Scaling Up Businesses

Unlocking the Hidden Value in Your Business: The Power of Intellectual Property

01/03/2023

Does Your Business Have Intellectual Property? Most small businesses with profit under $500,000 get valued using an adjusted maintainable earnings approach for a single owner-operator. But there’s often a layer of “hidden value” sitting in plain sight: intellectual property (IP). What Counts As Intellectual Property? Intellectual property covers any original creation of the mind — […]

Is Your Plan Not To Plan?

16/11/2022

If you fail to plan then you plan to fail. However, even a great plan needs to be executed.

You Can’t Count The Apples In A Seed

07/10/2022

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! Over many years of facilitating business owner cohort groups, I have seen some amazing financial gains and changes to businesses because they implemented […]

How To Make More Sales In Tough Times

07/09/2022

How to make more sales in tough economic conditions? You adopt the old black hen philosophy. I can’t credit the author of this little poem / parable because I have had it for so long that the source, if I ever had it, is long forgotten. However, it is a great little story! I always […]

Is Your Business Life Giving You The Personal Life You Want?

31/08/2022

Is your business life giving you the personal life you want? Do you feel you are just living to work and not having a life. To get out of this cycle you need to take ACTION.

Inch Wide Mile Deep

24/08/2022

Business owners: where is your hungry crowd? Are you marketing in a niche an inch wide mile deep? Where is 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 small and […]