Business Tips: Don’t be penny wise and pound stupid
Businesses invest a lot of time and resources to develop different strategies for financial growth and their success. A continuous flow of cash would ensure that they'll be able to serve their customers for years to come and move towards their goals. But, increasing...
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Business 101: Should You Outsource Your Digital Marketing? [INFOGRAPHIC]
One of the major challenges most starting businesses face is planning on how to attract prospective clients. Since they often have insufficient resources, most startups can’t afford to place their ads in traditional media channels. Thankfully, digital marketing made...
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5 Small Business Challenges and How to Fix Them [INFOGRAPHIC]
In the first few years, small companies open their doors; they have to deal with a lot of different challenges. Some companies overcome these challenges but some can’t. 20% of small businesses fail in their first-year while about 50% of small businesses fail in their...
Spring Cleaning Tips That’ll Boost Your Sales Productivity
When flowers start blooming, and people start freshening up their homes, you know it’s that time of the year again. Spring cleaning is an annual tradition where homeowners bust opens their windows and cleaning supplies cabinet. But this practice isn’t just for homes...
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Finding Balance as a Small Business Owner or a Company CEO [INFOGRAPHIC]
Small business owners and company presidents have a lot in common – starting with how busy they can be. Overseeing everything has benefits, but it also has major drawbacks, especially when it comes to work-life balance. You should be able to work to live, not live to...
Are You Treating Your Sales Team Like Your Operations Team?
You have to measure your sales success. It sounds easy, but in reality, measuring successes in sales can be difficult. Although the job is to close sales, measuring the progress can’t come down to the number of sales and looking at profit margins. You must consider...
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Business Owner Spring Cleaning [INFOGRAPHIC]
At a time when people are opening their windows, taking a deep breath and getting their homes ready for spring and summer, it is business as usual for many business owners. At Business Coaches Sydney, we often talk to our clients about getting out of the day-to-day...
5 Tips to Develop a Killer Elevator Pitch
In today’s busy world, everyone seems to be in a constant rush. Our attention is divided in checking the clock non-stop while scrambling for more time. People want everything in an instant, which is why the acronym TL;DR (Too Long Didn't Read) is so commonly seen...
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5 Benefits of Dynamic Mentoring in Workplace [INFOGRAPHIC]
Mentoring is a time-tested method of knowledge sharing. Since the ancient times, mentorship became a guaranteed way to pass a more experienced person’s wisdom onto another person. In this day and age, mentoring is still being used. In fact, we’ve been mentored all...
5 Tips to Successful Mentoring Program Implementation in Workplace
Employees are one of the most critical assets of a company. Capable employees can increase productivity as well as improve the product’s quality or rendered services of the organisation which strengthens its competitive position in the market. That’s why companies...
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5 Ways to Overcome Your Fear of Sales [INFOGRAPHIC]
For a business owner, selling is integral for the everyday life. However, it can be proven to be difficult especially with the lack of confidence and a lot of fear. Each and every individual has their own fears, and salespeople aren’t the exception. Everyone at some...
Hope is NOT a Business Strategy
“Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.” — James Cameron The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines hope as “to want something to happen or be true,” “to cherish a desire with anticipation,” and "to desire with expectation of...
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4 Foolproof Sales Tips for the Business Owner [INFOGRAPHIC]
To become a great business owner means that you'll have to cultivate more than just your leadership skills — you also need to be knowledgeable about the numerous aspects that a company has so it can function correctly. Perhaps one of the most important of these is...
5 Tips on How to Grow your Business and Have A Balanced Life
As you fight through the harsh landscape that is running a business, you may find that you're already devoting all your time pursuing your company goals that you’re sacrificing everything else — and it’s throwing the rest of your life into chaos. “But the first five...
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How Good, Old Fashioned Customer Care Still Works in This Age [INFOGRAPHIC]
Running a business is, undoubtedly, an on-going, non-stop affair — and as a business owner, it’s established that you’ve got to keep pushing down the path despite all the setbacks you may face. Not only does this help you avoid backlog, but also keeps your team on...
