Palmerston North
with Your Local Director Ron Schalkwijk
We help Business Owners in 3 ways...
Promote...
Your business with an online Business Feature...
Your business with an online Business Feature...
Part of our role is to promote every local business on our Facebook page. We do this with “Business Features”. Business Features are like a Free PR Piece for your business where we do a short interview, write it up and post it (checking with you first so you know what’s being said!)… we’ll also let you know about upcoming Events that we run regularly and provide you with a Guest Pass to attend…
The Secret Recipe describes the 3 critical parts of your business where money is MADE or LOST…
Sales and marketing how to make sure your marketing is saying the right type of things… to the right people… so that people are buying from you rather than your competitors.
Productivity how to get clear on what to measure in your business so your business is easier to run and more profitable.
Download Your FREE Copy to find out what's missing in your Business!
Each Cheat Sheet spells out on a single page how to Optimise Your Income… You’ll see the Biggest Challenges and Best Opportunities for each business type… Select the closest industry that matches your business type?
Trade Services
Wholesalers
Brokers
Professional Services
Retailers
Manufacturers
If you hear yourself saying “I need more MONEY out of my business!”, then watch the 10 minute video on MARGINS for a quick-fix… If you’re saying “I need more TIME out of my business!”, then watch the video on PRODUCTIVITY for a quick-fix… If you’re saying “I need more LEADS for my business!”, then watch the quick-fix on MARKETING…
How to build a great Marketing Piece...
The big idea is to avoid writing something that sounds like everyone else in your industry and misses the point of why people should actually buy from you rather than anyone else… 2 key decisions before you start:
1 Choose Your Target Who are your BEST customers, your ‘A’ Graders, the ones you want more of, who accept your recommendations, don’t haggle you on price, pay on time and refer more great customers to you… Now, target ONLY them… and not anyone else!
2 Choose Your Message It’s likely your ‘A’ Graders will have similar reasons WHY they buy from you rather than anyone else. It’s their #1 ‘hot button’ and the one thing that if you stopped providing it, they’d switch who they buy from…
So here’s the key question: “Is the MAIN REASON they buy from you because of your QUALITY, your SERVICE or your PRICE?”
ONE of these is your ‘A’ Grader’s hot button… Your job is to ‘BEAT THE MARKET’ in this ONE area… whereas you only need to “MEET THE MARKET” in the other two…
Key Point: Don’t try and be ALL things to ALL people, just be the BEST thing that your BEST customers want!
OUTCOME: Now you have ONE message to deliver to ONE target… CLARITY!
Connect...
Our Business Owner Boardroom sessions bring together 6-8 local Business Owners in a boardroom style setting… essentially you roll up your sleeves and work on growing your businesses.
Our most popular BoardRoom Session is The Four Futures of Business… in this Session you’ll get clarity on how to get your “Ideal” Business… to qualify as “Ideal” we mean your business gives you the Income, Freedom and Scale that you’re looking for from owning your business… you’ll walk out of the session with practical, easy to implement, best-practise strategies in a workbook to take away and use…Our BoardRoom Sessions are for time-challenged, hard-working, practically-minded business owners who give their business 100% and know they want their business to give them an income that matches the time and money that has been invested. Book into a Session and join other business owners who want to Play a Bigger Game…
The Business Optimiser
1 How much money should I actually be making out of my business right now? 2 What income is possible from my business or is this as good as it gets? 3 What size does it need to be in order to make the money I want? 4 What else should I be doing in my business to improve it from where it is now?
To help business owners answer these question, we've purpose-built a software app to get answers...
We call it The Business Optimisor.
And here’s the reaction we’ve had from business owners so far…
“The number in ‘Productivity’ showed us $29,300 available over 12 months… in 8 months we’ve already found $58,600″
“It came up with 174k which sounded a bit high… We’ve introduced several strategies that have us on track for $274k in the first year”
Those are the clean ones…. others included “holy <#*?@%&*:> really?”
You get the picture…
Type 'Business Optimiser' into our Chatbot below for more info...
When we chat to business owners about their team, this is what we hear…
When we chat to business owners about their team, this is what we hear…
1. The teams a bit up and down, sometimes they’re engaged, sometimes not so much…
2. There’s definitely a few issues that would be great to sort out, but everyone’s always so busy…
3. It would be really great to get everyone motivated, on the same page and working together…
Many say that they know they’ve got a good team, but would really benefit from getting together to work on the business as a team. Team Talk does this making your business smoother to run and a better place to work…
Here's how it works...
" They ran a 90 minute workshop that got my team engaged. Everyone got a workbook with exercises that had my staff thinking and talking about my business"
"The whole workshop was facilitated and all I had to do was show up with my team!"
So why do we do these?
Because we know it's easier to have an outsider do this for you and you never know what opportunities will come out of this discussion.
For more info type 'Team Workshop' into our chat below...
1st step is a quick phone call to see if we can help… Contact me to find a time that we can talk!
Working...
With Business Owners to deliver your Ideal Business defined as your Ideal Income (so you're well paid), Ideal Hours (so you don't burn out) and Ideal Scale (so you get to the size you want)...
It’s like going to the gym to work on “$20K Problems” (the idea of working on a "$20K Problem" is there's good money to be made by fixing them!). The value of what you’ll be working on will depend on the scale of your business. You’ll be working towards building your Ideal Business. The Local Business Network meets fortnightly throughout the year with 3 session formats...
Business Education Sessions with the focus on Best-Practise, Fastest-Fix, Latest-Tactics that transform the 3 parts of your business where money is made or lost: Sales & Marketing, Margins and People (Productivity). There's also 2 Planning Sessions; one at the start and one mid calendar year. Each Session has a workbook with step-by-step instructions that implement directly into your business.
Work peer-to-peer with other business owners (your “Board”) on solving $20K Problems using our famed “Menu of $20K Problems” (yep, there’s a menu for that!). Each of the menu items has the power to substantially shift your business towards your Ideal Business when they’re resolved. You’ll work with your “board members” to fix $20k Problems so you can implement these solutions between BoardRoom meetings.
Practical hands-on Implementation Sessions to make sure your Business Development strategies are BANKABLE. All practical, no theory, no filler, just the raw materials you need to build the systems to get your business making you more Income, more Freedom & more Scale. You’ll get tried and tested Worksheets that make implementing change into your business easy and practical.
I’m passionate about helping business leaders create the best version of themselves and their business.
Profit | Productivity | Promotion | Systems | Teamwork | Leadership | Communication | Behavior | Business Transformation
Proven strategies by an effective coach and business advisor with a keen eye for exceptional return on investment for clients.
What to do is not enough! It’s also about how you do it that will get the best results.
If you are interested in finding out more please contact me now. Just one small step for you to make a start!