Rick Mapperson

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Rick Mapperson is the founder and managing director of Rick Mapperson and Associates ( http://sydneyinsurancebroker.com.au/), a personal insurance brokerage. Rick has been insuring people, particularly small business owners, for twenty years. Rick combines his skills as a licensed Financial Planner and his understanding as the co-founder of an Australian charity focused on families, to understand the best interests of his clients. You can follow Rick on twitter @RickMapperson

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The art of closing sales

How good are you at asking for other people’s money? What I mean is, how good are you at closing sales and actually having people agree to spend money with your business?

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Time to show isolation in business the door

Proving how real the threat of isolation is for small business owners, last week’s post about isolation has seen considerable discussion with many fellow small business owners admitting to feeling alone in their business.

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No small business owner is an island

Spend a lot of time working on your own and you can start to feel cut off from the rest of the world and alone. It’s no secret that the quiet can get to you. For this reason, the risk of isolation for small business owners is very real.

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How to achieve the perfect work life balance at Christmas

Being a small business owner is so glamorous and straightforward, right? You can work whenever you want, determine your income and make your own rules. It’s the lifestyle that everyone wishes they had. Or is it?

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Top tips to improve cash flow in 2011

There are many ways for you to improve your cashflow simply by altering your business processes and taking advantage of things such as interest-free days on credit cards where possible.

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Not all risk is bad

I advocate the umbrella concept of business protection. An umbrella can’t stop the rain from falling, but it will protect you in a storm.

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What will happen to your business if you get seriously ill?

National statistics show that most of these sufferers of the ‘It will never happen to me’ and ‘She’ll be right, mate’ syndromes will experience an insurable event in their lives. More than three in four Australians will be diagnosed with a serious illness in their working life.

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The biggest risk in business is complacency

It has often been said, “If you always do what you have always done, you will always have what you always had”. I don’t agree.

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How to tell if you are being ripped off

I recently met with a client who had been ripped off without even knowing it.

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How to remove economic waste in your business

As a small business owner you would understand the accumulative effect of every dollar. If your business were to save $5 each working day (assuming you work 250 days a year), it will have saved $1,250 – enough for a new laptop.

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Would you fly in a plane without oxygen masks?

None of us would fly on a plane that didn’t have any emergency procedures or oxygen masks in place. Yet when you are the owner of a small business it is easy to put-off installing ‘in-case-of-emergency’ measures.

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