Business Essentials

In 2005, Rachael Robertson gave up the comforts of home to lead a team of fellow expeditioners to Antarctica. Her 12 months included managing a small group in the dark depths of an Antarctic winter. That experience and subsequent extensive research has shown that a focus on respect drives the highest performing teams. She outlines her thoughts in her new book, Respect Trumps Harmony: why being liked is overrated and constructive conflict gets results.

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You can purchase a copy of Rachael Robertson’s book, 'Respect Trumps Harmony', at her website

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What type of salesperson gets the best results – and why? When it comes to selling, should you challenge your customers or try to develop strong, long-lasting relationships with them? What if you just work harder to get more sales? Tony Gattari, Managing Director and CEO of Achievers Group, says one of these sales methods gets the best results, in both simple sales and complex sales. But which one is it? What he reveals may surprise you.

 

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How does one go from modestly selling three teas at a stall in Byron Bay to turning over $150k a month worth of tea? Well award-winning Jordana Edwards has done just that with Clean Tea, a range of teas blended by her mum Amanda, a naturopath and medical herbalist, hand-made and free from natural ingredients, herbs, fruits and free from chemicals, preservatives and no added flavours. Along her journey Jordana has learned some valuable lessons that she wished she’d known earlier, and she lets us in to the keys to her success.

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The economy? Must we? Well yes, tough as it is, we do need to talk about the economy and where on earth it’s heading if we want to keep our businesses on track. But who should we believe? Well here at SoundCartel we have a secret source of trusted knowledge…and his name is Neville Norman.

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Do you put things off that you just don’t feel like doing – even when you know you should be doing them now? Many people are procrastinators and don’t even know it, says time management expert Les Watson, author of Get Back an Hour in Every Day. The good news is there are ways to cure procrastination and it’ll make a big difference to our businesses if we do.

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Family members in the same business can work together in wonderful harmony – or not! Conflicting expectations or generational conflict can seriously undermine the success of the business.

Business coach and mentor, Bryan Worn shares his family business success model, whereby families achieve cohesion by separating family issues from business issues. If left unchecked, issues dividing the family can affect non-family members too, draining the business of long-standing talent and loyalty.

 

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The ability to work from home during COVID has helped many of us reassess our priorities about where we want to live and work.  Will we revert to the daily commutes, the traffic jams and the office grind once it’s all over? Well no. Our choices have suddenly opened up and now, says Sarah Prime, Social entrepreneur and founder of Champions Academy. She says it’s the perfect time to consider a big shift to the country. Are you ready for the good life?

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If your website can’t be found at the top page of a Google search, you basically don’t exist. Sounds harsh, but that’s the reality, according to digital marketing guru, MC Carter, Director of Practice Paradox. Good SEO – or search engine optimisation – will help elevate your website on the coveted first page of Google Search results. So, what constitutes good SEO? Well, it’s important to provide engaging content, and that means informative and well written blog articles. MC provides seven key tips on writing great articles for your website.

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A cure for a hangover? Sounds like good timing as COVID locks us at home with perhaps a tipple more than we need to cheer us up. But the amazing growth of Bae Juice into the Australian market has been much more than pandemic-driven, and the young co-founders Tim O’Sullivan, Sumin Do and Liam Gostencnik are on a roll as Woolworths signs up for national distribution.

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If estate planning or setting up your will has dropped off your priority list, put it back on top. Not only can the unexpected happen, but now there’s a way to speed up the will creation process. Ryan Solomons is Head of Legal at Vault Legal and the co-founder of Willed, an online will and estate planning company that helps you create your will, safely, easily and for a fraction of the cost you might otherwise pay.

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Find out how you can create a will easily, legally and inexpensively at Willed. 

 

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