Productivity: Are You Responding Quickly Enough?

I don’t know about you, but I get annoyed when I constantly have to phone or email the same person because they don’t respond to my messages, especially if it’s for products or services that I’m interested in. The impression I form of them can include any or all of the following: Read the rest…

Contributed by Lorraine Pirihi .   Lorraine Pirihi, The Productivity Queen, is Australia's leading Productivity Specialist and creator of "The Productivity and Profit System ™" the complete one-on-one training program for solopreneurs and small businesses that shows business owners exactly how to work less and earn more! To receive your F.R.E.E. CD & Report "3 Steps to Dramatically Reducing Your Workload and Stress While Maximising Your Profit$! ($77 value) go to http://www.productivityqueen.com

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Marketing Plans That Work: Remove the jargon and get results

When you are writing a marketing plan, nuke the big words and don’t use three sentences to say what you could in one. If you want your business to gather pace rather than dust, it’s vital that any marketing plan you write is easy to understand, effective for the business and easily implemented. Sounds like a no brainer, but the majority of plans – all written with the best intentions of course – end up wallowing in the bottom of filing cabinets or being used a year later as scrap paper.

A practical marketing plan can save your company from going backwards, and in the scenarios we like to see, propel it into a whole new realm. Here’s some tips regarding the best way to go about preparing a plan that you’ll want to see through and implement! Read the rest…

STOP Playing Around: It’s Time to Commit!

If Financial Ignorance = Bliss.  You’ll Be Blissfully Broke…  Imagine for a moment that you are playing an important game of tennis. It’s the club final and you are the favourite. There is a big crowd and, as the game progresses, everything seems to be going to plan. You’re playing well and you’re winning points. Victory can’t be far away. There is only one problem: there is no scoreboard and the umpire is keeping score to herself.  No one except her knows what’s really going on. Read the rest…

5 Ways to Get Your Business Organised For Christmas

Guest Contributor: Lorraine Pirihi

The holiday season is filled with excitement, parties and good cheer. The next few weeks will speed by and before you know it you’ll be sitting down having Christmas Dinner.  If you’re unprepared and don’t get your act together early enough, you could miss out on golden opportunities to increase business because you’re so stressed out trying to keep up. Read the rest…

7 Winning Ways to Work Productively From Home

Guest Contributor: Lorraine Pirihi

One of my clients used to run his own successful accounting practice from home. With pre-school children and trying to grow his business, he and his wife used to get very frustrated with the fact that they could never remove themselves from the workplace. They felt their business totally overwhelmed them and caused many challenges which affected their personal relationships. We were able to identify exactly where their time was being spent and found that there were simple ways they could do more in growing their business and still have a life. Three years later with the growth of their practice they have had to move their business to new premises.

Here are seven ways you can successfully work from home and enjoy the benefits… Read the rest…

Imitation book lacks two vital ingredients

Recently, whilst shopping in K-Mart, I was a bit surprised to see one of the oldest and well known national women’s magazine’s name appearing on the cover of a book titled ‘Just Four Ingredients’. Now I might be wrong but didn’t the concept and idea of cooking with 4 Ingredients originally belong to bestselling authors from Qld’s Sunshine Coast, Rachael Bermingham and Kim McCosker? It’s also the concept behind their new TV cooking program currently showing on the LifeStyle Channel. Read the rest…

’9 Ways to Make Your Meetings Productive and Profitable’

Guest Contributor: Lorraine Pirihi

Some time ago I facilitated a VIP Planning Day for a small accounting practice. During the course of the day we reviewed the progress they had made since  the Planning Day we had the year before. As we were reflecting on their achievements before planning the future, one of the partners made the comment on how crucial their weekly meetings were. Read the rest…

FREE Online Tool for SMEs

The new tax year is off and running and we’ve found a new online tool being offered by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) which could make life so much easier for small business owners in regards to organising their tax obligations for the year ahead.
 
If you’re sick of not knowing when everything for your business is due for lodgement with ATO, take a look at the ATO’s new Small Business Tax Calendar. It’s a program that allows you to input the start dates and frequency of your tax obligations. It also asks a number of questions about the nature of your business. Read the rest…

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How to banish your sales phobia

If you’re in business then bascially you are in sales. Regardless of what industry you work in the sales process is in play every day. So if we are all making sales why do so many of us have an issue with selling? And what strategies can help with overcoming all the phobias that accompany the sales process? Read the rest…