It’s important for business owners to understand the ins and outs of operating a business. Read on for some business tips and best practices that you can take advantage of.
Well, we had such a fantastic response from the previous podcast that we've decided to do another one expanding on common mistakes in small business. So we already know remove repetition, step one. Document, step two. Remove objections from your customers, step three. How are you going to have time to do all that? You're already pretty busy.
If you've been in business for a while, you'd know that there are definitely some mistakes that you've made. Today, we've been asked what are the common mistakes that we see around the traps in small businesses? It's a great question because we see a lot. Are you using paper? Have you answered the phone in your business recently? Can you monitor what all of your staff are doing and can they reference a document that shows them what they're meant to be doing? If the answer is no, then you're making a mistake.
My name is Joshua Lewis. I'm from Dorks Delivered, and I’ve got another company called Business Efficiency Experts. Business Efficiency Experts has been around for about five years, and Dorks Delivered for 12 years, so we've been going around for quite a bit. We started off as an IT company, and then we found that there was more of a need for businesses to be utilising technology better. Since then, I've started writing as a columnist for my entrepreneur magazine. I've been featured on News.com.au and soon to be published in every entrepreneur's guide focusing on your marketing.
If there's one thing Texans and Aussies can agree on, it's the magical power of the barbecue. Do you know why it's so popular? It's because it's simple. Get the food, maybe brush it with something and stick it on the skewer.
Office space is an important facet to consider when you're setting up a new business or if you've got an established business. Maybe you're looking to change a business around and become one of those fancy hipsters that have people work from home. Whatever the case is, sizing up the amount of floor space that you need for your office can be a difficult task, and it's definitely a discussion that you need to have with your IT company. The reason being there's nearly no reason nowadays with the infrastructure that we have got, even though it's terrible in Australia, it's still good enough to allow for your workers to work from home, and in a flexible environment. This gives you the best of both worlds.
After being in business for a while you hear some crazy stories. I've been lucky to be involved in a couple of them, and some of them are bad for business and I'm going to be talking today about how they could have been avoided. One of my favourites is this potential client that called me up and they were still in the process of using our services.
When did your IT guy last pay you for downtime?
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