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BUSINESS ADVICE
A business advice summary from what I am reading and learning
Business Advice Posts
Every working person needs business advice. Whether you are in a company, enterprise or start up you can learn from other peoples’ business advice. Now I am not saying I have the answers to everything. What I am saying is that when we learn from other peoples’ business advice then perhaps we get a ‘step up’. A free kick.
I read a lot and go to many seminars and conferences. Part of my entrepreneurial journey is learning from trial and error. There are so many things to learn. For me I write them here in a selection of blog posts so that I can maybe assist others on his or her leadership journey.
It will be difficult for me to know which, if any, of these posts will touch move and inspire you to be a better leader. The thing is with business advice, or any advice for that matter, it only works if you adapt it to your owner circumstances. There is no quick fix. There is no easy way.
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Reading my business advice blog posts might well help you find an answer that you did not know you were looking for.
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Catch up your business advice reading in the following chapters.
Getting ready for Shark Tank Season 2
In the lead up to heading back into the Shark Tank for another period of filming for this inspirational Australian made business reality show, I thought I would share a few thoughts on how to prepare for your day in the Tank (or for everyone else, pitching your idea...
RedBalloon 2.0
What do the following music albums have in common? Carole King’s ‘Tapestry’, Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Axis: Bold as Love’, Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ and Bob Dylan’s ‘The Freewhelin’? If you’re a music wiz, you might know that these are the critically acclaimed second albums of the...
The ‘customer gets customer’ rule for start-up valuation
As we head toward Sunday night and the new time of 9.00 on Channel Ten's Shark Tank I wonder how many pitches will be considering how customers find customers. For the telephone to be successful, the owner of the phone needed to have friends who also had the device......
How I got hooked on a peg – called HEG
This article first appeared in BRW in the week following the airing of Episode 5 of Shark Tank Australia. When the double doors open and someone walks through the Shark Tank ready to start their pitch, there are a number of things that go through my mind. Do I know...
Love them or they will leave you
It was great to have a $2 million pitch on TEN’s Shark Tank a few weeks ago. It was a business with a track record, a solid customer base and a clear vision for growth. Not to mention Stan Kruss, the founder, was an extremely polished presenter. When Andrew Banks...
Best Advice: Persistence (from Live What You Love)
Persistence - extract from Live What You Love When asked to contribute to this special LinkedIn Influencer content edition - I knew I had to share some of what I have written in my about to be released book "Live What You Love" I headed it up "Best Advice: Get in the...
"I stand here asking for your help please.."
Recently, I wrote about my experience on Shark Tank, and reminiscing with the other sharks about our early days in business. When we all start out, the things we learn most from is our mistakes - some more expensive than others. Some of the contestants on Shark Tank...
Productivity Hacks: Happy People Are Productive People
I’m not being flippant here in suggesting that being happy is my "hack". When the editors of LinkedIn sent out the brief requesting our insights into the productivity hacks that we use, I looked at all the things I do, from shared document reporting, to online diary...