In business, there are smart ways to cut your costs and make your business more profitable, and there are foolish ways. As a business coach, I’m all for ‘trimming the fat’ when you are smart about it. Cut the right things and be clever on how you save your pennies. However, when you cut the…
One of a company’s greatest assets is its employees. Training an employee is one of the foremost factors that must be put into force in a business. Huge companies spend billions of dollars on training per year – to make sure their employees are trained to perfection to produce the best results in the workplace. …
Business communication can take many different forms, ranging from verbal to written. Communication can be between employees within the same company, or between a company and its customers, suppliers and partners, or even with a business’ prospects. The reasons for business communication can also differ greatly, but it is usually intended for the benefit of…
So often business success is based on how high your website is ranked and getting onto page one in Google search. This means you want to become Google’s best friend. By ‘loving’ Google, you will be rewarded. Here are tips on how to earn the good favour of Google: …
As a business coach, I am talking to business owners every day and there is definitely a stigma around the word ‘sales’ and about being a ‘salesperson’. Firstly, can I say ‘sales’ is not a dirty word! There is a mindset out there that business owners don’t want to be a salesperson because they draw…
Great customer service is vital for a retail business. Getting customers to your store through promotions, events, activities and a great website can be a head start to get visitors and a register which doesn’t stop. To turn these visitors into customers is the actual goal and more so, have these people coming back time…
As business owners, we all want to maximise our profit. We can certainly charge more, or work harder and increase our sales. We can ‘trim the fat’ and cull other expenses. We can cut electricity power bills. We should always aim to reduce waste. Wasted electricity is just one (of many) areas as business owners…
One of the single most important factor for any business is receiving reviews, recommendations and referrals by their customers on the products or experience they have shared with the business. If there is one reason as to why your business doesn’t receive reviews, it is because you are not asking for it. Read Business Plan…
It’s that time of the year again when you have to reevaluate your business goals. Although not many companies observe this, it is a good business practice to reevaluate and tweak goals in the business in relation to what you have already achieved and what you want to in the coming 6 months. Alternatively, if you…
Technically, a business plan is merely a written guide of the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of a business’ potential. A business plan is defined as a formal statement of business goals, explanations that they are attainable and tactics for achieving them. They are not required to be long, narrative and exhaustive. For small and amateur entrepreneurs,…