Balance Your Business Goals with Seasonal Fluctuations
Running a seasonal business presents unique challenges, particularly centered around effective sales and meeting customer demands during specific times of the year. However, similar to any business venture, proactive planning is crucial to achieving defined objectives...
6 Technology Trends in 2020 Every Business Owner Must Know
It may be hard to predict what will happen in business in 2020, but betting that technology will continue to advance and influence the marketplace seems like a sure thing. Technological innovations may not be an area in which CEOs and business owners excel, but...
Grant Colburt – Pioneer Poultry
“It’s nice to have a support base, that is going through the same thing and probably has some strength in areas that you don’t. Every single meeting has been valuable, and every meeting has been different. Different topics to discuss with different business owners. ...
6 Tips On Turning Great Employees Into Outstanding Leaders
The current job market is competitive; why make it any more difficult to recruit and retain the right people for your company? Too many businesses focus on getting bodies into open positions, but neglect grooming new hires (as well as veteran employees) for positions...
Maira Ribeiro – MT Solutions Case Study
BUSINESS LEADER TURNS TO THE ALTERNATIVE BOARD BECAUSE “IT FELT LIKE MY HOUSE WAS ON FIRE” SINCE 2007, MAIRA RIBEIRO HAS SERVED AS OPERATIONS MANAGER at MT Solution, based in Clarkston, Georgia. MT Solution is a wholesale business specialising in the...
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...
Michael Spragg – Laser Plumbing Case Study
In 2013, Queensland resident Michael Spragg was already an established business owner, when he was invited to join Laser Plumbing and Electrical, a premier electrical and plumbing contracting network across Australia and New Zealand. Spragg’s...
What Data to Leverage for a Winning Business Strategy
The challenge facing business owners and CEO today isn’t a lack of data to help with key decision-making processes. Instead, it seems virtually impossible to sort through mountains of information in order to find the threads that pertain to business operations,...
Seven Smart Strategies To Maximise Your Network’s Potential
Building and maintaining a professional network is essential for successful business ownership. Strong connections in areas such as development, innovation, and strategic partnerships can significantly enhance business opportunities. However, traditional methods of...
The Changing Patent Landscape – Protect Your Ideas
Protecting Your Ideas May Be Easier Today The decision of whether or not a small business owner should attempt to patent their invention or intellectual property is a difficult one. The pros include limiting the competition and potentially opening additional income...
How to Properly Motivate and Recognise Your Sales Team
Assembling a high-performing sales team is challenging enough, but that’s just the start of any focused sales effort. With quality salespeople in place, the next task is determining how best to motivate and recognise the hard work they do on your company’s behalf....
A Quick Guide to Crafting an Effective Call-to-Action
With all the talk about content marketing and direct mail marketing that businesses must try to keep up with, one essential element sometimes gets lost in the mix. Improving click-through rates to your ads and website is great, but the best marketing and advertising...
How To Use Social Media To Drive Product Innovation
The process of product innovation has, for some time, relied upon a cadre of forward-thinkers within an organisation, and/or soliciting input from customer surveys and focus groups. These methods often prove eventually fruitful, but they can come with extended...
Tips For Setting Effective KPIs
There are many principles for running a strong, thriving business. Key among these guidelines is this: What can be measured should be measured. The data compiled for key business metrics can, as we have said before, “say a lot about what you’re doing...
5 Effective Team Building Activities That Deliver Results
Team building plays a crucial role in shaping a positive and dynamic company culture. These activities are instrumental in fostering collaboration, strengthening connections, improving communication skills, and igniting creativity and innovation—qualities essential...
Change Your Culture to Boost Retention Within your Workplace
These days, employees leave one job and take another for a host of reasons. One reason that should never come up is a company’s toxic culture. In the hunt for talent, businesses can’t afford to lose valued workers because the work environment is dysfunctional,...
How To Contend With The Skilled Worker Shortage As Australian Unemployment Rate Hits 50-Year Low
Recruiting and hiring aren’t easy under the best of conditions. Add to that, a global pandemic, and it’s not surprising that turmoil exists in today’s job market. Still, the numbers are staggering. The Australian unemployment rate is set to hit a 50-year low. While...
Wonderful Ways To Boost Employee Morale
Employee morale has a massive impact on the overall success of your business. When employees are happy, engaged and thriving they are more productive, less likely to call in sick and much less apt to quit their jobs. According to a recent Gallup poll, “highly...
5 Cybersecurity Myths You Need to Debunk
After years of warnings about new types of cyberattacks, we might have become hardened to the real threat still lurking out there. Many small business owners and CEOs believe certain myths about cybersecurity, myths that, if left unchallenged, can damage a...
How to Treat Your Recruiting Process Like a Sales Process
In the fevered competition to recruit and hire “A-player” job candidates, many recruiters and HR departments are turning to a different model to get the job done. Imposing the structure of a sales process offers a new way to look at recruitment in general, and how to...
Leveraging Generational Differences In Your Team
For the first time in the history of the world, the Australian and global workforce consist of five generations of talent; a dynamic that is challenging businesses to rethink how they engage and motivate a multigenerational team of employees. While it would be a...
6 Sales Tips On Getting To “YES”
Getting to “Yes” is every salesperson’s ultimate goal. But so many variables are involved that the process can be cumbersome and aggravating—with no guarantee that the goal will actually be reached. If your sales team is experiencing difficulties achieving this...
A Guide to Setting Employee Goals
In business, everyone should have job-related goals, from the front-line staff to those occupying the highest levels in the organisation. In all cases, the more specific the goals (as opposed to abstract objectives like “boosting sales”), the more effective the...
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Ideas to Create An Engaged Workforce & Efficient Team
I’ve been reading up on employee engagement and have come across some scary statistics about disengagement and lack of passion in the ranks. Here are a few ideas to help get your employees engaged: Give them side projects to do that are of interest to them and have...