Tag: Customers

I was doing some research recently and came across some Australian software developers working hard at being big, by helping small businesses.

Many businesses fall into the trap of spending more time and money always trying to find new clients. Unfortunately, lots of businesses are neglecting one of their most valuable assets, their existing clients.

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?

Feeling uneasy about where your business is at financially as the New Year approaches? It’s that time of year again: the last 12 months of dodgy financial decisions come to a head as the Christmas bills start to roll in and the January expenses make their mark on the horizon.

Why should a business buy a CRM? When is the right time for a CRM? Like as business decisions, you need to get some value from a CRM. When the current manual methods become unwieldy then it’s time to take a closer look.

Tall Emu is not in the business of putting people out of work, but it is claimed that its affordable new CRM system is so good it will actually replace staff – or give businesses the chance to move them on to tasks that better utilise their talents.

There are three main factors that differentiate Business-to-Business (B2B) sales from Business-to-Consumer (B2C).

“I never pay retail!” might be the proud catch-cry of the modern consumer, but it can also be the death knell for small businesses.

Businesses leveraging “group coupon” buying sites in Australia such as Jump On It, Spreets and Ouffer has boomed, with all three bringing the Groupon concept from the USA to satisfy local demand.

It’s been a busy few weeks in the Azure Group offices. Unusual for most accountants, but for us, it’s a time when our tax team and accounts teams combine to work on reconciling our client’s accounts, record year-end tax journals as well as collecting and collating compliance files for our clients.