Expert advice

Starting a business

• Tips for finding the perfect business name
• Goals and vision
• Starting a family and starting a business
• Find strength in your weakness
• The idea of ideas
• The innovator trap
• Finding the gap in your marketing

Working the numbers

• Let the cash flow in
• Questions to ask when you are faced with bad debt
• Not worth the risk
• Mind the gap
• Three ways to bridge the cash gap
• Is it deductible?
• Business angels
• Don't give it all away

Learnings from business owners

• Ideas for success
• The house that Jack built
• A man with attitude
• Franchise success
• Retail therapy

Leaving a business

• Five steps to getting rid of the boss (when you are the boss)
• Succession planning

Hiring, firing and managing

• In search of the future
• Building a support team
• Learning how to hire right
• Be good to your staff and they will be good to you
• Getting to grips with outsourcing
• When it’s time to go

Growing a business

• Will you do it for less?
• Five commitments to help constantly improve
• Keeping a tab on your feelings
• Getting the most out of meetings
• Impulsive Marketing
• How to plan a mini revolution
• Look out, Gordon Ramsay is heading your way!
• Do you want or need growth?
• Getting a foot in the door with big business
• Great businesses start at home
• Lifetime value
• When a solo simply has to go
• Making money by giving it away
• Are you investing for success?
• You've got a shop front what are you going to sell?
• Improving your search engine ranking
• Search engine marketing for small business
• The hats you need to wear
• Having belief in what you sell
• The role of the annual report in micro business
• Business messaging: Perfecting the right tone and voice