Better Business

How Much is Social Media Costing You Each Week?

A little while back I realized that I needed to tell myself a much better story about how much time I was spending on Facebook. So I worked out exactly Read More

Don’t Play a Smaller Game Because You’re Afraid of Haters

A few years back the town where I live, Cairns, was caught up in the depths of the GFC. We had the highest unemployment rate in Australia, businesses both large Read More

The Most Important Investment You Can Make

I often get asked by business owners and entrepreneurs what’s the single most important thing they should do to be successful? For me the answer is really simple, invest in Read More

The #1 Thing You Need to Know to Have Success with Staff

Are you ready to quit all the staffing frustrations for good in your business? Then you need to tune into this webinar with myself and people management expert Andrea Tunjic.  Read More

10 Reasons You Should Still Have Meetings In-Person

I’m a big believer in face-to-face meetings. I’ve done them all my life. I’ll jump on a plane at a moment’s notice to see a new or prospective client because I Read More

Why not Replace Your Customer Complaint Hotline with a Customer Compliment Hotline?

We are all familiar with customer complaint hotlines in their various forms – in many ways it admits a certain kind of defeat where we are saying “we are ready Read More

SPECIAL PODCAST INTERVIEW – Andrew Griffiths talks to Michael Gerber, about “Beyond the E Myth”

I had the incredible pleasure of interviewing Michael Gerber recently – a man I’ve been following for 30 years. He is extraordinary in many ways and we certainly covered a Read More

Don’t Just Sell Stuff, Become a Valuable Resource to Your Customers

I have a very good friend who is a very successful sales representative for a television station. He earns great money and he gets the best clients. He has built Read More

The Most Low Tech Awesome Productivity Tool Ever

Recently a friend of mine gave me a wonderful gift with the intended purpose of helping me manage my time much better. It’s completely low tech, doesn’t have a USB Read More

Check out the latest episode of the “Business Over Breakfast” PODCAST SHOW

This episode is all about “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of the Online World” If you’re struggling with how to boost your online presence and generate more leads Read More

Are you wasting a pile of money in your business every day?

If you are sick and tired of checking your bank account only to find that it’s always empty, here are 7 ideas that might change that for you. To find Read More

How to add excitement to every working day

Let’s be honest, there are times in business when it’s all a bit of a grind; when every day feels like ground hog day. Add a crazy workload into the Read More

Free E-Book: Are You Ready to Make Your Business Boom in 2017?

A number of our pretty darn awesome Smallville Contributors got together recently and decided that they would love to share their best ideas and strategies for making 2017 a great Read More

What is Your ‘One Thing’ You’re Going to Stop Doing Next Year?

With the New Year only weeks away, it’s generally the time of year where we start to reflect and plan what we want to achieve in the coming year. Personally Read More

One day Your Customers Won’t Want What you are Selling

On a recent study tour to Japan, I visited a range of leading manufacturing companies to better understand how they do what they do. In one particular business, which was Read More