SME Servo

An interview with Deb Purvis, the South Australian Director of Robinson Sewell Partners, specialists in agricultural, commercial and corporate finance and credit advisory solutions. Deb and her team provide tier one finance-based solutions to SME clients, ensuring they have the most cost efficient and flexible financial trading platforms for their business growth and sustainability needs. In this interview, Deb touches on the business fundamentals lenders look for at this highly scrutinised time, the value of a plan and the impor

A special edition of Servo - Ten key lessons, themes and take-outs from the first twenty Servo interviews. Valuable concentrate for any SME owner, leader or driver. 

An interview with Mike Chalmers, the "Chief Buyologist" at Buyologists, a consultancy that helps businesses reduce their overhead costs and save on major purchases by finding and negotiating the best possible deals. Mike trains and advises business people on negotiation strategy and writes about negotiation for various newspapers and magazines. In this interview, Mike shares practical but often overlooked ways to improve the buying side of your P&L, and the power of asking simple questions of your suppliers.

In this episode, we speak with Scott Elder, Managing Director of Catalyst Cloud Solutions, a business specialising in cloud integration using Xero ecosystem apps to help SMEs automate bookkeeping, accounting and office administration.  Scott's cloud- and app-related services are about finding and realising administrative efficiencies, economies and ultimately delivering business owners peace-of-mind. In this discussion, Scott shares his learnings on building networks of complementarily skilled professionals, the neccessity of automating what you can and the substitute for hard work. 

An interview with Kerry Kingham of KTSB Consulting. Kerry's business helps SMEs improve the effectiveness of their sales teams & activities, successfully navigate change, and build & nurture healthy organisational cultures. Kerry has 30-year background in sales, communication and change management, building sales teams and processes from the ground up. Kerry’s passion and services are focused on developing positive performance and exceptional customer experiences through people and processes. In this interview, Kerry talks about ntance of surrounding yourself with positive people.