Raising finance
When you’ve got a great business idea, or frankly a business idea and lack of funding to execute it the natural thought is to fundraise. Raising finance seems easier now that is was before,...
Don’t ignore the warning signs
When you’re driving at 100+mph and concentrating on the road ahead it is tough to see the warning signs, let alone do anything about the impending issues. I found this out to my peril when all of a...
Rapid Growth – the challenges for entrepreneurs
There are many challenges we face as entrepreneurs but the hardest of them all are the challenges of dealing with rapid growth in business. Most entrepreneurs would love skyrocketing revenues,...
Habits, well the one to make you super successful.
Steven Covey has sold more than 20 million copies of his book ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People’, so with an audience this large, he must have been onto something. In business habits can...
Motivation is the key to business success
Do you ever wake up before your alarm? Not just waking up and rolling over before dozing back off and hitting the snooze button 4 times before crawling out from bed, still half asleep. What I’m...
Building a sustainable high-performance team
Following on from our article on building an A-Team we now move onto how to build a high-performance team. Building a high-performance team comes down to just one thing, trust. Special Forces teams...
Sales conversations should be service conversations
Many people in business are absolutely petrified of sales conversations. It’s the Britishness in us, we’re programmed to be polite, to give more than take, so asking for something is hard, for most...
What does a great team look like in business?
When you are trying to break out from being an ugly duckling to become a graceful swan one of the key areas to look at first is your team. Whether it is you first hire or your 50th, the people that...
Asset sweating
Asset sweating is the secret to profit, that is a simple fact. But many business owners don't understand what asset sweating is, let alone how to go about extracting the maximum profit from your...
Hitting the wall
Have you hit ‘the Wall’? How to achieve or rekindle growth is a hot topic amongst many entrepreneurs, consultants and academics alike. Many consider that the macro-economic conditions are the main...