Mechanic Meets Marketing Guru...Peter Rowe | Wednesday, 1 July 2009 At age 35 with three transmissions shops and a staff of 20, I was drawing a professional manager’s salary and making what I thought was a “reasonable” profit. I owned ... |
Free Enterprise - Literally...Judi Reid | Monday, 29 June 2009 (From the Bristol Evening Post): Outside Bristol Zoo is the car park, with spaces for 150 cars and 8 coaches. It has been manned 6 days a week for 23 ... |
Relationship Marketing - Strategic Allia...Sarah Dyson | Thursday, 25 June 2009 In a former lifetime the MD of ProfiTune, Peter Rowe, developed and marketed workshop management software for the automotive trade and, in that era his friend, Mark Boyce, developed vehicle ... |
Kaizen - Gradual Improvement...Peter Rowe | Wednesday, 24 June 2009 Kaizen is the concept of making continuous incremental (small) improvements to a working concept until it nears perfection. The progression from early post-war Toyota vehicles to the Lexus is a ... |
Code of Conduct or Raffety's Rules...Judi Reid | Monday, 22 June 2009 If you don't have a written Code of Conduct (or Team Charter) then the people in your team are making it up as they go, and you can expect some ... |
Small Business Stress Kills Early...Peter Rowe | Monday, 22 June 2009 If you own/manage a small or medium business, you are working around 25% more hours than you were 10 years ago - and using an older (and probably less fit) ... |
email Marketing Backfires on Bank...Peter Rowe | Sunday, 21 June 2009 Oops! A UK bank recently alienated 2000 of its richest and most valued customers after deciding to use a new electronic mail system to market a new range of services ... |
MIS & KISS – A Sign of the Times...Judi Reid | Friday, 19 June 2009 Time to read this article: 2.5 mins)Two of Australia’s multi-million dollar Managed Investment Schemes (MISs) are in liquidation, partly because of a mistake by the Tax Office who... |
Rules for Surviving Anything in Business...Peter Rowe | Friday, 19 June 2009 (Time to read this article: 4 mins)It’s interesting to watch the fallout from the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and see that my clients in small and medium businesses are doing ... |
Beware the 5 Stages of Decline...Peter Rowe | Friday, 19 June 2009 (Time to read this article: 3 mins)The author of one of the all-time Great Business Books (Good to Great) has done it again. Jim Collins has now looked at how ... |
Australian Banks Are Failing ...Judi Reid | Thursday, 18 June 2009 (Time to read this article: 5 mins)OK, so I used a lurid headline to get your attention and now that I have it here’s the real headline: Australian Banks Are ... |
Debtor Tips ...Judi Reid | Wednesday, 17 June 2009 (Time to read this article: Less than 1 min) Check your Aged Debtors Report weekly (as opposed to “weakly”) in the current climate. Ring anyone who is overdue on the day they ... |
First Diploma of Business Coaching...Judi Reid | Tuesday, 16 June 2009 On 1 June 2009 ProfiTune International were granted accreditation under the federal Australian Quality Training Framework for its nationally-recognized Diploma of Business ... |
Half the money you spend on Marketing is...Peter Rowe | Tuesday, 12 May 2009 Half the money you spend on Marketing is wasted - but which ... |
Your Chance to Partner with Bill Gates...Peter Rowe | Thursday, 7 May 2009 After 20 years of hard work, Rotary and its partners are on the brink of wiping out the crippling disease of polio from the world, but a strong push is ... |
Some Thoughts on Passion and Leadership...Peter Rowe | Thursday, 7 May 2009 If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.Benjamin ... |
On a Lighter Note...Peter Rowe | Thursday, 7 May 2009 Following on the theme set by Robert Fulghum's "All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten", I thought you'd enjoy the ProfiTune spin on "All I Really Need ... |
Thoughts On The Subject Of Stress And Ch...Peter Rowe | Thursday, 7 May 2009 You are a 'camel' (we all are) so you know that no single straw weighs much on its own but you know that it pays to count the straws!... |
On the Lighter Side...Peter Rowe | Thursday, 7 May 2009 Last week a friend of mine went to a seminar called "Stress and Disease" by Dr. Nickolas Hall, an expert in psychobiology. He gave an example of a coping skill ... |
Thoughts on the Subject of Cash...Peter Rowe | Thursday, 7 May 2009 Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money. Joey ... |
Thoughts About Change...Peter Rowe | Thursday, 7 May 2009 He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.Harold ... |
Thoughts on Employment & Commitment...Peter Rowe | Thursday, 7 May 2009 Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties.Henry David ... |
Thoughts on Marketing....Peter Rowe | Thursday, 7 May 2009 Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does. Stuart Henderson ... |
Hoax Hoax Warnings...Peter Rowe | Thursday, 7 May 2009 Occasionally a weather cycle in the natural world will bring a plague of mice or moths or caterpillars and in a not-dissimilar fashion a cyber world cycle will occasionally bring ... |
Christmas De~stress Program...Peter Rowe | Thursday, 7 May 2009 If you're one of those good souls who plans (most of) their business days to ensure that you achieve your goals and move your business forward, are you as thorough ... |
