by Buck Samrai | Sep 9, 2019 | Business Start-up, Phone Answering, Small Business Planning
Small businesses and the new startups usually find it very stressful to arrange for a proper place to meet their clients, conduct board meetings and many other such things just because they don’t have the space needed. So, what these businesses usually do is...
by Michelle | Sep 9, 2019 | Uncategorised
Searching office space for small business may have specific limitations, directly influencing decisions for your primary search. Selecting the right place for your small business remains the essence of the search when you think about the ideal office space. It is...
by Buck Samrai | Aug 16, 2019 | Business growth, Business Start-up, Great Service, Phone Answering, Small Business Planning
When you first start your business, it’s exciting when the phone rings – it might be a client- hooray. But as your business grows, it’s like the phone starts to interrupt your train of thought, so, you think, you’ve reached a point where you finally have the finances...
by Michelle | Aug 14, 2019 | Flexibility, Freeing up time, Life Balance, Phone Answering, Uncategorised
Running a small business is hard work. For many, both men and women, the work seems to outweigh the reward. But It’s okay because running your own business delivers a great big dollop of work-life balance, doesn’t it? Actually, according to the ABS, no, no it...
by Buck Samrai | Aug 9, 2019 | Business growth
It’s March – did that just strike fear into your heart? Yep, depending on what day you read this, it’s more than 1/6th of the way through the year. Remember those plans you had for new projects, growth, taking ‘Fridays off’ just to show that you really are in charge...
by Michelle | Aug 9, 2019 | Customer Experience
Should you automate your customer point of contact? The other day I was talking to a client, and she runs a reflexology clinic. Her customers love her. She told me a marketing ‘guru’ had suggested she remove her phone number and just add an automated booking app onto...
by Buck Samrai | Aug 9, 2019 | Customer Experience, Do what you're great at, Entrepreneurs
Getting past social media overwhelm Social media’s delivery of a daily highlight reel of your competitors’ wins makes it easy to think you’re falling behind. And then there are the stories of the unicorn founders who went against convention, dropped out of university,...
by Michelle | Aug 9, 2019 | Do what you're great at, Flexibility, Freeing up time, Life Balance, Outsourced Admin
Yes, it’s the season to be jolly and most of us are flat out with Christmas shopping, finalizing holidays, hosting/attending parties – personal and professional. Oh and then there’s the crazy business ‘miracles’ that need to be performed before the world...
by Buck Samrai | Aug 8, 2019 | Do what you're great at, Freeing up time, Life Balance
Balance, schmalance: Why Swedish Lagom is better for your business Now you’re probably thinking what the heck is Lagom? Lagom is a Swedish word meaning ‘just the right amount’ (aka enough, sufficient, adequate). In other words, rather than ‘balance’ which is almost...
by Michelle | Aug 7, 2019 | Coworking, Customer Experience, Uncategorised
Private Offices with open plans come out on top You may have read my previous post about the failure of open offices. This was based on a Harvard study, which found that the key ingredient to the whole scheme was unwarranted. Open-plan offices do not increase...