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Owning Your Business

Owning Your Business

Owning your business Do you own a business or are you a business owner? Sounds a stupid question, playing with words. Yet there is meaning in my madness. When I first met Matt Driver, former owner of Mint IT in Wakefield, he was in the business owner camp. It was a title or role he […]

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Cash Flow

The Importance of Cash Flow

Why is cash flow important? A long time ago I was a trainee accountant doing audits of all sorts of businesses. Sometimes I was allocated the audit of the trade debtors at the year end. I won’t bore you with all the audit procedures, but the schedule of debtors and aged debt report were always […]

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Owning Your Business

Selling your business

Selling your business? Sometimes you only get to do this once. It’s important to make sure you do it right. Lessons from selling my business Last month I shared a post on LinkedIn about an up-coming meeting of the Value Builder Board I co-chair with Martin Allison. One of our board members, Matt Driver, was […]

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Owning Your Business

The Importance of ‘Values’ in your Business

The importance of Values in your business: He recruited enough accountants to have a 5-a-side football team! Many years ago, a MD of a print business recruited at least 5 different accountants / book-keepers to run his finance function. These were sequential appointments for the same role. I said to the MD that the common […]

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Owning Your Business

How to get greater accountability and get more done in your business

There’s a business owner I know who was feeling stressed about their business. Specifically, it was about the team not completing their day-to-day tasks on time, or people not following through on the commitments they made. There was no accountability. Also, mistakes were made too often, and nobody was grabbing a problem and sorting it […]

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Is being the hub of your business holding you back?

  As a business owner you are the hub of the business. Seems obvious. Maybe it’s something you feel good about – the business needs you. It’s no surprise that the most common and biggest influence on the life of a business owner is how well they handle the Hub & Spoke aspect of their […]

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Why Companies are Adopting Subscription Billing Models

Volvo make their cars available on a subscription model where consumers will pay one fixed fee per month for access to a car which includes insurance and maintenance. Everything from toothbrushes to flowers are now available with subscription billing, creating recurring revenue.       Future Value comes from recurring revenue  When it comes to […]

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Scaling up your business – Part 2

In my previous blog (which you can read here) I introduced the 4 steps to scaling up your business. I then described the first two of having a scalable product (one that is teachable to your team, is of value to customers and is a repeatable purchase) and having a scalable infrastructure (Systems, processes and […]

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Scaling up your business – Part 1

I bet you every business owner you talk to is interested in growing their business. They’ll talk about business growth or scaling up their business. A business that isn’t growing is declining. But scaling up isn’t as easy in practice. When you’re a one-person business you have to do the selling and the doing plus […]

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