by Jon Dale | Apr 12, 2011 | Marketing, Operations
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... by Jon Dale | Mar 15, 2011 | Operations
The Future! What is your future? How often do you think about the future? Does having children make you more concerned about the future? I know I think and discus the future a lot. It is the last wild unknown frontier! I find the future to be an amazing and... by Jon Dale | Feb 22, 2011 | Operations
More TED inspiration. An idea worth spreading – How to Achieve Work-Life Balance Nigel Marsh (author of Fat, Forty and Fired talks about one of our favourite subjects – how to achieve work-life balance. He makes some good points (and his perfect day sounds pretty... by Jon Dale | Jan 27, 2011 | Marketing, Operations
At the heart of a small business is the business owner, and their personality, values and relationships. People do business with a person, not a business. In most cases it is because of the business owner that customers have made the choice to spend their money with a... by Jon Dale | Nov 29, 2010 | Marketing, Operations
As part of our initial coaching session, we ask business owners if they have an exit strategy. “But I’ve only just started the business, why would I need an exit strategy?” is a common response. So is “They’ll carry me out of here in a box.” Well, macabre as it may... by Jon Dale | Nov 29, 2010 | Operations
The other day I sent a blog post asking for donations of prizes for the breakfast next week that is raising funds for Father Chris Riley’s Youth of the Streets Project. I’d like to thank Maja Kowalsky of Beyond Projex and Nathan Ffolkes of Mojosurf in Byron Bay who...