Autocorrect can go straight to he’ll.

Heard of that new band 1023 Megabytes? They’re good but don’t have a gig just yet.

Why can’t Microsoft employees relax? Because they’re always on Edge.

What kind of computer sings the best? A Dell.

Why do programmers prefer dark mode? Because light attracts bugs.

There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don’t.

Why shouldn’t you fart in an Apple store? They don’t have Windows

Why are iPhone chargers not called Apple Juice?!

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What to Do in a Financial Downturn With Justine Lalla

The financial crisis in business can be very challenging to deal with and navigate. Several companies have found themselves suddenly forced out of business due to liquidity problems. For business owners, it doesn’t matter how many times they try to prevent this kind of situation—it will pop up periodically due to the changes happening in the market. Businesses are seeing rough spots due to broad market factors, such as excessive debt, overpriced assets, poor financial system and other issues. When you have been building a business or managing one for a while, you have to be prepared and equipped for this kind of situation. You should be aware that the financial crisis occurs in particular industries or even in confined companies due to limiting factors. In this episode, Justine Lalla shares what to do best during a financial downturn.

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Niching Your Business With Bryn Harwood

What is a business niche? This is a focused area of a broader market that all kind of business can serve to differentiate themselves from the competition. As a business owner, you should find a niche in the industry that has underserved needs. Few of the strategies you can consider are: selecting your target audience, defining the unmet needs of a particular industry, researching your customer database and creating a business plan. Whether you’ve been handling business for a while or you just started managing one, you mustn’t be only thinking about creating a steady stream of your revenue, but you also need to be aware on how to establish a loyal audience. A solid market of a particular group of customers who will buy from your business will keep you ahead of the competition. In this episode, Bryn Harwood shares his insights about niching your business.

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Business Asset Protection With Jason Popelier

With over 10 years of experience as a business and corporate adviser, Jason Popelier from FWO Chartered Accountants shares with as his thoughts and tips if you want to a solid business asset protection. Learn more about how to change the model of your business to make sure that you are considering things you have between the items that are bringing you in money and the items that are costing you money are separated, from the accounting and insurance perspective.

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Staying Efficient in Business With Sarah Stein

Although your company is running smoothly, you can still make things better. Ensuring the efficiency within your business will play a vital role in your future success. The more your business gets bigger, the more you have to consider several factors in keeping your settings efficient and productive. We can’t avoid situations like, a project gets hung up for a few days, or some meetings that once felt productive seems to drag on for hours, but as a business owner, you have to keep in mind that getting that traction and focus back in place should be your main priority. Feedback from experts and employees are also relevant to the process. So in this episode, Sarah Steins shares her thoughts on how to stay efficient in your business.

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The Business Data Revolution With Emily Ridley

Worldwide access to enormous and vast amounts of data has changed the business landscape. Competitive marketing depends now on knowing how to manage, process, and analyze that data. As a business owner, it is very important that you understand the path organizations which need to be taken from collecting data and how to maximizing its use.

As we all know, today’s organizations are undergoing a challenging transformation process around their technical systems. The static software platforms that might have retained, stored and processed a business’ data are no longer sustainable in the current web environment. Enterprises must need cutting-edge technology to collect big data in real-time, analyze that data, and get the information they need to stay competitive in today’s marketplace. In today’s episode, Emily Ridley shares her ideas about business data revolution.

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Why Is the Human Face an Effective Marketing Tool?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr4NLMVZ-VE

You know where this is, right? Yep. It’s Mount Rushmore and this world-famous historical site is just a giant marketing stunt. They came up with the idea in the early 1920s, as a way to attract tourism to this part of South Dakota. You can’t deny that it worked.

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Finding Content for Your Podcast

The purpose of setting up your podcast is to address the needs of your audience. Your podcast topics can be about the challenges that your audience wants to overcome, a problem to solve or a subject with which they want to be more familiar. But there are cases that your audience just wants to be entertained or distracted for a while. This will only mean that when you choose a podcast topic, you have to know your audience’s primary needs and how you can be of service to them. To make a podcast work, you must care about your podcast idea and pick a topic that you are passionate about. A podcaster will just fall off consistently publishing a new episode if he or she is not excited to put forth the effort. In this episode, Joshua Lewis shares his ideas on how to find the best content for your podcast.

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Setting Up Your Own Podcast

People are listening to podcasts even before, so setting up a podcast is a great way to build a connection with your targeted audience. Aside from the connection that you can make through social media, podcasts will allow you to engage with unique long-form content. The first thing you have to do is to come up and develop a podcast concept. Although the topics may vary, choosing your podcast name, format, show length and fundamental questions to be asked are necessary. The most important question you also have to ask yourself for is, “Why am I starting a podcast?”. The core values and purpose of establishing your own podcast will sustain it for the longest time so in this episode, Joshua Lewis shares some tips on how to set up your own podcast.

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Keeping Your Business Sane With Brad Bulow

If you are running a business or thinking about starting a new one, there are things you need to consider to reach your goals. Becoming successful in any kind of industry and leaving an impact on the world is not easy. This will require an extreme amount of hard work and focus. You need to have a plan and be flexible to succeed in anything that you are passionate about. You’ve got to use your imagination, be creative and embrace the complexity of every situation. Many people start their businesses and think that when they turn on their computers and open their doors, they can begin making money not knowing that making money is much more difficult than they thought. In this episode, which is very timely, Brad Bulow shares his ideas on how to keep your business sane.

