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From Christine Nicholson, an award-winning professional business mentor, author and speaker.
How to Get More Money From Your Business Exit
Every business owner WILL leave their business one day. Less than 1% will get the best from their business exit. This is a tragedy that can be changed quickly and easily for almost all business owners. First let’s look at where your mindset is today and see what’s stopping you getting more money from your […]
Decision Making – How to Know Your Numbers
Do you have management information for decision making? One of the biggest holes in many business owners knowledge is a basic understanding of the key numbers. Not just Profit and Loss, Cash Flow and Balance Sheet, but the main drivers and levers within their businesses. It’s a major requirement to know your numbers for a […]
How Cash Flow Builds the Best Business Value
Cash is King and effective cash flow management builds the best business value. Another podcast for business owners, where I talk to Clayton M Coke on the The Cashflow Show. In this episode, your host Clayton M Coke sits down with Christine Nicholson to discuss; Early mentors, Joining the Navy, Founding & Exiting success, Succession planning, Business addiction, Running a […]
Make Your Business Worth More with Effective Systems
One of the best ways to make your business worth more tomorrow and more profitable today is effective systems. have you ever asked if your systems support customers getting consistent excellent service? Every business has systems, whether they are written down or not. But what is a System? Systems are defined in the dictionary as: […]
Get the Best Business Value with a Great Team
How fast and high your business value gets depends on whether you as the business owner are willing to let go and trust in a great team to run it for you. Do You Have the Right People in Your Business for Its Full Potential? The poem “No Man is an Island” was written in […]
Exit Planning for the Best Business Sale Value
Are you exit planning for your business yet? 100% of business owner leave their business yet so few actually plan their exit. Here’s some insights to get you started on your exit readiness journey. Being in business for over 20 years I am busy running my business and sometimes we business owners forget that our […]
Build a Better Business with Your Strategic Plan
Having a strategic plan makes your business easier to operate and more profitable. This means it’s worth more in the future. Do You Have a Strategic Plan for Your Business? If a strategic plan is one of the critical factors in Business Success – why doesn’t everyone do it? And of those that do make […]
How to Make More Money with Effective Cash Management
Cash is ready money in the bank or in the business that can be used to pay suppliers, overheads, or employees. You can use it to make more money for your business and yourself I often hear a cry from the owners of growing companies. “I’m doing more business than ever before but I do […]
How to Build a Successful High Value Technology Business
Why do most technology companies fail, not achieving a high value? Failure in your tech business should not be seen as a deterrent but an opportunity to learn from past mistakes. Learning from the failures as much as successes means you are on the road to be the next billionaire. Hard work is always a […]
What Makes A Tech Business Successful?
New innovations are ten-a-penny in the tech business world, but not many make a business successful. Over a quarter of a million new products are launched every year in the USA alone – and that’s a conservative estimate. It doesn’t include all those ideas that didn’t make it to the invention stage, nor does it […]
How to Build a High Value Technology Business
Do you want to build a high value business, no matter what sector. Focused founders understand the technical challenges you are trying to overcome and the great potential your product has to positively change outcomes for your customers. You can’t wait to get started. You’ve most likely not yet experienced all of the challenges of […]
Building a successful business in Tech – The Big Idea
It’s great to let your imagination go wild and think BIG! One of the challenges I see in business owners frequently is not thinking big enough when they have a great product or service. Successful business technology giants (Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft) all have time for their employees to get out of the day-to-day and […]
Exit and Succession Planning for Better Business Success
What is Exit & Succession Planning – find out more on this PODCAST You don’t want to miss this conversation! From the Queen (RIP) to bringing on employees in your business, we dive into it all. Christine Nicholson is a multi-award-winning business mentor specializing in exit and succession planning for business owners AND their teams. […]
How to Get a Business Mentor and Build More Value
In football, the fans are often called the 13th team member. Support from the terraces can lift a team performance to achieve outstanding results. It’s the same in business – both within it and from outside. Your family and friends can become an additional team member without working inside your business. Equally they can become […]
How to Drive the Best Business Value
Looking to get the best business value from your company? When you first started out in business (or if you are just thinking about taking the leap) you were excited about it. It possibly made you feel a little bit queasy – but you did it anyway! You started each new day with a “this […]
How to Get More Business Success
Ever asked “what makes for more business success?” I’m surprised this is not asked more often. Here’s 7 questions every business owners should ask themselves. 7 Questions Every Business Owner Should Ask How would you describe where you are with your business is right now? Are you: Struggling? Frustrated? Progressing? Successful? Of all the 5.4 […]
How to Get Exit Ready and Make Your Business Worth More Money
Why is it important to get exit ready? Most business owners have a sizable portion (if not all) of their pension tied up in their businesses. Yet they have no clear idea or plan for how they are going to transfer the value from their business to their own pockets. Or discover what’s next in […]
How a Successful Mindset Means Better Business Value
Better business value is not just driven by activity. It needs the business owner in the right mindset too. Do You Want to be a Successful Entrepreneur? Entrepreneurs are more likely to achieve success when they possess or develop a broad set of skills. The mindsets and personality traits that help them in all areas […]
Succession Planning for the Best Business value
Succession planning is a critical activity that is often misunderstood by small and medium size business owners.There are many obstacles, and sometimes as business owners, we can get caught in the day-to-day that we lose sight of our dream and what lights us up. Succession planning is possible by eliminating activities we can delegate and […]
Where You Are With Your Business Success Right Now?
Every business owner want business success, but where are you right now? Are you… is Your Business Success Where You Want it To Be? Of all the 5.4 million businesses in the UK right now, 80% of them are struggling or getting by and barely keeping their heads above water. Executive contributor and business mentor […]