Running Own Business

As business owners, we should all spend a percentage of our time working ON our businesses and looking for new opportunities is one thing we should all do regularly. We cannot just assume that whatever we have been doing up until now will always produce us an income. Things change and we must change with […]

Many of you have heard me say the words “Business is not a template” many times. We believe the issues we have are unique to us and to a degree they are. The best way of solving these issues is by getting expert advice and help from someone who has been where we are. We

There are numerous books on goal setting, and one I would highly recommend is “The Seven Habits of highly effective people” by Stephen Covey and draw your attention to the Begin with the end in mind chapter. This is exactly how we should set goals. I thought the easiest way for me to explain how

I would love to know how many businesses know their numbers. I don’t just mean the financials of your businesses but also the numbers relating to sales and orders as well. It constantly amazes me how many businesses bump along from month to month not knowing how much profit they have made or if they

Below are a few keys to success based on my 30 years business ownership experience. Yes of course there will be more but by adopting these it will put you in a far better place to succeed, and I want you to succeed. We all need to succeed. Key 1 –  Associate with successful and

Well, for the topic for this weeks article I have to thank my wife, Denise. We were out walking with our springer on Friday over Swinley Forest and I was talking about everyone being in the same boat with regards the worldwide pandemic we are all going through and Denise said we are all in

A lot of inspiration I get from writing the weekly articles comes from conversations I have in the week leading up to the next article as well as my own personal experience from running a business for over 30 years. A question I have been asked more than once over the last week is “What

We all seem to be coming out of one chapter into another, and we have the power to write our own words of the next chapter of our own personal lives, and I suggest we think very carefully what those words will be. We cannot keep living in the past. What is done is done.

External negative circumstances can really affect our attitudes, and this is why we need to pick the people we associate with so carefully. We all get affected to some degree, and we need people around us who can pull us through the dark times. We all need to see the opportunities from any situation, but

I offer thanks to my good friend Nick Bell for this week’s article. He recommended a film called “The Big Short” – based on a true story from the 2008 recession and it got me thinking about how well set up our businesses are to cope with change and situations outside our control. My guess