Run your business from anywhere

Now you are on the move You no longer need to be in the same place as your clients to run your business. You can run your business from anywhere, as near or as far from everything as you want. Of course, that’s not to say you don’t need to check-in with everyone from time to time! That’s where your system comes in. Wherever you are, you know all you need is an internet connection to instantly get…

Q&A: “Hmmm What Is A CRM Again?”

  If you’ve stumbled across this or one of our recent blog posts and you’re a tad confused then you’ve come to the right place! Even better, if you’ve read a few of our posts and can see they’re connected by a theme that you can’t quite put your finger on, it’s because they are! We are currently producing a blog series called A-Z of CRMs, as CRM customisations are among what we do here…

Becoming location independent

What does business freedom mean to you? Every business owner we meet has their own definition for business freedom. Maybe you want to pick and choose the hours you work, invest more time into the hobbies you love or create the business of your dreams. Whatever your ultimate goal, becoming a location independent business is usually a key step in the journey to business freedom. Being truly free means you can run your business from…

Why You Should Nail the Networking Knack

  We’re very excited this week as we’re attending The HD8 Business Show and delivering a small seminar exploring solutions that enable small businesses to operate in a location independent capacity. I’ll also be discussing how to easily pass on the knowledge business owners have stored in their busy brains to others in their team so they can delegate more and dedicate more focus to leading. I’m looking forward to it but do you know…

Promote To Help, Not To Sell: 3 Tips!

  Do you know what happens when I Google the word ‘promote?’ No mention of the word ‘selling’ appears, zilch, nada, absolutely none. Instead, the all-knowing, life-saving oracle that is Google talks of “supporting or actively encouraging a cause or venture” and “furthering the progress of something.” Yes, there is an aspect of ‘promotion’ in the work sales and marketing departments in businesses do- both of which overlap but the definition for ‘smarketing’ is a blog…

Communicate effectively in the digital age

Never lose touch again Have you ever had a project delayed just because one person was out of the office and nobody knew what was happening? Lost an important business card? Or had trouble deciphering your own notes one week on from a meeting? In the digital age, it’s easy to build a system that allows everyone in your business to communicate effectively. Great systems boost collaboration between team members, simplify following up with clients…

How to work from anywhere

Have you ever worked from home? From a café?  From a train? Today you can work from just about anywhere. You can run a conference call from your living room in the morning, or from your car if you’re stuck in traffic. Or you can even skip the commute entirely and just access all of your work files at home. It’s your choice! Run your business on the move With the right systems in place,…

Organisation: The Secret to Long Term Success

  People generally fall into two camps when it comes to organisation. They’re either very uber-organised or else completely scatterbrained, scraping through, meeting (or missing!) deadlines just in the nick of time. When it comes to whether we want to be organised we fall into one black- and-white camp: we all want to be organised. Why wouldn’t you? Being more organised= feeling being more prepared=feeling less nervous=being more confident in a meeting or presentation or working more…

Normally Nomadic – What being a Digital Nomad really means…

I read A LOT of articles about being a digital nomad. Leaving the corporate world behind and seeing the world sounds exciting, but what is the reality? Well, you probably won’t get rich, and you’ll pull your hair out when you can’t get decent WiFi, that’s for sure. You’ll also work long hours at times and be forced to be productive when you least feel like it. I have seen a decent amount of the world nonetheless….