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How to Restructure Your Business With Tim Wilshire

Have you ever been part of restructuring an organization? As what Heraclitus said, “The only constant in life is change.” And in this modern world, whether a complex or simple change happens, this highly affects all aspects of our daily routine. Restructuring a business is tough, and it takes a great deal of careful planning and execution but at the same time, we also need to remain adaptable to the ever-changing environment and maintain its competitiveness. Therefore, we must deal with these changes differently according to the situation. If you are considering to restructure your business or make organizational changes in the near future, there are a few things you must consider. In this episode, Tim Wilshire shares tips on how to restructure your business properly.

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Improving Your Business Process Flow With Pip Meecham

Are you handling business for a while or about to start a new one? Have you thought about the advantage of technology in your business? Whether you agree or not, we are now living in a wonderful era of advance technology. The progress we see is rapid and overwhelming. But we must also admit that whether you are an entrepreneur, a student or an employed citizen, it is very much important that you keep your self up with what’s new in this digital age. We must dedicate at least some time to become aware of new technological trends and even test driving them to prepare our business to have a competitive edge from the rest. In this episode, Pip Meecham shares her experience and insights into business process flow and how to improve it with the help of technology.

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Niching Your Business With Kirsty-Lee Roberts

When you open and run a business in a unique industry, it is important to differentiate yourself from the competition and win over your audience. Entrepreneurs should find a specific business niche to target a market strategy, and the broader the market, the more businesses you can serve. You should also find a niche in your industry that has unmet needs and select your target clients, define an underserved need, research customer base, create your business plan and market your business to a specific audience. The good news is, If you think of a specific product that serves one of your unique needs, it can probably be classified as a niche business idea. And in today’s episode, we’ve got Kirsty-Lee and she’s going to discuss niching the current position of Australia’s financials.

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Creating Awesome Teams With Zoe Routh

“I believe that leadership is like a wilderness and that you can learn to read the map.”
– Zoe Routh

In today’s episode, Zoe Routh of Inner Compass talks about how to better your business. You may be in a position where you’re worried about possibly a looming recession (or maybe you’re not). Some businesses we have been working with have gone from 30–50 employees down to 3–5, so it’s scary times. But Zoe is an expert when it comes to building relationships and making sure the relationships you have with your teams and with yourself are on point. She helps leaders manage that kind of process and its effects on their people, instead of cutting expenses and other business decisions.

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Forecasting Your Business Numbers With Leschen Smaller

Our special guest in this episode is Leschen Smaller from Element Business and Accounting Solutions. How come so many businesses have collapsed? Where have they gone? Why didn’t they save for a rainy day? These are just some of the questions we have in mind and Leschen is here to enlighten us. She explains 13-week cash flow and talks more about getting projections for when your cash is coming in and when your cash is going out⁠—something that is certainly important and that has been highlighted through this whole COVID crisis thing. Normally, businesses might save a little bit for a rainy day, but Leschen shares a better way to stay afloat in times of crisis: forecasting. Read more or listen to the podcast!

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How to Set Your Pricing With Courtney Deagon

Are your products overpriced? Does your service cost too much or too little? Most entrepreneurs will have that problem with pricing. How do we set our prices or rates? Is it what would cost us plus a percentage or do we look into the wilderness to see what our competitors have in there? Perhaps there’s a formula to doing it right. Courtney Deagon, pricing expert and the CEO of Court & Co Value Group Pty Ltd, shares with us some great tips on setting the prices of our products or the rates of our services.

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Getting the Most Out of Your Remote Workforce

Today, we’re going to talk about how to efficiently manage your remote workforce. You’re all happy and home and hose that you’ve got everyone working from home and you’ve noticed that they aren’t quite meeting their KPIs, or maybe they are, or maybe you didn’t have KPIs in the first place. Whatever the case may be, we’re going to go through some really handy ways that you can measure your staff’s performance on a keyboard stroke, phone call, or whatever the KPI metric that you want to measure is.

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Business Tips

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What to Do in a Financial Downturn With Justine Lalla

Niching Your Business With Bryn Harwood

Business Asset Protection With Jason Popelier

Staying Efficient in Business With Sarah Stein

The Business Data Revolution With Emily Ridley

Why Is the Human Face an Effective Marketing Tool?

Finding Content for Your Podcast

Setting Up Your Own Podcast

Keeping Your Business Sane With Brad Bulow

How to Restructure Your Business With Tim Wilshire

Improving Your Business Process Flow With Pip Meecham

Niching Your Business With Kirsty-Lee Roberts

Creating Awesome Teams With Zoe Routh

Forecasting Your Business Numbers With Leschen Smaller

How to Set Your Pricing With Courtney Deagon

Getting the Most Out of Your Remote Workforce

Why Choose Us for Business Automation?

Custom solutions tailored to your business

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Ongoing support to optimise your automation

Brisbane-based automation experts

No lock-in automation contracts

Scalable automation strategies

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