September | 2021

Growing Your Business With A Strategic Plan

Sep 28 2021

This is the second part of our series on growing your small business once your startup is established.

If you missed our series on how to start your own small business, you can go here to read the first article in that series.

The first part of this series on growing your small business can be found here.

This week, we are going to look at how preparing a long-term Strategic Plan as an overview of your strategic direction (where you want to end up and how you want to get there) can help you keep on track as you grow.

In your growth phase, you will meet many challenges and just as many decisions. Where will you open a store next? Who should you hire? Your supplier is going out of business – how do you choose a replacement? Should you rent your new premises or buy? Should you take on a partner?

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Growing Your Business – Measure Everything

Sep 21 2021

We have completed our series of blog posts on starting your small business, but if you have missed any of those articles and you want to teach yourself about the steps to take when you are starting a small business, I’ll put the links to those articles at the end of this post.

Today we are starting our series on growing your small business. Having started successfully, you are not turning your attention to growing your business.

One of your most important tasks of this stage is to set yourself milestones in the growth of your business so that you can recognise when you have reached various points of success. When should I hire more staff? When will reach a point in my profits when I can invest in more equipment? When do I start paying off my startup loan? When should I look to open a new store?

These are the types of questions you should identify answers to at the start of your growth so that you can recognise them and know what to do next.

This is why one of your most important tasks, other than writing your Strategic and Business Plans, is to measure everything.

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Starting A Small Business and Making Workflows Automatic

Sep 14 2021

Welcome back to our series on Starting a Small Business. If you have missed our earlier blog instalments, you might want to check on these:-

Starting a Small Business – Make Sure You Know Why

Starting a Small Business – What To Think About

Starting a Small Business – How Do I Start?

Starting a Small Business – With A Feasibility Check

Starting a Small Business – With a Plan

Starting a Small Business – Hiring Your First Employees

This week, we are going to look at how you can make some of your important workflows automatic so that you can boost efficiency in your startup.

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Starting A Small Business – Hiring Your First Employees

Sep 07 2021

Welcome to our series on starting your small business.

In the past weeks, we have looked at getting clear why you are starting your business, what you need to think about before you start, how you actually start a small business, preparing a feasibility check on your idea, and starting with a written business plan.

This week, we are going to look at hiring your first employees.

It doesn’t matter how big or small your small business is, at some point, probably sooner than you think, you will need to hire employees. They may be full time, part-time or even casual staff, but at some time in the early days of the business, you will realise the need to leverage your time to grow the business. There may be some skills that you do not have or simply more hands that you need.

In this article, we are going to look at some regulatory preparation, how to prepare your business for employees, how to interview them, and how to onboard them into the business.

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