Business Solutions at Eyland.com.au

Let us help you with the following business solutions:

Business Planning

• Developing a written business plan
• Strategy, Vision &/or Mission
• business structure
• S.W.O.T. - Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities & Threats
• understanding the commercial environment of your business.

Financing decisions

• How do you determine sufficient start up capital?
• overdraft or term lending
• mortgages
• Director's guarantees to the business (are you prepared to risk your family home?)
• decision to buy or lease equipment
• balance sheet
• cash flow
• debtors - keep an eye on receipts & bank them quickly
• creditors -keep them happy by informing the Bank early if you are having difficulty meeting your financial arrangements
• contractual arrangements - hire agreements
• importing - bills of lading
• alternative forms of finance - particularly using other people's money (not your own).

Determining what kind of business you want

• Retail or wholesaler
• Hours of business
• Rent a shop or sell door-to-door
• Sell at the markets or sell on-line over the Internet.

Customers

• Determine who are your real customers
• how to find customers after you have sold to all your family & friends
• are your customers unique in some way?

Determine what is your Business's "special edge"

• niche markets
• keeping ahead of competitors
• re-branding or re-inventing the business & keeping ideas fresh
• purchasing or producing
• or importing something new or desirable

Staff & Procedures

• How to employ, train, retain & reward staff
• How to keep the family happy & supportive
• customer policies - returns, refunds, shipping, repeat business, retaining customers & maintaining satisfaction
• in-house procedures eg purchasing, stock control, accounting, payroll etc
• credit card merchant, pay pal or phone orders.

Growth of Businesses

• How to rejuvenate a medium sized business
• Economies of scale - "think big until you grow big enough to be economical"
• Supply chain solutions
• Succession planning - the Business is a separate entity that may outlive the initial proprietor. How to prepare to hand the business onto the next generation.

Marketing Material & Effective Advertising

• Advertising - print, TV, radio, billboards, networking etc
• How much to spend on advertising costs.
• Web site including graphics, banner, wallpaper, on-line shopping cart
• Sales Material - including business cards, brochures, labels, signs, posters, flyers, catalogues, manuals.
• Visual Presentations - PC power point, Mac Keynote presentations etc

Protection of intellectual property

• including registration of Business name,
• protection of Business logo including font, colors
• & registration of Domain name for web site.

If you want to contact us by phone or by snail mail see the web page called contact us>

If you want some business solutions or coaching then use the following

Business Email: insula@bigpond.com