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Interest Rates In Asset Finance Are On The Rise
Interest Rates In Asset Finance Are On The Rise
Traditionally I would say we’ve been in a declining rate market for between roughly six to eight years. Rates have been coming off, which is great news - everyone keeps being told to renegotiate their rates around home loans and all these other...
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Why Every Business Needs A War Chest
Why Every Business Needs A War Chest
We strongly recommend that every business has a war chest - there's many authors, business writers and even personal finance writers who suggest something like this as well. A war chest is basically an emergency fund, where you've got - for example...
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The Importance Of Financial Forecasting
The Importance Of Financial Forecasting
Natasha Hawker: When we spoke last time, you talked a lot about the need to plan and forecast - Is this still what small-to-medium businesses, and, let's face it, big businesses as well, should be focused on?
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Why Businesses Stay Stuck In The Startup Phase
Why Businesses Stay Stuck In The Startup Phase
When you first build your business, you’re going to experience the first step, which is what we call the “start-up phase”.
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The #1 Challenge For Most Entrepreneurs
The #1 Challenge For Most Entrepreneurs
For most business owners/entrepreneurs, their biggest challenge is scaling their business. Now, a lot of people don't understand what scaling really means - the goal is to build an asset.
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Why Acquire A Business?
Why Acquire A Business?
I was speaking with a business owner recently and we'd had discussions around prepping for exit over a few months, and I'd just mentioned acquisition, and he'd been thinking about it anyway. So last week, he spoke to me and he said, "Do you know...
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Let's Talk About The Tax Impact Of Covid Stimulus Measures
Let's Talk About The Tax Impact Of Covid Stimulus Measures
Lets talk about the tax impact of COVID stimulus measures.
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Why You Shouldn't DIY Your Bookkeeping
Why You Shouldn't DIY Your Bookkeeping
Business owners shouldn’t DIY their own bookkeeping. Similarly, I'm not the best person to go and rewire my house for electricity or the wires. I'm probably going to end up killing myself if I was to do that, or harm my family, or the house would...
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How To Know If Your Product Will Sell
How To Know If Your Product Will Sell
It is totally okay for you to go out there with a product that you're learning how to do - and the way to do it is really, really simple: it’s signal. Don't put any more work into it. Don’t say: "I need to get the web page right” or, "I need to have...
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The Wrong Business Structure Will Eat Into Your Profits (Sharon Cliffe Podcast)
The Wrong Business Structure Will Eat Into Your Profits (Sharon Cliffe Podcast)
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