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17 – What we learnt from using the Amazon 6 page memo meeting format.
Meeting effectiveness is a problem in businesses large and small so we tried a new approach to improve the productivity to come out of our meetings. We look at Slack. This is an awesome communications tool, which has a free plan (that is the plan we use). It helps...
16 – Application Development for Small Businesses Part II
Creating bespoke software for your small business has never been easier or cheaper than it is today and it can make a fundamental difference to the productivity and profitability of your business. We look at Google Analytics. Do you know how to use Google Analytics? ...
15 – How to take a holiday as a Small Business Owner II
If you can work for 1 or 2 hours a day every couple of days, you can spend a lot longer away from your business. We look at the technologies that we have within our companies so that we can work from anywhere, anytime. Firstly, with have a Microsoft Windows Terminal...
14 – How to take a holiday when you own a Small Business
We discuss why it is important for business owners to take a holiday. It is pretty important for you to get out of the business to recharge your batteries and make sure that you aren't burning out. It is also important to get out of the business to reflect on the...
13 – Your competitors are offshoring – Should you?
Call routing has made it a lot easier for small business to be able to offshore. Logitech Web cams - we talk about the C930 webcam. This is a really cool and simple piece of tech that I use for video conferencing as well as the Facebook lives that I do. It...
12 – Application Development for Small Business – Profiting from your Bright Ideas
In Tech Focus we look at Microsoft Power BI. We have been using Power BI to pull information from line of business application. At Extreme we can see who has been entering their timesheets, who has been working with which customers and what billings each engineer...
11 – How to market a boring Small Business – Part II
In Tech Focus we look at our new Acer Acer Veriton M6640G. Straight out of the box it supports the 4 monitors that I need to drive. Pretty much silent and driven by a super power Core i7 CPU bringing a lot more power for the video editing and other...
10 – How to market a boring Small Business
We look at modern marketing and some of the tactics that we have used to be able to grow our business. In Tech Focus, we look at my new Acer Great Wall of Data. I've put 4 x 27" Acer monitors, with a special monitor stand. This has enabled me to create content a lot...
9 – The Secrets of Successful Business Planning
In Tech Focus we look at Trello. This is a great piece of freemium software, that For annual business planning we look at the process that we use. We look at the plan that we had for the last year and how we did with those. We look at the problems within each company...
8 – Building a great business with the Business Model Canvas
This week we look at the Business Model Canvas. I think this is one of the great ways that you can look at your business in a different way. In Tech Focus, we talk about Zoom. Zoom is the tool that we use for our Teams to communicate. We have found it to be more...