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21.01.2022 Planning360. Sunshine Coast, Wednesday March 18. The simplest way to plan any business so you actually end up where you wanted. Business planning is possibly the most neglected and misunderstood part of just about any business. According to statistics, less than 17% of businesses do any form of planning and probably many of them dont do them the right anyway, possibly never look at it again once its done and as a result, miss the opportunities of really taking a business to... the next level. As has been said many times, business owners "dont plan to fail, they just fail to plan"! If the objective is to actually get a business growing, you need to strategically plan and make it as simple as possible as well. EzyPlan is the solution. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/planning360-march-maroochyd

21.01.2022 Find out how easy it is to get any business growing easier, better and faster. Join us Thursday August 20th at Caloundra for our next FREE workshop, JumpStart360. Its the A,B,C of business growth. Attract, Build relationships and keep Customers better, so businesses grow. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/jumpstart360-august-find-ou

20.01.2022 There are three types of businesses out there at the moment. 1: Those that have just shut. Its all too hard. Come back when its over and try and start again! 2: Those that are trying to plod through, doing the same thing just less of it. 3: And those that have adapted, identified new opportunities, tried something new to see what happens, add value, improve service all in continuing to build the brand, the relationship and tell everyone, we arent going anywhere. Were her...e for you. Adapt, get better, grow. Mybusinessnow.com.au

20.01.2022 Your customers get bored. You can have the best product at a great value for money price and people will still leave. They get bored of you and your sameness. Whatever you do you need to refresh everything at some point. Your marketing, ways to use whatever it is you do, even the brand. Statistics tell us that even refreshing your brand and logo can improve sales by 10%. I had a cafe client in Adelaide that had dropped his coffee supplier after 15 years loyal service for no other reason than another guy came in with new posters and ideas. His product and price were the same. The customer got bored! Keep it fresh, keep your clients interested.

19.01.2022 What are the biggest challenges for business in 2020? Take our 30 second survey and find out. Without doubt, business and the way we do it, in order to get a good result, is changing. Its different from how it was 20 years ago, 10 years ago and even only a couple of years ago and it can certainly be a puzzle to know what goes where, if you cant actually see what the end result is supposed to look like. Its not good enough to just have a great product to guarantee success...Continue reading

18.01.2022 Real business growth is all about how to attract, sell and keep more clients. Join us at SellServiceGrow360 on Wednesday February 12th at our first Lunch, learn and grow event for the year at Club Kawana and find out how easy it is to attract more clients, convert better and keep them coming back more often. #mybusinessnow #thinkbusinessgrowth https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/sellservicegrow360-find-out

17.01.2022 There are 2 reasons that businesses dont grow. 1: They have no selling skills or basic selling structure 2: They have no service experience process. No followup, engagament or experience. Find out how easy it could be to really grow any business, by simply getting the sales and service systems of the business right and then watch it grow!... https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/salesservicegrow360-get-you

17.01.2022 How do you make social media work? Here are 4 ideas that you should at least try and maximise before you get to bogged down. Marketing in general is the most confusing part of business and thats obvious when you know that currently businesses spend under 1% on their marketing and advertising budget, as opposed to 5% plus only a few years ago. For many, its all too complicated and social media and Facebook are a big part of the problem. I attended another Facebook for busine...Continue reading

17.01.2022 ReThinkBusiness. Join us at Caloundra, Wednesday July 15. How to get your business growing easily. Just do what the others dont! Businesses that grow, is what 99% of business owners want. Yet why is that most business owners miss the things that in fact actually grow a business. Over the last few months, businesses around the world, have take the biggest financial hit they are probably ever likely to have (and hopefully will never have again) and in fact it hit 69% of Austra...lian businesses. ReThinkBusiness is about four simple things to get back on track fast. (And it doesnt include social media or your website!) https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/rethinkbusinessgrowth-four-

17.01.2022 The objective should be to get customers coming back. It’s up to seven times more expensive to generate a new one! The WOW factor is part of that, getting a customer to go WOW, I wasn’t expecting that (in a good way) so that the only person that they want to buy from again is you. But if there’s no WOW, what sets you apart? And you don’t want it to be because you’re the cheapest!

