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Is Your Plan Not To Plan?

The most underrated tool in business for driving up your results - a good plan! A good plan will fit on one page and be the guiding light for everything that happens in the business. If you don't take time...

Bigger Is Not Always Better – Ready For Sale Is!

Business owner: If your only goal is to have a bigger business, because you think bigger is better - think again. This is a great little story about a Mexican villager to get you thinking about "What is the purpose...

Business Owners: Do You Have A Business Or A Practice?

Are You Building Something To Sell? Or do you have practice or a hobby? Many people tell me that they want to sell a business. In reality after asking some pointed questions, it often turns out that they have a...

How Will The Coronavirus Effect Business Values Now & In The Future

John Denton Interviews Business Valuer Chris Milne. Chris has over 25 years of business valuation experience and has never seen anything like this before. After much research Chris has formed his opinions on how this pandemic will affect business values...

Business Owners – Have You Checked Your Vitals Lately?

In our Advanced Mentoring Group meetings, when I ask this question, the answer is usually something like “Vitals, what are you talking about?” or “Yes, my blood pressure is a little high. So what?” According to Wikipedia: “Vital signs (often...

Inch Wide – Mile Deep

Business owners: where is your hungry crowd? The crowd of people who are beating a track to your business to get what it is you are selling them. Often the answer when I ask this question is something like "All...

No-one On Their Death Bed …

"No-one on their death bed ever wished they had spent more time at the office / in the business." This is a fairly well known quote by the late Stephen Covey, author of "The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People"...

You Can’t Count The Apples In A Seed

YOU CAN COUNT THE SEEDS IN AN APPLE BUT YOU CAN’T COUNT THE APPLES IN A SEED Just one good idea can return your business many thousands of dollars in extra profit or reduced costs! Over many years of facilitating...

Save Your Plasma For The Living

Business owners, are you guilty of being a rescuer? Do you try to pump life into your staff, clients, peers and friends? James (Jim) Rohn was a favourite motivational speaker of ours and I had the good fortune to meet...