Do you only think about your business goals or consider your personal goals too? After all we should not be spending all of our time at work. As a business owner your personal goals always drive your business goals.

Numbers never seem as important as they do at this time of year. You might be frantically tracking and checking your numbers to make sure that you focus on the right things that are going to ensure that your hit your year-end target.

December has arrived. It’s less than 31 days until 2014, but are you ready?. Have you thought about what you want to happen next 365 days?
Its a good time to start thinking so here is just one question for you to answer for every day of Advent?

How do you prepare your business plans? If you are working in a group then I'm sure that flipcharts, Blu-tack, whiteboards and Post it notes play a big part in your business planning process. I can't imagine a group planning session where the computer is the centre of attention!

One challenge that faces all growing businesses is when is the best time to add more staff to your team? Who do you need first and who can you wait for? How will you find the right person and can you afford to hire them or afford not to hire them? This dilemma is particularly […]

Is it me or do the unions think they run some of our largest businesses here in the UK? Why do the unions think they should be in charge and dictate business strategy? Let me set my stall out now. I've never been a union member, perhaps I have believed that frank, open discussion and […]

Nearly every SME’s I meet doesn’t have a business forecast. Some have a cash flow forecast but that’s about it. At least those with a cash flow forecast will be able to track cash and that’s important.

Everyone knows this phrase – on it not in it, just as we all know we should ‘focus on the important’ bits first. But we don't. We love working in our business too much, or is it that we don’t know where to start?

It's 4 months to Christmas and that means year end too! Are you on target to hit your year-end sales target? Perhaps a better question is how have you performed against your target so far this year?