17.01.2022 Business52, number 8: Followup. Simple, easy, quick tips to uncomplicate business growth under any situation. Mybusinessnow.com.au

16.01.2022 Cash flow really is king! The question that's going through many business owners’ minds right now is, how do I never feel this vulnerable ever again? What we are going through now, has the potential to happen again. So, what businesses must do now, more than ever before, is eliminate that vulnerability as best they can. I have no idea what the exact number is, but according to statistics from years of data, well over 80% of businesses fail in the first five years and as a res...Continue reading

15.01.2022 The elevator pitch! The ability to simply and succinctly tell someone in 30 seconds what you do and why they should deal with you. It never ceases to amaze me how many people cant do this without babbling on for ages! Everyone in the team, needs the ability to know what to say, when someone says, "what do you do and why should I use you"? It takes practice. Get together with your team, work out what it will be, write it down, practice it and get it right. Theres nothing better than having someone tell you what they do well! Get your elevator pitch sorted.

15.01.2022 Get through this, with MybusinessnowBoardroom. Businesses right now and more than ever, need the skills, strategies and support to get through this and come out the end stronger. Now weve made it even easier. Free business training, focus, solutions, support. MybusinessnowBoardroom. Get through this and come out the other end stronger and better businesses. Monthly online workshops, weekly strategies and ongoing support to protect and grow businesses now. https://mybusinessnow.com.au/the-boardroom

14.01.2022 Staff (you) are the front line to any business. They need skills to sell and service, otherwise they could destroy that business, regardless of the times!

14.01.2022 If there’s nothing that your business does that makes it standout, something that sets it apart from everyone else doing the same thing, you don’t have any competitive advantage. You don’t want it to be price, it can be, but then just get ready for the constant price discounting wars. (There’s always someone that will do what you do cheaper!) Just look at the pizza industry. It can work, but you need to sell a lot. Find something that you or your businesses does that’s so di...fferent, that no one else could ever do, that then becomes the reason people want to deal with you and not someone else. Not the price or your location. And by the way, it can’t be we give great service, everyone says that. Just ask yourself this question. What makes us different and if you can’t identify that, come up with something right now! What is your unique point of difference? Let us know.

14.01.2022 JumpStart360: SellServiceGrow. Find out how to attract, convert and keep more clients this year. Build any business easier, simpler, faster, better in 2020 by improving 3 key drivers. There are 3 reasons that businesses dont grow. 1: They miss fundamental basic attraction opportunities 2: They have no selling skills, dont know how to convert or have any basic selling structure... 3: They have no service experience process. No followup, engagement or experience. Find out how easy it could be to really grow any business, by simply getting the sales and service systems of the business right, that 99% of businesses miss and then watch it grow. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/jumpstart360-sellservicegro

14.01.2022 How do you get customers coming back again and again? Just ask them! The simplest way to grow any business according to just about any data or statistic ever, is hang onto your customers! Thats it, no rocket science there. Just give them a service experience that they wont forget, that makes them come back and refer others too. An increase of only 5% in client retention can impact the bottom line by 125%. Like to know more? Click on the link below for a copy of ServiceXperience360 and our 10 point CX checklist. Just one thing, could dramatically grow your business. https://form.jotform.co/90847238322863

14.01.2022 Regardless of the economic environment, if people dont know you exist, in 99% of cases businesses will struggle. Now, is no different and even more so. Attract, awareness, interest.

13.01.2022 Positive cashflow is the solution to real business growth. But if there's one thing that's stood out above anything else over the last couple of months, it's the cashflow vulnerability of so many businesses. Far too many businesses simply run week to week, or even week to the past week. They struggle to make enough money to pay last weeks bills, hence the incredibly high insolvency rate in businesses. Cashflow is king, but the objective is have more left over at the end of ea...ch week, month or year, than you started with. Statistics tell us that less than 17% of businesses do even the simplest form of business planning, and even less actually look at it again and you can bet that even less again think any more about their cashflow other than what's in the bank account now and then, if there is any. (And even then they sometimes don't, because they don't like what they see!) If business owners don't plan, or have even the simplest strategy of how they'll get to their objective, it probably won't happen through luck alone! It's all about cashflow! Mybusinessnow and CashFlow360

13.01.2022 If theres nothing that your business does that makes it standout, something that sets it apart from everyone else doing the same thing, you dont have any competitive advantage. You dont want it to be price, it can be, but then just get ready for the constant price discounting wars. (Theres always someone that will do what you do cheaper!) Just look at the pizza industry. It can work, but you need to sell a lot. Find something that you or your businesses does thats so di...fferent, that no one else could ever do, that then becomes the reason people want to deal with you and not someone else. Not the price or your location. And by the way, it cant be we give great service, everyone says that. Just ask yourself this question. What makes us different and if you cant identify that, come up with something right now! What is your unique point of difference? Let us know.

