Small Business | Teik Oh

Decided To Start Your Own Business? What Next?

Jul 21 2020

Have you had enough of working for someone else and decided to start your own business?

Have you just started a new business and it’s in its infancy?

In either case, you may be asking yourself the question “well, here I am, what next?”

Let’s go through a logical number of things you should do when you have decided to start your own business, or even if you have already started but are a bit overwhelmed in those early days.

By the way, I’ve written a free report and checklist about starting your own business which you can get from here.

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Small Business in COVID-19: Annual Business Planning

Jun 02 2020

Here we are in June and COVID-19 is still with us in some form or other.

For many small businesses, we are still in or starting recovery mode. To use the war analogy, the wounds are still sore and we are wary.

As I engage with Teik Oh Dot Com’s members who are using our online products, a large proportion are still working from home, or have rostered their team into the office to keep numbers down. Things are still quiet and it is clear that “normality” is a long way away.

This sense of being quiet and watching to see what will happen can lead to a dead-end though!

Now, more than ever, it’s true that “if you do nothing, a very strange thing happens – nothing!”

So, despite business being quiet, despite our fears and worries making us psychologically frozen, despite not knowing what’s around the corner, we still need to plan ahead.

Here’s what you need to do.

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Three Reasons Why Leadership Grows Your Business

May 26 2020

As a small business owner, you may be up to your armpits in fixing a bushfire or working after hours keeping up with the bookkeeping.

You hear about people saying that a business needs leadership to guide it to success and maybe you think that’s fine for some but in the real world, it’s pretty much BS!

Where have you got the time?

And anyway you own and run a small business. At best you only have a handful of people working for you and they seem to be doing what they’re told!

Well, let me take a few minutes of your time and show you why Leadership will help you grow your business into the successful business you want – that successful business you dream about but maybe don’t really think you can build.

I’ll give you three reasons why Leadership grows your business.

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Small Business in COVID-19: Planning Your Way To Recovery

May 19 2020

It looks like more and more restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic are being relaxed.

For those of us in small business, this is great news.

Some of us may still be wary and worried about contracting the disease as these restrictions are lifted, but even so, we’ll be relieved we can try to get back to business as usual.

But you probably know as I do, that this will take time.

So, it’s important to take some steps now so that we are as prepared as possible for the time when all restrictions are removed.

I have five things for you to think about.

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Small Business in COVID-19: Marketing During COVID-19

May 12 2020

Last week I wrote about four strategies to employ during the current pandemic crisis to keep your business going.

This week I wanted to talk about how you can still continue marketing during the crisis.

First of all, let’s get this straight – I have heard a lot of people say that they feel awkward marketing during the crisis because they feel everyone is in the same boat.

That’s only half true – everyone is in the same boat, but why does that equate to not doing business?

So, let’s look at how you can still conduct your marketing even during the lockdown.

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Decided To Start Your Own Business? What Next?

Small Business in COVID-19: Annual Business Planning

Three Reasons Why Leadership Grows Your Business

Small Business in COVID-19: Planning Your Way To Recovery

Small Business in COVID-19: Marketing During COVID-19