Cyber Security: Why Small Business Is Often Threatened And How To Protect Yourself
We’ve all read with shock and horror about large cyber-attacks such as the breaches at Optus, Telstra and even Netflix but what if we told you that the most frequent threats have been to small and medium-sized businesses? In fact, more and more small businesses are...
What Baby Boomers Get Wrong About Millennial’s
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, millennial’s will take over 50% of the U.S. workforce in the coming five years. As more millennial’s filter into the workforce, it’s becoming more and more important that Boomers learn to work with...
Who Do You Turn to For seeking Good Business Advise?
It’s helpful for any business owner to have someone they can turn to for business advice. In my experience, I’ve found that discussing your business issues with a person, or in a group of like-minded individuals, is particularly helpful when overcoming business...
7 Tips for Managing Millennial’s on your Sales Team
We often hear that millennial employees are a breed apart, and require a shift in management style and perspective. The same can be said about a millennial sales team and what’s needed to effectively manage and leverage their particular outlook and talents. How do you...
Is Poor Leadership Damaging Your Company’s Culture?
As the CEO or business owner, your job is crucial in setting the tone for your company culture. These five pitfalls can lead to discontent, high employee turnover and a negative culture. Your role as CEO or business owner goes beyond planning for the future and...
A Quick Guide To Effective Chain Supply Management
Ensuring a disruption-free supply chain is (or should be) a key goal for every CEO and business leader. This facet of operations has become even more prominent, due to supply chain troubles surfacing within the past several months. According to Logistics Plus,...
How to be an Effective Manager in a Small Business
Article by Ronita Mohan People are what make up a business and managing them is one of the key tasks of any business owner or managerial level employee. Being an effective manager at a small business requires you to understand your working style and that of the people...
Dealing with Grief in the Workplace
One of the most difficult things a leader will have to deal with in the workplace is the death of an employee. Whether the result of ongoing health complications or a tragic accident, a death in the company requires nuanced, careful handling. In recent times, I have...
How Becoming A Mentor Can Make You A Better Leader
Chances are, most successful individuals have benefited from being mentored by a CEO, owner or another business leader at some time in their professional career. If you’re among this group, you’ll likely remember how valuable the experience proved to be. Generally...
EBITDAC: What is Your Business Worth Now?
Several friends have sent me a picture of an EBITDAC coffee mug this week. As it states, EBITDAC stands for Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, Amortisation, and Coronavirus. Will this be the new measure of cash flow for valuing your business? A bleak joke,...
How to Generate Word-of-Mouth Sales Referrals
Think about how you choose to make your purchase. There’s research you do online, or perhaps you’ve bought a product or service from a particular company before, and you’re comfortable doing so again. But if you wish to buy something or get a service from a business...
Who Do You Turn to For Business Advice?
Article by Phil Spensieri, The Alternative Board York Region It’s helpful for any business owner to have someone they can turn to for business advice. In my experience, I’ve found that discussing your business issues with a person, or in a group of like-minded...
How The Alternative Board Helped Kay Godfrey Be Accountable And Stop Feeling Lonely
Kay Godfrey is a professional bookkeeper and BAS agent. She lives on Sydney’s Northern Beaches and loves what she does for a living. Her business is called First Class Accounts Mona-Vale, where she has a team of three people who work with her. She explains: “I take...
How to Lead During a Crisis
Working with a remote workforce requires different management and leadership. During the current Coronavirus pandemic, many members of your team will be experiencing mixed emotions from anxiety to worry. Some will be highly distracted with their thoughts and concerns,...
Great Tips On How To Lead During A Crisis
Working with a remote workforce requires different management and leadership. Whether it’s during the current Coronavirus pandemic, the floods battering the east coast, or the war further afield, many members of your team will be experiencing mixed emotions from...
Is Poor Leadership Damaging Your Company Culture?
As the CEO or business owner, your job is crucial in setting the tone for your company culture. These five pitfalls can lead to discontent, high employee turnover and a negative culture. Your role as CEO or business owner goes beyond planning for the future and...
3 Ways to Make Your Business Agile
Whether your business has been positively or negatively affected by the impact of the pandemic, it has been impacted, and your business is not the same as it was in early March. Hopefully, during the last six months, you’ve taken some time to create a contingency plan...
3 Technology Hacks To Improve Workplace Productivity
Ironically, technology enables us to get our work done anywhere and become more productive but also takes us down many time-wasting activities and paths. When we are on our devices, it is easy to get sidetracked and be unproductive. However, the good news is that most...
How To: The Best Ways to Secure Capital for Your Business
[column_wrapper][two_thirds] Best Ways to Secure Capital for Your Business White Paper While small business owners have a wider range of options for financing new businesses and expanding existing businesses, what we learned is that sound planning is still a key...
Email Marketing in the Age of COVID-19
In spite of all the changes rocking the business landscape, experts agree that email marketing remains a consistently effective way of reaching customers. In part, this is because companies can incorporate wording that speaks to improving the lives of the target...
How To Enhance Your Workplace To Improve Productivity
When was the last time you thought about changing the design of your workplace? If you feel there’s potential for greater productivity among your employees, take a close look at how your office or workspace is presently configured. This design might just be limiting...
SEO Tips For Your Business Website
Why is search engine optimisation so important for your website? One of the lessons learned from the recent Covid-19 pandemic concerns the need for businesses to boost their online presence. Right now, SEO can help you achieve this goal. Here are some SEO strategies...
7 Ways to Market your Business for Next to Nothing
Marketing need not be a mystery or expensive. For many business owners who are tightening their belts and reducing expenses, marketing expenditures are often the first to get trimmed. The truth is, marketing should always be a constant, no matter the economic...