Archive for the ‘Business planning’ Category

Top 5 newsletters from 2009.

If you haven’t checked out our latest newsletter - you can do so by clicking here. 
We covered all the best newsletters for 2009.  We also included a quick reference index of the remaining newsletters from last year.  Take a few minutes to check it out.  You might find something that will make a big difference to [...]

Recapping 2009’s top posts

If this is your first week back from holiday .. welcome!  We hope you spent time over the Xmas & New Year period relaxing and revitalising ready for a fantastic 2010.
Here’s a quick recap of some of our top posts last year: 
Is busyness a sign of success?
We discuss why running round like a “blue ass fly”, [...]

It’s still not too late to make sure 2010 is your best year yet!

Firstly, we hope you had a wonderful and relaxing time over the Christmas & New Year break, and that you’re ready to go full steam into 2010. 
If you read our previous post, it talked about getting sorted prior to Christmas and getting on top of your planning for 2010. 
I guess we can forget about Christmas because that’s been [...]

Interested in 2010 being a great year?

Christmas.  Lots of things to do, gifts to buy, functions to attend, family to see (or avoid ..).  Yet at the back of our minds is that yet another year is drawing to a close … fast.  This also brings to mind the year soon upon us - 2010.  What’s that year going to bring?  What have [...]

Are you solving the problem …. or just the symptom?

If you’ve got a problem in your business and you didn’t see our latest newsletter - then you’d better take 5 minutes to read it.  We talked about solving problems.  More importantly - we talked about making sure it was in fact the problem that you solved, and not just the symptom. 
We also talked about cashflow - [...]

Interested in taking your business from average to extraordinary?

In case you didn’t read the latest issue of our newsletter, we talked about four ideas on how to move your business from being just a good business, to being a great business  -  ideas that aren’t too hard to implement either.   If you’re interested in moving your business from being average to extraordinary, how about taking 5 [...]

Is “busyness” a sign of success?

When you ask people how they are, how many times do they answer  …. “really busy!”, “run off my feet” or some similar version?
If instead, they answered “not much happening - how about we skip out for the afternoon and play a game of tennis” - would you think their business was in serious trouble?  Probably.
As a business [...]

Are the dark years here?

The last post talked about how the economy seemed to be improving … well, feels like it is in any event.  I’m wondering … am I pulling the wool over my eyes?   In this little corner of the world we’re a little more

Are we springing out of recession-thinking?

Have you noticed how the daylight is stretching a bit further now?  It’s no longer pitch black in the morning when we wake, and the sun seems to linger a bit longer in the evenings.  The weather is milder too.  It really feels like Spring!  (come on Summer!!)
It seems, at the same time, there’s more [...]

True Story: The lawyer and the legal agreement

Having entered into a new relationship and just purchased a new house, our client needed a few legal agreements - not the least of which was a relationship property agreement.  The lawyer, however, was indignant when we questioned