenda Papac and Delyse Del Turco yesterday hosted the third annual IWIB Illawarra Business […]
Increasing Revenue – Using The Sales Funnel
One of the Drivers of Profitability is finding ways to increase Revenue (often referred to as Turnover, or Income, or Sales). It is possible to increase sales by understanding and improving the sales process that exists within your business. When I refer to your sales process, I am referring to the process that starts with […]