Calculate Extra Revenue Required to Fund a New Hire
Hiring a new team member is a milestone, but for a time-challenged Small Business Owner, it can also be a source of financial anxiety. Whether you are hiring a Front-Line Producer (who sells or bills hours) or an Operational Support role (who frees up your time to sell), that new salary doesn’t just need to […]
C3.0 Introducing Grow your Business in 365 Days Course
The third of our signature 12Faces courses is a Growth Strategy Over One Year. This course builds on the rapid optimisation carried out during the course C2.0 Optimise Your Business Enterprise in 100 Days (Optimise100). This Growth Strategy is designed to work with the various types of enterprise we service: For-profit, Public Sector and NFP. Each of these enterprises […]
Powerful but Easy Method Discovers Worst Management Problem in Seconds
3 Steps and a few seconds to find the most important thing for you to focus on; provide your Name and email so we can send you the results fill in the survey. Score problems 1 to 5. HINT: pick the highest first, give it a 5 then score the others in relation to that […]
How to use AI Tactics to Boost Your 12Faces GamePlan Strategy in Under 5 Minutes
Stop Feeling Overwhelmed. Start Prompting. As a Small Business Owner, your to-do list is already long enough. You know you need to improve things like profit and efficiency, but where do you start? Scrolling through lengthy articles or expensive courses takes time you simply don’t have. This is where Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes your fast, […]
Build Better Routines Faster: Search our Prefab Routines Catalog
Your whole business runs on repeatable Routines; and can’t operate without them! Because they consume so much of your business’s time and other resources, you want them to be as streamlined and as effective as possible. To save you research, we provide guidelines for important Routines below. Also see our companion Library of Prefab 90 […]
Simple DIY Spreadsheet Template for Financial Ratio Information
We encourage the use of this type of dashboard tool because; It is difficult to visualize what’s happening in your business with just a jumble of numbers and you will be doing this analysis regularly so you should automate it as much as possible to make it a “good” Routine To allow you to set […]
Longer Term Financial Risk Warning: Debt-to-Equity Ratio Check Routine
Why This Routine Matters The Debt-to-Equity (D/E) Ratio reveals how your business is financed: by borrowing (debt) or by owner/investor capital (equity). This is a critical measure of long-term financial risk. A high D/E means you are relying heavily on lenders and interest payments, making your business fragile during economic downturns. This routine monitors your […]
Watch Debt Risk: Current Ratio Alert Reduces Stress
Why This Routine Matters The Current Ratio is your liquidity lifeline—your ability to pay the bills due in the next 12 months using the assets you can quickly convert to cash (like your bank balance and inventory). Banks rely on this ratio when considering loans. A Current Ratio below 1.0 is a red alert that […]
The Bottom Line Truth: The Net Profit Margin Routine
The Bottom Line Truth: The Net Profit Margin Routine Why This Routine Matters Net Profit Margin (NPM) is the ultimate truth in business—what you actually get to keep. It measures the percentage of revenue that remains as true profit after all expenses, taxes, and interest have been paid. Monitoring this routine ensures you are not […]
Monitor Impact of Overhead Costs on Profit
Expense Control Engine: The Overhead Costs Routine Why This Routine Matters The Overhead Costs Ratio (OCR) is your weapon against “cost creep”—the slow, silent increase in fixed costs (rent, subscriptions, salaries) that eats away at your hard-earned Gross Profit. This routine isolates how much of every sales dollar goes to administrative and operating costs, helping […]