Tag: Profits

Boosting your bottom lines starts with collaboration between sales and customer teams, writes Ben.

What happened this past week in small business news?

Starting a business is an immensely complex process. It begins with an idea, and evolves into a long struggle of putting that idea into action. You may need to rent a workspace, hire employees, design products or organise services, and establish a working price model—and that’s all before you even open for business. Once everything […]

What motivates an entrepreneur is a matter for the individual. It could be the prospect of making money – and lots of it, or the need to be your own boss. For others however, it’s the need to make big difference – and everything else falls incidental. After nine years in the legal profession, Ugur […]

Nothing new about the ‘doing more with less’ strategy, but what happens when a business operator ‘doing more with less’ decides to ‘do even more with even less?’

According to the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s most recent small business survey, investment in plants and equipment has dropped to its lowest level in five years. In addition, investment in buildings and structures is also on the slide.

It’s alright to have a vision for your store, but you won’t get very far if employees don’t share, and believe in that vision. Richard Carter gives some tips on how to make sure employees understand where the company is headed. Every year, we spend thousands of dollars trying to get employee’s motivated to improve […]