by admin | Apr 14, 2016 | Articles, Expansion & Exit
A major hurdle for people buying a franchise is that, mostly, they end up buying themselves a job. So the retrenched executive spending her money buying into a muffin franchise ends up working a 70-hour week, probably equating to less than $25 an hour. And still...
by admin | Mar 10, 2016 | Articles, Expansion & Exit
“No way!” we hear you say. We agree. But it does raise the question as to how many clients do you need to make your bookkeeping practice sustainable and profitable. A survey of high performance franchise groups in Australia and New Zealand are revealing: these high...
by admin | Mar 9, 2016 | Articles, Expansion & Exit
Simon (not his real name) is an ambitious 28-year old café proprietor – not your usual café, rather, a mini-sized café in the heart of Melbourne’s CBD; standing room only, made for takeaways. Simon has plans to open more. The design is compact, functional and so too...
by admin | Dec 3, 2015 | Articles, Expansion & Exit
In 1915 Franz Kafka wrote his famous novella Metamorphosis; the story begins with a traveling salesman waking to find himself transformed (metamorphosed) into a large, monstrous insect-like creature. The rest of the story deals with the salesman’s attempts to adjust...
by admin | Sep 16, 2015 | Articles, Expansion & Exit
Is there something we can learn from the banking sector? Yes! is the short answer and it’s all about digital engagement. Face-to-face banking relationship are a thing of the past for the majority of small businesses (SMBs). Banks really don’t think about SMBs all that...
by admin | Sep 2, 2015 | Articles, Expansion & Exit
The market has changed; it’s true. If you are struggling at the keyboard, overloaded, feeling under-valued, delivering a bookkeeping service with yesterday’s skills and tools, take a good look around: it’s not the marketplace it once was. Stuff has changed! How? 1....
