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3 reasons your original purpose can determine your future
3 reasons your original purpose can determine your future
If you can’t tell someone in two sentences what you do and why, your business is in trouble or heading that way. Sure you may have a solid business structure, you’ve minimised your tax and things might be going well but your sales and/or service...
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A lean business is a healthy business. Keep fit year round
A lean business is a healthy business. Keep fit year round
Diets are temporary by their very nature. They last from point A until point B, they are a means to an end. What’s more they are usually the second last resort before far more drastic measures come into play. The same applies in our businesses when...
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The Sheeran School of Business Success. Because talent is very rarely enough
It’s becoming increasingly obvious, even to those that have joined the party a little late, that Ed Sheeran is a very successful singer songwriter. I heard somewhere that he paid his dues by never refusing an opportunity to play and actually played...
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6 Reasons to book your holiday right now!
6 Reasons to book your holiday right now!
You’ve heard the saying, “make hay while the sun shines”, right? It means that you should work as hard as you can, for as long as you can while the money is still on offer. It makes some sense but workaholics and people who feel they have to keep...
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Share your brain or feel the pain. How to avoid insulting business valuations and low-ball offers
Share your brain or feel the pain. How to avoid insulting business valuations and low-ball offers
It’s a disheartening fact that many people have a fabulous business, with a healthy turnover but routinely get slapped in the face with low valuations. It can be very disappointing and from time to time it can be insulting. How does this happen?...
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How much do you want for your business?
How much do you want for your business?
Every Friday we just want to stop the world for a moment and give you a couple of real tips to think about that will make a real difference to your business and in your life. Now there’s an interesting question to ponder over the weekend. If someone...
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Profits are down soooo… do I take a pay cut? The “business $100 note” can save you from yourself
Profits are down soooo… do I take a pay cut? The “business $100 note” can save you from yourself
Every business faces a period when revenue drops below expectations for a time. Hopefully this occurs at the beginning of your ownership journey, not the end. It’s at this time that knowing your numbers will provide comfort and reasons for optimism,...
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Stay focused on your area of focus
Stay focused on your area of focus
If you are an accountant that delivers excellent service and measures their achievements by how much tax you save people – stop reading now and carry on with what you’re doing. If not, we’d like to echo some advice that came to us from one of our...
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Numbers get bored too. Time to put them to work!
Numbers get bored too.  Time to put them to work!
Accountants often get saddled with the “boring” tag and that may be because the perception is that they deal exclusively with numbers. And not just any numbers but bland inanimate numbers that simply tell you what happened – past tense. These same...
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Before we go… You’re not a bank, so don’t act like one
Before we go… You’re not a bank, so don’t act like one
Every Friday we just want to stop the world for a moment and give you a couple of real tips to think about that will make a real difference to your business and in your life.
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