by Online Business Training Courses | Thursday, September 4, 2014 | Business Secrets, News, small business management
Even though people primarily stay in contact with each other by email – and in business, it’s become one of the preferred ways to stay in contact with customers, clients and suppliers – the telephone is still a very important mode of communication, and that’s why we...
by Online Business Training Courses | Friday, August 29, 2014 | 06 Plan small Business Finances, Business Secrets, News, small business management, training courses
This is the last post in a series of posts about financial planning for small business, which coincide with a module on planning small business finances from our Small Business Management Course. Here, we’re going to look at the most important part of the financial...
by Online Business Training Courses | Wednesday, August 27, 2014 | 06 Plan small Business Finances, Business Secrets, News, small business management, training courses
We’re been publishing a series of posts about financial planning for small businesses, which is also a module in our Small Business Management course. We recently looked at the very important aspect of any healthy business: cash flow, which brings us to another way of...
by Online Business Training Courses | Monday, August 18, 2014 | 06 Plan small Business Finances, Business Secrets, News, small business management, training courses
In our series of posts about financial planning, we’ve been talking about each of the crucial ingredients you need to include in your business’s financial plan. We’ve discussed using a financial spreadsheet for sales forecasting; now let’s take a look...
by Online Business Training Courses | Saturday, August 16, 2014 | 06 Plan small Business Finances, Business Secrets, Business Tools, News, small business management, training courses
We’ve talked about financial planning in previous posts and in our last post specifically covered sales forecasting. In our Small Business Management Course, you will learn, in much greater detail, how to create a financial plan for your business, but we thought...
by Online Business Training Courses | Thursday, August 14, 2014 | 06 Plan small Business Finances, Business Secrets, News, small business management, training courses
We’re publishing a series of posts about financial planning for small business and in our most recent post about ongoing capital purchases and running costs we mentioned creating a financial spreadsheet to track all of your expenses, which we’re going to talk about in...
by Online Business Training Courses | Tuesday, August 5, 2014 | 06 Plan small Business Finances, Business Secrets, News, small business management, training courses
We’ve published a series of posts on financial planning and now let’s take a look at the ongoing capital costs and ongoing running costs for a small business. We mentioned in a previous post that it’s vital for every small business to create a financial...
by Online Business Training Courses | Friday, August 1, 2014 | 03 Legal & Risk Management, 04 Protect & Use Intangible Assets, 14 Productivity, News, small business management, training courses
In our last post we talked about the various different kinds of legal agreements you may come across when you’re in business. It’s important that every business owner properly understands the legal contracts they’re entering into, which is why we cover general law in...
by Online Business Training Courses | Thursday, July 31, 2014 | 03 Legal & Risk Management, 04 Protect & Use Intangible Assets, 14 Productivity, News, small business management, training courses
The legal aspect of any business, big or small, can be fairly daunting, but we cover this in our Small Business Management course. One part of the legal system of operating a business every business owner should be familiar with is contract law, or legal agreements....
by Online Business Training Courses | Wednesday, July 2, 2014 | 06 Plan small Business Finances, Business Secrets, News, small business management, training courses
For many people who decide to go into business, they often don’t give much thought to their finances beyond just wanting to turn a profit. What they fail to realise is that the key to turning a profit is creating a financial plan. A financial plan acts as a sort of...
by Online Business Training Courses | Thursday, June 26, 2014 | 11 Selling your products or services, News, small business management
Everyone wants more customers — it’s every business owner’s main focus and it’s something we cover in some detail in the Selling Your Products and Services module of our Small Business Management Course. But at what point are too many sales or customers too much to...
by Online Business Training Courses | Monday, June 16, 2014 | News, training courses, Wordpress
The only thing worse than being subjected to a yawn-fest PowerPoint presentation is being the person giving the yawn-fest PowerPoint presentation. Creating the perfect PowerPoint presentation is a lot like creating the perfect website — it needs to be both engaging...