Accounting and Finance

Caribbean small business owners: Where are you going to get the money?

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When you get an idea or when you want to expand your business or invest in some business education, where do you get the money?

In this video, I’ll share with you 2 schools of thought (I suggest you combine both for exponential results!) that you can use right now to grow your business.

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Free video series: Understanding your small business financials

No Comments » Written on May 4th, 2012 by
Categories: Accounting and Finance, Company

 We’re proud to present our new video series:

 ”How Caribbean Small Business Owners Can End the Confusion and Frustration and finally understand their business financials, even if you’ve never studied accounting….ever!”

 

In this free video series, you’ll learn:

  • Why Caribbean Small Business Owners Need to Understand Their Financial Statements or face the constant struggle and frustration in running their business
  • The Small Business Owners main problem that keeps their business from becoming more profitable
  • The 3 most important statements that YOU, as a business owner, MUST understand and MUST monitor on a consistent basis
  • The 2 other important statements that are crucial to controlling your cash flow

During this video series, I’ll also share details on the 16-week bootcamp coming up in May. In this bootcamp I take the veil off and have you look over my shoulder as I create a company, set up their accounts, analyse the details of the business. You’ll learn all the secrets that your accountant keeps to himself! I’ll answer your questions to ensure that you can go confidently and grow your business.

Please feel free to invite your friends but please reserve your space here first.

Caribbean small business owners, How Are You Doing Money?

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“How You Do Money is How You Do Everything!”

When I first heard this I admit it I was pissed off!!!

“What do they know about how I’m ‘doing’ my money?” I thought to myself.

But if you’re not controlled by your ego you know that after anger, comes thought and real deep thought too!

Are they right?

First of all what are they talking about?

Who are “They” anyway?

Well I began to explore this further. I’ve always been fascinated by money and why some have it and other never seem to have it and always struggle.

Here’s what I discovered: Read the rest of this entry »

Who’s Your Private Banker?

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I’ve Been Banned!

I went in to my bank last week and was asked to leave!

Okay okay hear me out…it’s not as bad as you think! There’s a story behind it.

Everytime I go into my banks (I use 2 banks for my business) I practically say “Hi!” or exchange pleasantries with everyone I meet. (I let them know that I work them because of the amount of service charge that they deduct from my account every month.)

So on this particular morning I went to a meeting with my account officer for a new business savings account and chatted with a few people as the bank was not exactly full.

That prompted one of the senior managers to come out of his office and declare that they were going to ban me from coming into the bank! He said that I would have to only use their online banking because everytime I come in there, the productivity of the bank goes down!

What? I was horrified!

He laughed and continued to ask me something about if I was watching the cricket. As if… :-)

I tell you this story to let you know that it’s very important to have a great relationship with your bankers…especially if you’re a small business owner!

Having good relationships with your bank will: Read the rest of this entry »

Caribbean small business owners, are you tracking your numbers?

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In this video I share with why you need to start tracking your figures and 3 easy ways to start tracking your numbers today to increase your business success. Enjoy!

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