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Business Growth and Transitions with Designer Alexandra Olsen
Do you want to know what business growth really looks like? An organic, values-led way, without the made-up hype and marketing spins? Or how do you discern when it's time for your business model to pivot? Or how to navigate making changes to your offerings that...
Value Based Pricing: Is It Right For You And Your Business?
Today specifically I wanted to mention Value Based Pricing, especially for service providers, digital product providers and other products or services that have very little ongoing or variable expenses related to them. I know that pricing in general can be tough for...
Pricing Strategies For Kind And Considerate Business Owners
There are not many certainties in life, but if you own your own business, a moment will arise where you have no option but to...set your prices. How you go about setting these prices is called your pricing strategy. And I know many business owners who wish...
How Fixing Your Pricing Strategy Can Help Heal (or Prevent) Burnout
I think a business’s pricing strategy is such an important topic. Not only is it the first touch point of money in a business, but it feels like it is greatly misunderstood. In a more modern context a business’s pricing strategy has been used as part of a...
Apparently You Gotta ‘Charge What You’re Worth’
I believe it’s time to stop saying ‘Charge What You're Worth’ and instead say ‘Charge what is necessary for a sustainable and profitable business.’ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Have you noticed all these cute memes around that say “Charge what you're worth and add tax”? Disclaimer: when...
How the Inner Critic holds us back {Interview With Delphine O’Keefe}
There's are times in business and life when we feel like we've plateaued or are stuck in indecision. Working out the next step or what path to take can feel difficult or unclear. After speaking with Delphine one day, I realised that I was the one creating these...
Choosing The Key Elements Of Your Business
Many businesses begin when we see a product, service or knowledge gap in the marketplace and decide we have the skills or desire to fill it. You start with the product or service, work out a price and then get it into the hands of the customer. You make sure that...
How To Know If You’re Experiencing A Biz-Life Crisis
I started talking and writing about Biz-Life Crises when I noticed that the way we are running our businesses was starting to impact our health, relationships and lives. The entrepreneur's dream could no longer sustain these clients that were approaching me....
Why Focusing On Your Financial Wellness Is A Radical Act
In a world where debt and financial stress is the norm, being financially well is a radical act. It is the start of a grassroots movement. A way to exercise our economic power. I was chatting with two business owners recently and I mentioned my reason for switching...
A Minimalist Approach To Making And Managing Money In Your Business
One of my goals is to help business owners make and manage money in their business, their own way, all while designing sustainable and profitable businesses. The key word here is sustainable. Our businesses should not negatively impact our lives, health, others or the...
A 6 Month Business Money Plan
"He explained that he had calculated what he needed to make in profit in order to cover his cost of living and put a decent amount of money into investments. He had figured out the amount of wealth he needed to be comfortable...past that, he didn't need any more money...
Why Financial Goals May Not Be Motivating You In Business
We are running businesses in an era where we are being told higher revenue, bigger goals and infinite growth are indicators of success. Yet there a trend that financial goals are no longer motivating business owners on a day-to-day basis. During a strategy session or...
Benefits Of A Monthly Financial Review
I've explained to many clients the benefits of creating a practice of a monthly financial review in your business. Not only does it give you a great birds-eye view on what is happening in your business. It encourages business owners to pause and reflect on how the...
Why Talking Reduces Stress And Is a Catalyst For Change {Interview With Natajsa Wagner}
Humans are naturally geared to talk, to converse with others and to exist in community. In my work with business owners, I have noticed that these interactions are MORE essential to creating change than most other actions we take. When business owners isolate...
How Do I Price My Products And Services?
Pricing your products and services as a business owner can be a confusing task. But I hope to clear it up with a post to give an overview on how you can do it confidently, your way. With your 'End Goal' in mind, for you, your customers and how you want your...
How Can I Increase My Prices?
There are times in business that we feel we can't increase our prices any higher. And without the increase in prices, we may not reach our desired income levels, or provide for the lifestyle we wish to live. There are times when we work locally, and the local...
How Do I Increase Prices When My Business Partner Doesn’t Want To?
Recently I was asked this very interesting question. It doesn't have to be a business partner, it can be a partner at home, a business friend, colleague, someone else in a complimentary industry, someone offering the same product/service, or it can even be the...
How Money Is Changing
I've noticed that money management nowadays has become confusing, unclear and overwhelming. It is no longer a mere exchange of coins and notes at the same time we receive a product or service. HAVE YOU NOTICED SOME OF THE CHANGES? Money has changed and...
A Book List to Make And Manage Money Differently In Business
There are many financial resources available on the market. And many are finance and business books. but if you're not an avid reader, or finance topics are not your usual choice of reading material, then here is a summary of some very useful books. And in...
A Quick Pricing Calculation
There are times when you can over-think financial decisions in your business, to your detriment. Pricing decisions and strategy is a topic that commonly causes business owners a few headaches. It can lead to procrastination in putting out your new offer or...
Business Financials: From Not Sure To Nailing It
Business financials can be well... confusing or overwhelming. And it's not generally taught to new business owners, or seasoned ones. It's through trial and error that most business owners work out their own 'rule-of-thumb' when it comes to making and managing money...
4 Ways To Work Smarter, Not Harder
In today’s world, we spend a lot of time in business focusing on volume of sales. Have you walked into a shopping centre and checked out the clothes racks lately? They are so full, hangers fall to the floor as you try to take one off the shelf. This high-volume world...
3 Must-Do Financial Tasks
If you’ve spent endless hours setting up your business and working super hard to make sales, when it comes to getting your financials sorted, you hope hiring a bookkeeper and doing your tax is enough. I’m here to let you know, this is only 1 of 3 important tasks you...
5 Unusual Roles of an Accountant
This may sound familiar... You've started a business and the first 'tax period' comes around. So you head off to your tax accountant with your shoe box full of receipts. The tax accountant tells you to see a bookkeeper to get your books in order so you're less...
How Many Figures Is Your Business? (And Why It Doesn’t Really Matter)
There is a trend I’ve noticed lately in marketing in terms of ‘number of figures’. ‘I’m a 6-figure business! or ‘grow a 7-figure business like me in 7 days!’ I've heard it referred to as 'Revenue Marketing'...and it is a pet peeve of mine. Not because I have a...
Your Monthly Financial Review
I'm just finishing up my Monthly Reporting clients and we've been discussing how last month went. It's a process we go through every month. Sitting down and discussing what worked and what didn't work. What are the figures telling us, what is the financial...
The Micro Effect – Small Decisions, Big Results!
THINK SMALL, SERIOUSLY. There’s not many finance professionals out there that tell you to 'think small', but on this occasion, I am! For good reason though – it has taken many ‘micro’ decisions to get where you are today in life and business. Thousands of...
Why Managing Cash in Your Business is Getting Harder
MONEY IN, MONEY OUT – IT’S THAT EASY, RIGHT? Cash flow management can be one of the trickiest parts of running a business. Even well established businesses get this wrong. Without available cash, how do you make good business decisions? Your choices are limited. HOW...
6 Lessons from Lean Times
I’m sure you’re not surprised to hear that many of my clients make their way into my business life when their financial situation doesn’t feel as good as they want it to. I would say that the majority of the clients I work closely with begin when they’re in a position...
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