by Neil O'Brien | Aug 4, 2017 | Costs, Employees, Our News
How much to pay a marketing manager, a plumber, a sales manager and a goldsmith. The same question came from four clients in four weeks. But the question of how much to pay an accountant is what tipped the scales in favour of this article. Let’s use simple...
by Neil O'Brien | Jul 28, 2017 | Employees, management, Our News
Most companies firefight when it comes to recruitment, either because someone has left or the influx in sales had led to an increased workload. Either way, without planning and time to recruit, the firefight recruitment process is flawed and will cost your business,...
by Neil O'Brien | Jul 21, 2017 | management, Our News, ScaleUp
Business success is measured by business numbers, that’s all, pure and simple. Even the biggest companies in the world follow this and they publish their business numbers regularly. But if you look at their business numbers, they don’t talk about their P&L or...
by Neil O'Brien | Jul 14, 2017 | management, Our News, ScaleUp, StartUP
Indicators, they aren’t just used to tell other road users which direction you intend to take. In business, you should use indicators to inform you of the good, the bad, or the ugly. When you build the right indicators then you’ll know what is happening and will be...
by Neil O'Brien | Jul 7, 2017 | Our News
To build a business will eventually mean that you need to hire your first member of staff. To continue to build a business then you’ll need to hire more staff. It is always a catch 22 situation when you want to hire staff as (generally) their cost will come before the...
by Neil O'Brien | Jun 23, 2017 | management, Our News, SellUp
When do you sell up? That is the simple question to answer. You sell your business when someone comes along and knocks on your door with a fist full of dollars that is enough to make you walk away. That’s it. The end. But to get to the end, you have to start at...
