Updating your Risk Management

INSURANCE UPDATES Just a quick reminder - you should declare all of your business entities to your insurance broker.   You need to let them know all of your company, trust, registered trading and domain names that are associated with your business. Don’t take a punt on the policy wording picking up all ... Read More

Building Relationships Using Newsletters

The Use of Marketing Newsletters If you are a client or prospect of mine you will have recently received an invitation to unsubscribe off my newsletter list if you wished. Sounds like it is in reverse? Well not really, like so many other businesses we gather all types of information from our customers and ... Read More

Memories, Thoughts and Photographs

Organizational Planning Recently I volunteered to present a short overview of Organisational Planning to a local business group. I love this type of analytical business stuff, but was looking for a worthy quote which would reflect the need to plan organisations. Well I found it reading the Peter ... Read More

Business Planning – Platforming Systems for Growth Part II

Continuing on from the last blog post, Systemizing your Platform.  What are the advantages? My third image is to show the expected effect on your platform by way of systemizing your existing platform.  We are then achieving the maximum efficiency out of your current people, equipment, procedures etc.... Read More

Business Planning – Platforming Systems for Growth Part I

What is Business Platforming and why does it affect Business Systems? One of the most common queries regards when we start to talk with clients about what platform their business has and how they manage the business systems to get the most out of that platform. All too often there is a blank look and ... Read More

Business Planning – Using Software

Using Business Planning Software for planning your business and organization. There are several business planning software packages out there and available for immediate download on the internet.  What you need to establish in researching them is what do you want from these packages? Doing a internet search on this term will reveal an array of ... Read More

Business Plan – It's all on scraps of paper!

On our previous post We discussed getting your idea out of your head and onto paper in a visual form. This is the first step to starting to organize and arrange all that information that is floating around in your brain.   Sometimes what happens next is that this generates a whole new drive on ... Read More

Organizational Structure and Planning – A must do activity!

Organizational Structure and Planning is the clearly defined pathway to where you are heading! It compliments all of your Organizational roles (Job Descriptions), Branding, Marketing, Systems design, and underpins your Ethos and business values. At Amplio we teach a quick one page business planning tool to simplify and clarify what your next steps ... Read More