11.01.2022 Follow up, reconnect, keep in touch. The single easiest way to grow any business is to sell again to someone thats bought or enquired before. Are you looking for customers, more sales or just grow the business? Then just pickup the phone! The single biggest missed opportunity in 99% of businesses is they never following up. Ever! When you look at the statistics that have been done over and over again, you see a trend and regardless of whether the numbers are right or even ac...curate, it doesnt matter. The trend always looks the same. 48% of sales are never followed up. 72% never go back after a second contact On average it takes five contacts to make a sale. 99% of business dont follow up anything. A sale, an enquiry a walk-in. Nothing. And yet 80% of sales decisions are based on the first person to get back to the enquirer! I dealt with a business a year ago, that had been in direct sales for over 30 years. I walked into their office and noticed piles and piles of archive boxes stacked against the wall. I asked whats in those. They contained thousands of old fashioned 3 X 5 handwritten cards of every sale they had ever made. No CRM system, no computer database, just the cards. I asked do you ever call past clients back. No never, why? How many of those boxes would contain a name of someone that would buy again, how much could they have bought over the years, how many referrals? Its not unusual and it never ceases to amaze me, how many businesses dont have the data, or worse have it, but do nothing with it, yet keep advertising, or wondering why business isnt going that well, when the answer is right there in the past client list (somewhere). In tough economies like we have now, theres never a more important time to get the fundamentals of business growth right. Keep selling. Get on the phone. Dont stop, its a numbers game. Just get clear about the numbers. If you have salespeople, keep training them, dont stop, manage and support them weekly. And lastly, service those clients like theyve never been serviced before. Its not about one spam email after another, pick up the phone, build relationships and sell more and more. Building successful and strong businesses isnt complicated, but you cant do it by eliminating the fundamentals that worked then and still work now. ThinkBusinessGrowth. Think Mybusinessnow

11.01.2022 All it takes is a freckle! Ive talked many times about the need to standout, have a wow factor, do something totally unique that the other guy doesnt do and like 99% of businesses, most simply rely on price or convieniece as the differentiating factor. Well thats all great until someone drops their price or moves in next door! Like most, my wife and I like a coffee now and then, often grab a takeaway and go and sit somewhere. Coffee is pretty much coffee, whether you buy i...t in a cafe and pay anything up to $4:50 plus or from a convenience store at $1, theres not a lot of difference. Yet still, theyre generally busy, but dont all make money. Another has just closed its doors this week where I live. Last week we bought our usual coffee, and on paying, the lady behind the counter (using tongs) put a chocolate freckle on top of each cup. We both looked at each other and went wow, fantastic, "havent had a freckle for years"! How good is this! That was from a one dollar coffee place! The cost of the freckle? Maybe one cent! What does it take to standout, do something a little different. I know of a coffee shop a few years ago, that started putting tiny little biscuits and cakes on top of their coffee, people loved it. It went so well, they sold the cafe and now only make these little cakes. But still, 99% of cafes have no differentiating factor. Nothing. Its just another coffee! The trouble with our freckle coffee is it stopped, she doesnt do it anymore. Why I dont know. Was the one cent just too much? Or did she just not get what she was doing? There are around 20 to 30 cafes and places you can get coffee where I live, probably the same where you are. The coffees the same, some better, some not so good, but all around $4:50. What could that little "titbit" do, to attract more customers that kept coming back, as opposed to just the coffee alone. (You could get that anywhere!) People want more than just the product or service you sell, they want an experience, they want to be wowed. They want the freckle. Mybusinessnow is all about helping businesses not only run better and get a much better result, but identify the wow that gets people buying from you and not someone else. Think different about what you do in your business this year. ThinkBusinessGrowth. Mybusinessnow.

