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Time for a new book…meet “The Bigger Button”.

04 August 2025|No Comments

Right now, I’m tucked away in a little shack by the sea at the Bay of Fires. The ocean is roaring outside my window, a pot of tea is beside Read More…

The Australian Business Book Awards are now officially open for entries.

11 July 2025|No Comments

We’re excited to announce that entries are now open for the 2025 Australian Business Book Awards. The awards celebrate the best business books by Australian authors, recognising excellence across a Read More…

FREE COPY OF “THE BIG BOOK OF SMALL BUSINESS” – VIA FLIPBOOKS.

15 November 2024|No Comments

One of my favourite and most successful books is “The Big Book of Small Business”. As the name suggests, it’s a book book that is strangely about small business. I Read More…

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The Simple Test to Reveal Why You’re Not Making Money

We all have times in our business where we feel a little off track. We’re doing a pile of things, in fact our days are incredibly busy, but we just Read More…

29 August 2017|No Comments

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If you Burnout in Sales, it’s Hard to Recover and the Ramifications Are Serious

Selling anything tends to be very demanding. It doesn’t matter whether you are standing behind a cash register all day at the local hardware store or selling planes for Boeing, Read More…

25 August 2017|No Comments

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Should we Give Free Projects the Same Attention as Paid Projects?

From time to time we are all asked to do something for free. It might be a community goodwill act, it might be a friend wanting something or it might Read More…

23 August 2017|No Comments

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How Professional Do Your Emails Make You Look?

One of the problems with modern communication is that it is very fast. We act and react quickly to messages that we receive and while this is very convenient, sometimes Read More…

18 August 2017|No Comments

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The Biggest Challenge we all Face is Staying Relevant to Our Market

When the world changes as rapidly as it does today, one of the greatest challenges we all face in business is staying relevant to our target market. The main reason Read More…

17 August 2017|No Comments

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Check Out the Latest Episode of the Business Over Breakfast Podcast – Someone Has to Be the Most Expensive So It Might as Well Be You

For many of us, our entire business and marketing strategy revolves around being the cheapest option out there for customers but why is that business model fundamentally flawed? In today’s Read More…

17 August 2017|No Comments

Podcast Episode

How Well do You Handle Business Breakups?

We all know the feeling of disappointment that comes when a lucrative contract comes to an end or a great client tells us that they won’t be using us in Read More…

02 August 2017|No Comments

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Check Out the Latest Episode of the Business Over Breakfast Podcast – How to Effectively Market Your Business in a Modern World

Marketing your business these days can be intimidating, with so many social media channels and jaded consumers, but it doesn’t have to be for you! No matter what industry you’re Read More…

31 July 2017|No Comments

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What does your relationship with failure look like?

I read an article on the weekend about a ten-year-old boy saying he felt like a failure. This broke my heart. I’ve been that ten-year-old boy. I’ve come across so Read More…

30 July 2017|22 Comments

Brainfood

What Percentage Are You Living Your Life At?

A dear friend of mine recently said something that made me stop and think. She said “Andrew the thing I admire about you the most is that everything you do, Read More…

28 July 2017|No Comments

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Treat Everyone Like a Decision Maker – not Just the Boss

Although he had been rude to my receptionist on the phone when trying to make an appointment and had refused to expand on what he was selling, I agreed to Read More…

28 July 2017|No Comments

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Would you like to dramatically increase your speaker skills and grow your influence as a professional speaker?

OK – it’s that time again, Bree James and I are heading to Bali in August for another Speaker 2.0 4 day retreat. This is a fantastic few days for Read More…

24 July 2017|No Comments

Events

The Sales Pitch That Cost Me $10,000 in Less Time Than it Takes to Boil an Egg

A while back a sales rep came to tell me about a new range of printers. I wasn’t expecting to be overly excited by his pitch, but I did need Read More…

19 July 2017|No Comments

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Check Out the Latest Episode of the Business Over Breakfast Podcast – A Professional’s Guide to the Perfect PR

“All publicity is good publicity”? Not anymore. Publicity is important for businesses both big and small, but it has to be good to be effective, and while it’s easy to Read More…

17 July 2017|No Comments

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Is Lousy Communication Costing You Customers?

One of the biggest and most common problems in business is lousy communication. Specifically, businesses that have become terrible at communicating with their clients, an issue that can over time Read More…

17 July 2017|No Comments

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