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February 12, 2013
What Are Your Business Assets Worth?
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Do you have an asset register? If yes do you know what your assets are worth and have you included everything? Time to check?

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February 5, 2013
What Happens if Your Supplier Goes Bust?
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All businesses have suppliers but have you thought what the implications are for your business if your supplier lets you down or worse still goes out of business?

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January 30, 2013
Business Success It's All About Confidence
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Running a successful growing business is all about confidence. From the confidence that you have in yourself, to having the confidence of your investors, advisers and suppliers through to consumer and market confidence; there is no doubt that success revolves around confidence.

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January 29, 2013
Marketing Expertise in Demand
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The biggest skills gap in high growing businesses is marketing followed by sales and then funding. We shouldn't be surprised,but what can we do about it....

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January 22, 2013
Profitable Businesses Go Bust?
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… But why?
Bank managers, angel investors and many, many failed business owners will all tell you that profitable businesses go bust. Why? Because they run out of cash!

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January 15, 2013
I’m a Customer Please Ignore Me
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So many tools and apps are the same (at least they seem that way to me).  Essentially they solve the same problem – but when they go wrong, as a business owner, you want someone to solve the problem for you. And guess what, generally we are happy to pay if we have done the damage.

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January 8, 2013
Don’t Ignore Business Key Performance Indicators
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It’s official! 60% of SME businesses don’t track any Key Performance Indicators (KPI) at all. Almost 2/3rds of respondents confirmed that monthly KPIs are non-existent in their business

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January 2, 2013
Business Risks You Might Not Have Thought Of..
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Your business is running risks every day. But the majority of business owner paid only passing attention to identifying or managing business risks
Businesses should have a risk log which details:

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December 11, 2012
12Ps of Business Planning
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Almost every business owner I know takes time at Christmas to reassess their business achievements and set next year’s goals and new projects. Here are my 12Ps of Business Planning for Christmas to help you focus you’re thinking.

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Welcome to the Grown-Up Business blog. It’s a mixture of business insights, useful information, challenging comment, every day observations as well as some techy bits; all designed to help you grow your business into whatever you want it to be.

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I’m constantly curious: thinking, reading, learning and implementing positive change with my business coaching and mentoring. I continually share my insights so check back for new content. Why not re-read some of my older posts: they’re still relevant for today.

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