Being Happy...Peter Rowe | Thursday, 7 May 2009 The so-called "news media" devotes 90% of its time and space to the bottom 2% of the population - the 2% who lie to, cheat, steal from, assault and kill ... |
15 Things to Derive On a Drive...Peter Rowe | Thursday, 7 May 2009 If your work puts you on the road for hours a week, we have some simple strategies for making that time behind the wheel more productive and enjoyable. We have ... |
Distressed or De~stressed, Your Choice...Peter Rowe | Thursday, 7 May 2009 Business coaches often become aware of stress in their clients before the clients themselves can put a label on their changed behaviours and mindset. With the factors in the market ... |
Goal Setting, Strategic Visioning, Missi...Peter Rowe | Thursday, 7 May 2009 For each of the past three years, it's seemed appropriate to lead the January eNews with an article on Goal Setting, and to provide a Goal Setting template to get ... |
Web Profitability = Visibility + Credibi...Peter Rowe | Thursday, 7 May 2009 In a very real sense, if you're in business today, a key part of your "presence in the marketplace" is your "web print" - your footprint or visibility on the ... |
Low Cost, High Impact Marketing...Peter Rowe | Thursday, 7 May 2009 Most people in business have nutted out a way of selling or they would not have survived to this point. There may not be a lot of science in the ... |
Passion Polarises People...Peter Rowe | Thursday, 7 May 2009 We often enjoy the privilege of working with fast-growing businesses and their emerging leadership teams as most have realised that the rate of growth of their leaders controls the rate ... |
Stress...Peter Rowe | Thursday, 7 May 2009 "Global financial crisis!", "world business slowdown!", "international banking collapse!", if you haven't been pummelled by the doom and gloom merchants over the last couple of months, you must have been ... |
Three More Productivity Basics...Peter Rowe | Thursday, 7 May 2009 In the November '08 edition we nominated "Increase Your Productivity" as one of only four ways to increase profits and then focused down onto increasing "human productivity" by acknowledging ten ... |
The Times, They Are A Changing...Peter Rowe | Wednesday, 6 May 2009 It's funny, Nature has trained us to accept the changing of its seasons, and you don't hear too many people exclaiming, as Nature contracts, "Oh no! What's gone wrong? Another ... |
The Three Stages of a Downturn...Peter Rowe | Wednesday, 6 May 2009 In a study of 375 of the Fortune 500 companies, Bain & Company identified three stages to a downturn and two contrary behaviours to each stage. The stages ... |
The Upside of a Down Market...Peter Rowe | Wednesday, 6 May 2009 Unemployment in Australia is currently hovering around 5% and while low unemployment is both an economically and socially desirable goal, from a commercial point of view, very low unemployment makes ... |
Directors Responsibilties...Peter Rowe | Wednesday, 6 May 2009 |
Productivity - A Path to Profit ...Peter Rowe | Wednesday, 6 May 2009 Leaving aside profits from outside investments, there are only four ways in which you can increase your ... |
Cashflow Options - Debtor Finance...Peter Rowe | Wednesday, 6 May 2009 A Debtor Finance Facility may be the answer to unlocking the true cashflow potential for your business according to Bank of Queensland's Marissa ... |
Engaging Your Staff...Peter Rowe | Wednesday, 6 May 2009 Employing people only fills your ranks; engaging people is what fills your banks. As a leader, you have a moral responsibility to engage your team; as a manager you have ... |
Your 2009 To Don't List...Peter Rowe | Friday, 13 October 2006 When you coach business people as I do, you realise very early in your career that all of your new clients are "full" though some will tell you that they ... |
Salespeople: What Works? Commission or ...Peter Rowe | Friday, 13 October 2006 One of our coaching clients asked for some thoughts on structuring rewards for their sales people, and the following notes arose from our thinking on the ... |
How To Get Your Bills Paid Quicker...Peter Rowe | Friday, 13 October 2006 From Jurek Leon's eNewsletter (one of the very few I read regularly) here's a no-cost solution to improved cashflow:... |
Educating Gen Y About Financial Risk...Peter Rowe | Friday, 13 October 2006 If you'd like to create some very positive "glue" with which to stick your best young talent to you for the next couple of years, here's a little exercise that's ... |
Lowering Stress At Work....Peter Rowe | Friday, 13 October 2006 If you're a boss, there may be strong value for you in reading and applying this. If you're one of the troops, the real value will be in passing this ... |
Opportunity In The New Industrial Relati...Peter Rowe | Friday, 13 October 2006 Robert Gottliebsen has raised a fascinating opportunity in a recent article on Julia Gillard's industrial relations legislation.... |
Leadership...Peter Rowe | Thursday, 15 June 2006 In times of challenge, excellent leadership will be the common factor for the majority of those businesses who thrive, so it's probably timely to share a couple of thoughtful insights ... |
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First Diploma of Business Coaching...Judi Reid | Tuesday, 16 June 2009 On 1 June 2009 ProfiTune International were granted accreditation under the federal Australian Quality Training Framework for its nationally-recognized Diploma of Business ... |
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