Pull Out These Old Selling Techniques That Don’t Work And Burn Them!
A common thread among any skills-building course is the fact that you’re always educated about what to do, which techniques to employ, etc. These build the foundation of what all newbies will do, founded on years of experience and trial-and-error that their seniors or...
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3 Tips to Avoid the Disconnect Between You and Your Customers [INFOGRAPHIC]
For a transaction to be successful, there must be a strong connection established between the business and the customer. However, for one reason or another, most deals still end up with varying degrees of disconnect between the prospective customer and the sales...
Small Business Owners need Sales Skills – Here’s Why
Owning a business is a dream come true for many as there's the notion that you're earning your own money and not depending on a payroll. And you're doing what you love as opposed to working for some else's ambitions. Despite this lucrative dream, however, many are...
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How to Effectively Price Your Products or Services [INFOGRAPHIC]
The most common goal of any business is to make a profit, and it's only through effective pricing that you can accomplish this objective. A pricing strategy marred with faults and inaccuracies will only cause losses and hinder your business' success. The optimum...
How To Expand Your Growing Company When You Can’t Afford More People
Expanding the company is the goal of every business owner, but it comes with its shares of setbacks, especially for those with a business that’s still growing. A large, dedicated, full-time team working within the company can help it flourish, but sometimes, hiring is...
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Why Should You Have A Goal In Business? [INFOGRAPHIC]
According to Murphy’s Law, “anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” In the field of entrepreneurship and business, companies who don't establish clear and substantial goals fail to plan, and as such, plan to fail. Chron.com define goals as "resolutions to achieve...
Don’t Fear Success!
There have been lots of guides and lessons on conquering the fear of failure — after all, it's one of the most common hurdles that everyone eventually faces. Learning how to turn failure into success has become a mantra that most have heard at some point. Fear of...
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6 Steps To Recover From Burnout And Stress [INFOGRAPHIC]
Stress is a big part of running a business, and the results are often worth the hardships and headaches you had to endure on the way. But too much stress can turn into burnout, which can plague anyone and affect your life, even outside the workplace. According to a...
Supporting Women in Business
Small business owners are the backbone of the Sydney and Australian wide economy. While there are not many published statistics online on the gender split between owners in Australia, several have been made about the US gender split on small business owners. A report...
Bridging The Gap With Millennials
Millennials — a term to collectively refer to those who were born roughly between 1982-2004 — are perhaps the most-researched generation of this age. A lot of effort has been spent trying to understand this generation, from the values they possess, the characteristics...
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6 Tips for a Better Business in 2018 [INFOGRAPHIC]
2017 was a monumental year for many countries all over the world. Some of the most remarkable events that transpired and shocked the world were: the news and events around North Korea's missiles, the legalisation of same-sex marriage in many countries, Cyclone...
5 Tips To Embed A Culture Of Customer Centricity
Many of today's organizations have recognized that customer centricity is not only a feel-good, altruistic mantra – it is more of a core business requirement, especially in this age where customer decisions are heavily influenced by how a company treated them....
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5 Things To Consider When Measuring Call Centre Productivity [INFOGRAPHIC]
Productivity is the measurement of the amount of work that is accomplished during a specific period. Productivity is an essential aspect of any workplace and is also directly related to the success or growth of the company or organisation. Ideally, a company should...
Management is for softies, but it gets positive results – Bob’s Story
When we put together management training, we like to involve potential participants in the design. This co-creation approach has some real benefits - participants are engaged early on, and we can understand precisely what their management challenges are, which ensures...
Training Needs Analysis – Do You Know Your ROI And Sales Team Competency?
With the competitiveness of the business industry today, employees must always be at the top of their game and be equipped with the necessary skills and skill level to keep up with the competition. However, not all employees will automatically perform up to a certain...