10.01.2022 Join the movement to grow your business better. Its simpler than most think. Building your business that is! But if nothing changes, nothing will ever change! There has never been a more important time to get the basics right first, and grow from there, than right now. These are tough times for business! ... The truth is that most businesses miss the simple things and try and grow and attract more clients by simply spending more and more on marketing and advertising and its not always the solution. Yes you need to attract clients, but that may not only be as a result of advertising. Its the brand, image, the service experience, the followup. Dont get that right at every contact point, and you lose points! The more points you lose at each contact point, the less chance to ever get those potential customers back! (And they have long memories!) The simplest way to grow any business is through better Attraction, Build better relationships, keep those Customers longer. Thats how you build any business better, easier and faster. The A,B,Cs of building any business. Join the ThinkBusinessGrowth movement. Like the page and register on the link below to receive our ABC of simple business growth as well as free weekly business growth tips. https://form.jotform.co/90707847420863 Business growth is easy, you just need to know what to do first! Welcome to Mybusinssnow Uncmplicating business growth.

10.01.2022 How do you make a business grow or at the very least get a better result than last year? The answer is simple: 1: Attract more customers to the business. 2: Convert better so that the inquiries, become customers. 3: Then get those customers coming back more often, spending more and referring others.... Real business growth is all about how to attract, sell and keep more clients. Join us at SellServiceGrow360 on Wednesday February 12th at our first Lunch, learn and grow event for the year at Club Kawana and find out how easy it is to attract more clients, convert better and keep them coming back more often. #mybusinessnow #thinkbusinessgrowth https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/sellservicegrow360-find-out

10.01.2022 The four "not so secrets" to business growth. When I sold my last business back in 2015 and then spent the next two plus years consulting, I used time in between to look closely at where businesses were going wrong. As obvious as these sound, businesses should focus attention on four simple things. * Attract as many clients as possible * Get those clients coming back... * Spending more each purchase and * Referring others that do the same. But its amazing how that focus just doesnt exist. Instead, they tend to worry about simply making one sale after another, without focusing attention on how you do it better, smarter and keep that client coming back. In September 2015 I wrote the first of many blogs about business growth that talked about five key drivers that every business misses to some degree, if not all completely. * Create awareness, attraction and interest. Project an image that stands out from the rest so that people see, find you and want to deal with you. * Develop selling skills in the team. The ability to communicate well is critical to not losing enquiries and customers, so they can followup and hold onto longer. * Service experience. Not just customer service. Its about engagement, energy and ongoing relationship that gets them back and referring others. * Marketing is confusing and getting more so, but you still need to do it. Test and measure everything, dont just keep posting once a week on Facebook and think your done, because you have 100 friends. Marketing is simply about attracting customers, then getting them to buy. Nothing else. * Staff training and support. 51% of staff are looking for another job and around 80% are disengaged but will hang around! Give them the skills they need, ensure they know what to do and support and manage. But then also treat them well with rewards and recognition that encourages them to perform as expected. Nothing has changed in regard to business fundemantals over the last five years, including how most businesses dont do them. Businesses fallover rates wont change or get better. (Its currently 92.3% of new businesses that fail in under three years! not 80% like five years ago!) and if long term corporate businesses like Jeanswest and Jamie Oliver restaurants can go down, it would be fare to ask what hope has anyone got? The answer there is simple, they missed the fundamentals too. * Evolution, evolve a little! Businesses need to change and get better, customers get bored. (How many jeans shops look exactly the same?) * Standout have a wow factor, otherwise theyre all the same and differentiated by price only. * And engagement. The secret is the client experience, engagement and energy. Ensure clients have a great experience, not just a great product and theyll be back more and more, spend more and refer their friends. Business growth is simple, but if nothing changes, nothing changes. ThinkBusinessGrowth in 2020. Think change, think different, think grow. Mybusinessnow.com.au

09.01.2022 The objective should be to get customers coming back. Its up to seven times more expensive to generate a new one! The WOW factor is part of that, getting a customer to go WOW, I wasnt expecting that (in a good way) so that the only person that they want to buy from again is you. But if theres no WOW, what sets you apart? And you dont want it to be because youre the cheapest!

08.01.2022 Communication is so important with business. Everyone in the team. Owners, managers, front line and anyone else all need to be able to communicate well, if they cant, youll lose customers. Its not just about what it is you do. If you cant tell or talk to someone, articulate what it is you do easily, youve got a problem.

