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14 – How to take a holiday when you own a Small Business
We discuss why it is important for business owners to take a holiday.
It is pretty important for you to get out of the business to recharge your batteries and make sure that you aren’t burning out. It is also important to get out of the business to reflect on the business…
13 – Your competitors are offshoring – Should you?
Call routing has made it a lot easier for small business to be able to offshore.
Logitech Web cams – we talk about the C930 webcam. This is a really cool and simple piece of tech that I use for video conferencing as well as the Facebook lives that I do. It natively supports green screen which is pretty cool. Webcams make a big difference when you are teleconferencing and this one works really well…
12 – Application Development for Small Business – Profiting from your Bright Ideas
In Tech Focus we look at Microsoft Power BI. We have been using Power BI to pull information from line of business application. At Extreme we can see who has been entering their timesheets, who has been working with which customers and what billings each engineer has. This updates in real time and display it on one of our monitors that is mounted on the wall. This means that everyone can see how the team and each individual is performing…
11 – How to market a boring Small Business – Part II
In Tech Focus we look at our new Acer Acer Veriton M6640G. Straight out of the box it supports the 4 monitors that I need to drive. Pretty much silent and driven by a super power Core i7 CPU bringing a lot more power for the video editing and other work that I do…
10 – How to market a boring Small Business
We look at modern marketing and some of the tactics that we have used to be able to grow our business.
In Tech Focus, we look at my new Acer Great Wall of Data. I’ve put 4 x 27″ Acer monitors, with a special monitor stand. This has enabled me to create content a lot quicker because I can not only have multiple windows open, but I can see the windows I need with the information that I need. It is also great for customer meetings, being able to have all the data that we are talking about at the one time…
9 – The Secrets of Successful Business Planning
In Tech Focus we look at Trello. This is a great piece of freemium software, that
For annual business planning we look at the process that we use.
We look at the plan that we had for the last year and how we did with those.
8 – Building a great business with the Business Model Canvas
This week we look at the Business Model Canvas. I think this is one of the great ways that you can look at your business in a different way.
In Tech Focus, we talk about Zoom. Zoom is the tool that we use for our Teams to communicate. We have found it to be more reliable than Skype and a better tool to communicate with less of the hassles…
Building a great team with Nick Sarillo
Nick Sarillo is an expert in building a great culture. He run's Nick's Pizza and Pub in Chicago. It is America's third largest independent pizza Restaurant. Nick was a building by trade (he built the restaurant!) and he has taken the skills from his...
6 – DISC profiling with Ray Strongman
We look at building a KPI dashboard and displaying them with the 4K Kogan TVs.
In this episode, we interview Ray Strongman, who is a business coach and is an expert on DISC profiling. Ray has been doing DISC training for years and does the DISC training for our customers.
5 – The $250,000 mistake that I made with Culture and how you can avoid it in your Small Business.
We talk about Culture and I go through the huge mistake that I made at Extreme Networks by not focusing on growing a great culture at the company. Our company was going along brilliantly, was featured in the BRW Fast 100. After that, I defocused and my laissez faire leadership style meant that stronger personalities in the team were able to mould the culture of our company…