How do you get that first customer when you’re just starting out in business. Most often small business owners get entrenched in the processes of getting the business off the ground but “HOW” they are going to get that first customers doesn’t always come up until they’ve set out their stall and put up the… Continue Reading
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Small Business Profits : 4 Factors That May be Affecting Your Cash
Usually when someone mentions how bad business is, there’s one major factor that usually comes to my mind as the possible reason why that may be. Whilst factors such as your branding, targeting, and all of that do play a part, the main factor that usually determines the health of a business is SALES. Listen… Continue Reading
Seasonal Profits Drama – How to deal with the feast or famine Nightmare
As small business owners, how do you or deal with the dreaded feast or famine drama and the inconsistent cash flow issues that arise from this? Listen To the Podcast [audio: http://www.mintedcreative.com/podcast/minted-business-episode-03.mp3] Read It Instead Harriet from Essex writes I have a two-year-old company that produces wedding fairs. We’ve had some success, but… Continue Reading
How to Deal With Competition
How to deal with competition that comes from someone who used to work for you in your small business What do you do when the competition you face in your small business has come from someone who used to work with you or worse still, FOR you in your business? This week’s Minted Business Q… Continue Reading
Breakdown & Breakthroughs – Where Do I Start?
There’s so much to do when you’re starting a small business that the hardest part may actually be figuring out what to do first. You’ve got so many great ideas, you think they all seem possible, you start trying to juggle so many things because you can’t seem to make up your mind which idea… Continue Reading
Spotlight Sessions: Feast or Famine – How to Stop your business dry spell in its tracks
Question: “…I need help with stopping the feast or famine situation in my business. I find that the problem I seem to have is that at certain times in the year, everything seems to work great. There’s money coming in and there seems to be so much work that I sometimes have to turn people… Continue Reading