07.01.2022 Service experience is more important than ever, especially right now, in order to get through this. I know we are going through some very challenging times and as a business owner, knowing whats next is anyones guess. I dont think anyone has the answers to it all right now, but I do think that part of the solution is to make sure that at least the bare minimum of business fundamentals are maintained. Im fairly certain that the majority of business owners that are currently...Continue reading

07.01.2022 Cash flow really is king! The question thats going through many business owners minds right now is, how do I never feel this vulnerable ever again? What we are going through now, has the potential to happen again. So, what businesses must do now, more than ever before, is eliminate that vulnerability as best they can. I have no idea what the exact number is, but according to statistics from years of data, well over 80% of businesses fail in the first five years and as a res...Continue reading

07.01.2022 There are three types of businesses out there at the moment. 1: Those that have just shut. It's all too hard. Come back when it's over and try and start again! 2: Those that are trying to plod through, doing the same thing just less of it. 3: And those that have adapted, identified new opportunities, tried something new to see what happens, add value, improve service all in continuing to build the brand, the relationship and tell everyone, we aren't going anywhere. We're her...e for you. Adapt, get better, grow. Mybusinessnow.com.au

07.01.2022 Positive cashflow is the solution to real business growth. But if theres one thing thats stood out above anything else over the last couple of months, its the cashflow vulnerability of so many businesses. Far too many businesses simply run week to week, or even week to the past week. They struggle to make enough money to pay last weeks bills, hence the incredibly high insolvency rate in businesses. Cashflow is king, but the objective is have more left over at the end of ea...ch week, month or year, than you started with. Statistics tell us that less than 17% of businesses do even the simplest form of business planning, and even less actually look at it again and you can bet that even less again think any more about their cashflow other than whats in the bank account now and then, if there is any. (And even then they sometimes dont, because they dont like what they see!) If business owners dont plan, or have even the simplest strategy of how theyll get to their objective, it probably wont happen through luck alone! Its all about cashflow! Mybusinessnow and CashFlow360

06.01.2022 Now is the time that businesses will need to simplify what they do and how they do it. Eliminate the overwhelm that most businesses are going through. Focus on what works, not on everything. Focus, adapt, strategise. Dont miss the keys to grow businesses even now. Its often the simple things! Free business training with MybusinessnowBoardroom. Businesses right now still need the skills, strategies and support to get through this and come out the other end stronger and now weve made it even easier. Strategies, skills, solutions and support. Monthly online workshops, weekly strategies, guest presenters, ongoing peer and mentor support and much more to protect and grow businesses now. And its free! https://mybusinessnow.com.au/the-boardroom

05.01.2022 Join the movement to grow your business better. It's simpler than most think. Building your business that is! But if nothing changes, nothing will ever change! There has never been a more important time to get the basics right first, and grow from there, than right now. These are tough times for business! ... The truth is that most businesses miss the simple things and try and grow and attract more clients by simply spending more and more on marketing and advertising and it's not always the solution. Yes you need to attract clients, but that may not only be as a result of advertising. It's the brand, image, the service experience, the followup. Don't get that right at every contact point, and you lose points! The more points you lose at each contact point, the less chance to ever get those potential customers back! (And they have long memories!) The simplest way to grow any business is through better Attraction, Build better relationships, keep those Customers longer. That's how you build any business better, easier and faster. The A,B,Cs of building any business. Join the ThinkBusinessGrowth movement. Like the page and register on the link below to receive our ABC of simple business growth as well as free weekly business growth tips. https://form.jotform.co/90707847420863 Business growth is easy, you just need to know what to do first! Welcome to Mybusinssnow Uncmplicating business growth.

04.01.2022 Free business training workshop. Sunshine Coast Tuesday, February 18: JumpStart360, sell, service better to grow any business faster. Book your seat today. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/jumpstart360-sellservicegro

02.01.2022 In order to survive, protect our businesses and get through this, businesses need to think different, adapt, identify new opportunities and standout. Nothing changes if nothing changes! Free business training from MybusinessnowBoardroom. Get through this and out the other end stronger and better businesses. Monthly online workshops, strategies and support to protect and grow businesses now. Click here to find out more and get started. https://form.jotform.co/90410761984864

02.01.2022 Welcome to another year! How to really crack it this time! I dont know how many times Ive said or written that over the years, but its probably around 30 times, over the last 30 years in the last couple of businesses Ive had. The fundamentals that Ive always talked about in relation to business growth, is to having a strategic plan for the next year, to ensure the business actually gets to where you want it to go and its still the same message and still, 80% of business...Continue reading

01.01.2022 If you could attend free, short, live business workshops, that could give you real skills to grow your business, would you? Yes or no in comments.If you could attend free, short, live business workshops, that could give you real skills to grow your business, would you? Yes or no in comments.