What you need to include in a business plan when looking for investment, funding or bank facilities. Make sure your business plan has all these areas covered and tick them off the list.

How to write a business plan. This template includes a full business plan where you can effectively insert your own details and have your own business plan complete with speed.

Determine the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats for your business with this SWOT analysis template which includes key questions to ask yourself to help you complete each aspect for your business.

Determine the Political, Economic, Social and Technological influences for your business with this PEST analysis template which includes key areas to help you determine what are the significant influences for your business.

Here is a useful performance appraisal form template to help you have meaningful staff performance appraisals and establish individual needs for development.

These are the top 20 mistakes made by managers. Make sure you’re not making any of them within your business. Download them now to find out.

When it comes to managing staff there are many pitfalls to be avoided. This simple guide will highlight the areas to make sure you are being the best manager you can be.

Sometimes we get caught up in working ‘in’ the business and not ‘on’ the business. Take some time out to determine what areas of your business that need to be improved and set and action plan for that area.

Too many business owners ignore this important aspect of their business as running a business can be all consuming. Get an idea of how to start going about it with your financial advisor and how you can start saving on your tax bill.

Profits are the very lifeblood of your business. Learn how you can go about maximising these profits within your business.

The book Acres of Diamonds is one of the most famous books in the world. The author, Russell Conwell, was asked to give a speech to the 10 year reunion of his Civil War troops. He gave this speech ‘Acres of Diamonds’ as a result. It was then requested over and over again throughout the years. It is fair to say this speech was given more times than any other speech in the history of the world. Russell Conwell personally gave this speech over 6,000 times, travelling from city to city. With the proceeds of the speech, he would pay for his room, board and train fare, then send the rest back to Temple University. These funds put nearly 2,000 students through college. This is a timeless book and is as relevant today as it was back when the speech was originally delivered. Discover your very own Acres of Diamonds

Think and Grow Rich is a motivational personal development and self-help book written by Napoleon Hill and inspired by a suggestion from Scottish-American businessman Andrew Carnegie. It was first published in 1937 during the Great Depression. It remains the biggest seller of Napoleon Hill's books - a perennial best-seller after 70 years. Business Week Magazine's Best-Seller List ranked Think and Grow Rich as the sixth best-selling paperback business book 70 years after it was first published. Think and Grow Rich is listed in John C. Maxwell's A Lifetime "Must Read" Books List. The text of Think and Grow Rich is founded on Hill's earlier work The Law of Success, the result of more than twenty years of research based on Hill's close association with a large number of individuals who achieved great wealth during their lifetimes. At Andrew Carnegie's bidding, Hill studied the characteristics of these achievers and developed 16 "laws" of success intended to be applied by anybody to achieve success. Think and Grow Rich condenses these laws further and provides the reader with 13 principles in the form of a philosophy of personal achievement. Think and Grow Rich is a must read for anybody in business.

The Richest Man in Babylon is a book by George Samuel Clason which dispenses financial advice through a collection of parables set in ancient Babylon. Through their experiences in business and managing household finance, the characters in the parables learn simple lessons in financial wisdom. By basing these parables in ancient times, but involving situations that modern people can understand and identify with, the author presents these lessons as timeless wisdom that is as relevant today as it was back then. The Richest Man in Babylon began in 1926 as a series of informational pamphlets. Banks and insurance companies began to distribute these pamphlets, and the most famous ones were eventually compiled into this book. This book will give you the ground rules for creating wealth.

The One Minute Manager, is a book by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson, and has sold more than 13 million copies and has been translated into 37 languages. The brief volume reveals three secrets to productive and efficient managing as told through a young man's search for the perfect managing and leading skills: one-minute goals, one-minute praisings and one-minute reprimands. Each of these takes only a minute but is of lasting benefit. The One Minute Manager is a quick read that emphasises key points throughout. The message is clear, and implementing the ideas is straight-forward and laid out in the book. This makes it simple to utilise the knowledge and techniques that the one minute manager style offers. It is an effective tool for anybody managing staff.

During this recording you will discover:

• 4 challenges we see ahead for marketing your professional services practice
• 3 tips to get yourself re-energised for your business
• 3 actions to take to benefit from the increasing opportunity the Internet provides for your business
• Establishing your goals with 5 keys to making these goals achievable and inspiring so that you achieve them every time
• The 4 D system for reviewing your 90 day, 30 day and weekly action plan
• 2 success tips that we personally use for keeping ourselves on track with our goals and objectives
• And lots of personal insights to help you with your business

During this webinar recording we will walk you through the step-by-step process of you getting more clients now. You will discover:

• How to double or triple your income - Clients I have worked with in the professional services industry (consultants, coaches, solicitors, accountants, trainers, solo-professionals) have achieved increases in fee income of 274% using this simple technique.
• How to organise WHAT you offer so that it's clear, concise and makes people really WANT to work with you.
• The simple strategies I use consistently to GET OUT THERE in a big way and get clients to come to me.
• How to end the feast or famine income cycle you're currently experiencing and create systems so that your marketing goes on AUTO PILOT, all year round, each and every year, completely effortlessly on your part.
• An easy to follow step by step proven process that will drive your business forward like you've never seen before.

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