Do any of these ring true to your business? Space is limited Staff are reducing or need to reduce Must increase profits Need to service a wider area Need to give more to get /keep your staff Wasting time due to poor efficiency These reasons and others have brought...

As a SME who has been successful, employing people and gone through 3 decades of business in Adelaide Australia. I have found there are some really important facts that as a business one has to do. The logical items would be planning, cashflow, decisive, keep up sales and marketing,...

I am writing about this question, because I would be asked this question hundreds of times in a year. So here are the reasons. MS Access was a really intelligent product that Microsoft added to its professional office pack. The reason that it is intelligent is really due to...

Today on the news, it was reported that SANFL – South Australian Football are going to remove goal scoring for the junior students who play local football. I am writing to express my opinion on this matter, and in fact on the matter of not having healthy competition in the...

Product development is something I have a lot of experience in. I have gone through this with stress, frustration, hope and exhaustion. I have developed products for myself, for others and in partnership. The products I have developed have been both physical and non physical (e.g. Software and Web...

Recently reading a document from a Business Consultant – Brett Williams, he mentioned how he had done quite a bit of work with businesses who are trying to get the staff to stop “back biting”. I found this interesting, as this has never been a problem that I have...

After 30 years in business I have seen “Marketing Experts”, and frankly 95% of them are a waste of time. However, that 5% are really worth their weight in diamonds to a business. A few years ago, I was so dissatisfied with what marketing cost my business and what...

Here in Adelaide, South Australia, we have survived an unbelievable heatwave. For many companies this means, tools down. It costs more, staff are lethargic, and customers are just not coming in. However, for others it is a boom time. It all seems that we all want the almighty dollar....

How often have I stayed up at night considering what a staff member said or how they acted? How to handle a situation? Even now after 30 years of employing people, I still get curve balls from new staff members. So what is the solution? The solution is to...

Cash flow is the blood of small business. Without it, you go out of business. It doesn’t matter how good you are, how great your products are and even how great your customers and staff are. Cash flow is the essential item to staying in business. So your business...