How to manage The Business

[Not Work In It]

How to Manage Your Business To Succeed


Do you look at successful businesses, and wonder how they did it? Here’s the simple truth - it wasn’t luck, and it wasn’t hard work. Somewhere along the way, there were business management lessons you never learnt.

Pete & Foliage

Manage the business, don’t work in it


When I coach your business, I help you to learn the management principles that make every day a giant step forward.

Success leaves clues and by following my proven framework, you’ll discover how to manage the business you own so that it grows around you.


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✔ How to organise your business for growth

✔ Securing new business and bigger contracts

✔ Creating marketing programs that work, for less

✔ Establishing key networks and becoming a favourite supplier

✔ Establishing quality-control programs and marketing them

Creating a brand that stands out from the pack

✔ Getting your staff motivated through incentives that work

Delegating the work that you shouldn’t be doing

✔ Setting up business finance that’s independent from personal assets

✔ Designing targets that can be measured so you know you’re growing

Cutting costs significantly through competitive tendering on each job

✔ Using technology to slash hours of work from your day

✔ Building an aura of ‘success’ around your brand

These lessons are NOT INTUITIVE

There’s no business college that teaches these lessons – yet these are the lessons that help you succeed.
Most people have to fail once or twice before they learn them, leading to significant setbacks financially and emotionally.

But I can give them to you today.

EXAMPLE #1:

The Myth of ‘Hard Work’

Do you understand the dynamics of a small business? 

Most owners work IN THE BUSINESS, doing things they can hire someone for. This might save you money, but it also means that your business CANNOT GROW because growth is limited by the hours you can work.

This approach places a limit on your growth that you can NEVER exceed, no matter how hard you work or how many extra hours you sacrifice.

EXAMPLE #2:

Being Busy is NOT Being Productive

How many times have you heard a small business owner complain that they were working so hard they had no time for marketing, and all the bookwork and admin was done at night? 

That’s a business that is doomed to fail.

If you can’t find the time to invest in your own personal growth, your success will be stunted.

Is coaching right for you?

If you think you know most things and are just looking for a few quick tips to ‘magically’ give you the answers, then coaching probably won’t help you.

On the other hand, if you realise that you’ve run out of options and that you don’t have all the answers, then coaching will work wonders for your business.

Can you give a commitment?

When I coach, I need a solid commitment from you, otherwise, I’ll be wasting my time and yours.

Together, we’ll work out a series of strategic steps, and at every point, I’ll keep driving the lessons home, to help you develop the sort of business mind that you need to manage the business going forward.

If you’re ready to manage your business to succeed, it all starts with one phone call.

Ready to increase your business horsepower?
Book in now for your FREE 30-minute coaching session.