Routines are the Heart of a Successful Business
Routines are Repeatable Business Processes that Drive your Business They are the Beating Heart of any Business They are the Key to your Business Success Ideally you want; simple Routines that can be used repeatedly to maximize success with minimum effort and less stress a regular overhaul of your critical operations to make sure they […]
Marketing Channels: How to Choose the Best for Your Business
The term Marketing Channel refers to avenues that you can use to direct people, who may be interested in your product (called Leads) , into the very top of your Sales Funnel. From here, they move down stages in your Sales Funnel while you try to convert them to customers who buy from you. This is an introductory article to assist you to begin to shortlist suitable Marketing channels. Yellow Belt.
Hiring Staff: When and Who
Learn about hiring staff, the decision about when to hire your next member of staff and what positions to consider first. This article is aimed, primarily, at owners hiring their first few staff members. But additionally, it suggests a thought process and habits that will be useful even when your small business becomes larger. Yellow Belt […]
Solo & Micro Business Growth Resources
Welcome to our Solopreneur & Micro Business Resources Catalogue (1 to 4 Staff). This is a collection of our resources that are relevant to growing your Solo or Micro Business in a Sustainable fashion with minimal stress For us, a sustainable business has acceptable: Rewards for the leader (salary, benefits and profit) Stress levels (cash […]
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 […]
How the Profit Flywheel Accelerates Your Business
This is the 12Faces structured roadmap to growing your business. We use the flywheel to explain the structure of the material. It is one of many possible roadmaps to growth. Use it as a suggestion tool to incorporate into your business planning. Yellow Belt
SM3.1 De-Stress
Stress is one of the major problems faced by business Owner/Operators. There are straight forward ways, though, of reducing the 4 main contributors to this stress; and they do not take very long to implement. We show how to convert “distress” to “de-stress”. Typical stress points in smaller businesses are caused by: People: hiring, firing, managing […]
SM5.1 When a Bottleneck is Good – Theory of Constraints (TOC)
Believe it or not, it is often a very good thing to find that you have some Bottleneck / Constraint in your production system. A body of knowledge about how to take best advantage of bottlenecks has evolved into what is now known as the Theory of Constraints (TOC). It is said that Jeff Bezos, […]
SM6.2 Profit Autopilot Focused Business Model
12Faces Profit Focused Business Model will show you how just 7 numbers will let you be fairly confident of achieving the Profit and personal Salary you desire. In turn, this will help to reduce one of the major causes of stress in smaller businesses – “will I make a Profit and will I be able to pay my bills”?
SM5.2 Benefit from Theory of Constraints in Retail
The Theory of Constraints (TOC) argues that good growth can be achieved by focusing on the one or two limiting factors or “Constraints” in a production system. This article applies TOC to the Wholesale/Retail sector.