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Okay, so what are some principles that you've learned, from your time the military that could be easily applied to businesses? Well, I guess I had a bit of a think about this before and we have it there's a bit of a, there's a quote that's borrowed from I think it's from Dwight Eisenhower, which was the plan is nothing and planning is everything. And I think there's this notion in the military tha...

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Essentially, when women are pregnant, especially even leading up to pregnancy when they try to get pregnant when they're breastfeeding, it is recommended by health care professionals that they should be having a maximum amount of about 200 milligrams of caffeine a day. I don't know if you've seen Monty Python's the meaning of life. I have It's been a while but I've definitely there's that scene wh...

And in the last round of research that we did, which was timed for the second week of July, so just as we're going into that second lockdown, that figure reduce, so now 41% are saying it's not the time to be hiring new staff so people, businesses are starting to think a little bit more around how they're going to come out of this. Sadly, I you know, the economic circumstance is such that there are...

Okay, essentially, a buyer's agent is, I guess the opposite to a selling agent. So everyone who's selling a property generally has a real estate agent who's selling the property on their behalf. a buyer's agent actually represents the buyer of a property so instead of just going straight to the real estate agent and trying to negotiate on a property through them, you actually use a buyer's agent w...

We are talking about the updates, job keeper in particular and the exposure for businesses on COVID-19. We're doing this one as a special update. Yeah, so job keeping change 21st of July was announced by Treasury. And the changes are that there's a gradual scaling down with the job keeper payment. But it's also recognizing that some of the part timers getting being paid on the job keeper, were in...

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Invoice finance just provides upfront payments to you for your invoices. So effectively you're using the assets on your balance sheet, which are your invoices. just bringing the payment forward to you, you're getting your money faster. I'm thinking about growing this business, for example, in different ways. And I guess it depends on your appetite to risk so would you say, now's a good time to tak...

That's a really good question. Because the moment you start thinking about limits, of course, everyone has their own So our beliefs are essentially on buttons and off buttons that tell us what we can and what we can't do, they're not necessarily true. In fact, there's a real clue in the word belief. There's the word lie right in the middle. And what is true for someone can be completely untrue for...

But it was the biggest lesson that I learned. And that was to keep testing contact forms or any forms on the website and to have other ways for people to contact you. I've heard a lot of internet marketers saying, you know, you just need a landing page and run your business. Now, people want to know who you are. They want to know that they can trust you. And the best way they get can get to know y...

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Interview with David from Soldonline.com.au. There's too many businesses that are relying upon the traditional methods of doing their business. And unfortunately, I think they're being left behind. So every business I can think of needs to embrace technological innovation of some description, too remain relevant. There are a couple of things that have happened during this COVID-19 disaster and one...

But I also love working with millennials as well because what you do with your finances in your 20s and 30s is going to make far more of a difference in what you do in your 50s and 60 So you can go on my website and there is a link to a budgeting course and that's for $25 it's distributed through Udemy. And for two hours, you can go through that course yourself and learn how to budget properly

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Certainly in the move to online and the there's various ways of the new economy moving forward and what have you. But one of the things is that you do help businesses in the cloud, and in the cloud is still fairly well, I would say, unknown for people, but people don't understand it enough. So it's that whole concept of work anytime, anywhere, right? The cloud has allowed for us to get the data th...

Essentially what the event has done is compressed what might have been five years of adaption of technology and new systems into a very short timeframe. Something that we've always focused on in the business, I've seen really great organizations within my sector lose their relevancy because they can't evolve or don't want to evolve with changing times. So quite early on in the piece and made it a...

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And certainly there's all discipline, a lot of things in common with martial arts and running a business. On Zoom when you're looking when you're talking about legwork, and balance and everything else and you can only see half the equation how did that go? Well I got really good at telling the kids that I could tell that their feet weren't pointing the right direction based on which way their hips...

But then the other part is yes, putting money aside to be able to pay yourself As the owner of the business and as an employee of the business that you know, you're doing the daily work, you want to make sure that you're getting paid for that I've got this awesome business I've been working with with growing sales, but they say to me, you know, there's no money there's no cash in the business at t...

News on the past week ending 10/07/2020 and whats coming up from 13/07/2020

Why would you want to spend two years living on a boat with three kids? Being brave enough and prepared enough to go and see what's next, especially after the event that we've just had. What would inspire others to go and do something like that? Yeah, that's a good question So it's scary, I get that. But when you do take that leap, and you know, it's very cliché and people would have heard it all...

James talks about the importance of being able to pivot rapidly to grab opportunities. As well as preparing an exit strategy when you write your initial business plan.

Whats happened this week ending 03062020. Also whats happening in the week to come from 06072020. New office, Review of Power Partner Pods and getting ready for face to face meetings.

David in Brisbane, Terng in Singapore and Tony in Sydney ask whats next.

The NDIS scheme is something that was implemented a few years ago and SDA stands for specialist disability accommodation, and it is a $700 million funding stream within the broader NDIS scheme which stands for national disability insurance scheme. And basically that provides some $200 billion worth of services across the board for people with disabilities and the SDA services a select group who ar...