13 - Your competitors are offshoring - Should you?
Release Date: 01/29/2018
40 - I uploaded our P&L to ChatGPT - Is this the end for Accountants?
Sun Tzu 4 Small Business | Strategy and Tactics, Technology and Leadership, Management and Marketing for Small Business Owners
ChatGPT has been the biggest game changer for Small Business looking for productivity improvements. There has been a lot of talk about what AI can and can't do and what you should and shouldn't do with AI. Last week I uploaded our P&L and Balance Sheet because I wanted to get some advice on how our company is going. I think this will be something that ChatGPT should be really good at. This podcast discusses the results and what it will mean for the accounting industry in the short and medium term. Have a listen to the podcast to find out how what advice ChatGPT gave me when...
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39 - Top 20 Small Business productivity tips
Sun Tzu 4 Small Business | Strategy and Tactics, Technology and Leadership, Management and Marketing for Small Business Owners
This week we look at productivity tips for your Small Business. Inflation is running wild around the world and Governments are looking for the best solutions to bring it back under control. Increasing productivity is a great way to do this. It means higher profits, higher wages and businesses have more resources to reinvest and grow their businesses. We look at a range of tools and tips that we use at to grow our productivity. Some of these are cheap, even better many are free. Some are tools, many are techniques that can pay off big time as you look to increase...
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38 - Top 10 AI tools for your Small Business
Sun Tzu 4 Small Business | Strategy and Tactics, Technology and Leadership, Management and Marketing for Small Business Owners
Artificial Intelligence is going to be our Industrial Revolution. Already there are huge technical advances - and it is only really beginning. We detail the Top 10 AI tools that we are already using in our companies and how you can use them in your business. Have a listen to the podcast to find out how this will impact your small or medium-sized business. Check out the for more information on this podcast.
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37 - Using AI in your Small Business for Fun and Profit
Sun Tzu 4 Small Business | Strategy and Tactics, Technology and Leadership, Management and Marketing for Small Business Owners
What is AI? How will it affect your industry? How can you improve productivity? AI is going to be our generation's Industrial Revolution. The changes from this are going to be huge, so all small business owners need to understand the threats and more importantly the opportunities that come from AI. Have a listen to the podcast to find out how this will impact your small or medium-sized business. Check out the for more information on this podcast. For Small and Medium sized Business IT Support visit our IT Company, . For Small Business Strategy and Tactics,...
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36 - The importance of finding someone to take a message to Garcia in your Small Business
Sun Tzu 4 Small Business | Strategy and Tactics, Technology and Leadership, Management and Marketing for Small Business Owners
This week we look at the Message from Garcia, an article written in 1899. What was the message? Who carried it? Why him? Most importantly - how does this fit into your business? Finding someone who can take a message to Garcia, or more than one will make your life, as a business owner, a whole lot easier. We use the message to help us illustrate to our team what we are looking for. You can too. Check out the show notes to download a copy of the essay. For Small and Medium sized Business IT Support visit our IT Company, . For Small Business Strategy and Tactics, visit .
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35 - Managing inflation in your Small Business
Sun Tzu 4 Small Business | Strategy and Tactics, Technology and Leadership, Management and Marketing for Small Business Owners
How can small business owners manage the impacts of inflation? We look at the impact inflation will have and offer some tips on how to best manage running a business in a high inflation economy. For Small Business IT Support visit our IT Company, . For Small Business Strategy and Tactics, visit .
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34 - Small Business Hiring Tips to grow your team post COVID
Sun Tzu 4 Small Business | Strategy and Tactics, Technology and Leadership, Management and Marketing for Small Business Owners
Hiring today is a global issue for Small Businesses. We look at some of the strategies that successful small businesses are using to be able to hire the right people as well as getting the most out of the team you have. For Small Business IT Support visit our IT Company, . For Small Business Strategy and Tactics, visit .
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33 - How to manage the Great Resignation in your Small Business
Sun Tzu 4 Small Business | Strategy and Tactics, Technology and Leadership, Management and Marketing for Small Business Owners
What is the Great Resignation?
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32 - Lessons learnt from implementing the Rockefeller Habits
Sun Tzu 4 Small Business | Strategy and Tactics, Technology and Leadership, Management and Marketing for Small Business Owners
How can the Rockefeller Habits help your business grow? We discuss how we have gone implementing the Rockfeller Habits as we work towards scaling up. For Small Business IT Support visit our IT Company, . For Small Business Strategy and Tactics, visit .
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31 - Scaling up with the Rockefeller Habits
Sun Tzu 4 Small Business | Strategy and Tactics, Technology and Leadership, Management and Marketing for Small Business Owners
I am a huge fan of the Rockefeller Habits and Scaling Up books by Verne Harnish. We discuss how we are going on our journey of implementing them in Extreme Networks. For Small Business IT Support visit our IT Company, . For Small Business Strategy and Tactics, visit .
info_outlineCall routing has made it a lot easier for small business to be able to offshore.
Logitech Web cams - we talk about the C930 webcam. This is a really cool and simple piece of tech that I use for video conferencing as well as the Facebook lives that I do. It natively supports green screen which is pretty cool. Webcams make a big difference when you are teleconferencing and this one works really well.
Everyone should look at offshoring - it isn't right for everyone, but everyone should have a look it.
Most companies are offshoring now, it is just whether they are a primary or secondary offshoring. Secondary offshoring is where you use a company that is offshoring. Primary offshoring is where you directly control a person or team offshore.
Benefits:
- Decreased costs.
- Flexible workplace laws.
- Flexibility to scale up your team.
- Well trained work force.
We have found that in the Philippines we have found the best English language skills and that is why we have focused on hiring there.
Concerns:
- Customer service.
- Data sovereignty.
- Control of your staff.
We look at the processes that we have move to the Philippines.
We talk about what it was that has driven us to start offshoring and the issues that can occur when you run a Small Business in Australia and how offshoring can mitigate some of those risks.
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