The Business Behind Your Business - Real Advice to Help Small Business Owners Build, Lead and Thrive

Understanding your rights and obligations and making sure you have essential legal agreements in place is crucial for every business. Start off on the right track when your relationships with business partners are still in the honeymoon phase. Law ultimately is about relationships. It's about managing relationships between people. Philip van den Heever from Frank Law shares his thoughts on th...

Jason Smith from Capital Plus Finance discusses why being prepared is crucial for a successful finance application. Why do finance applications get rejected? Why won't my bank lend to me? How can a broker help me find the right type and source of finance for me? Jason Smith answers these questions and more. What does a business need to do to prepare for a finance application and what are bank...

When business goals are not being achieved, it generally means that there are two or three key issues that haven’t been solved satisfactorily. Long term solutions are required to prevent the business owner from ‘putting out the same fires’ over and over again. It’s accepted that every business will have a dozen or more issues, but in general there are three or four ‘make or break’ problems that st...

In this episode we're discussing why it's important to extract wealth from your business. Jim Mills is the principle adviser and managing director of Merit Planning Hills. Jim shares from his experience why it is so important for business owners to create and extract wealth from their business. One of the key reasons we go into business is to create wealth and fund the lifestyle we want....

Paul Cripps, founder of PK People Solutions discusses how there is often more than one aspect to a business human resources issues, and how an "advisor team" approach can deliver more effective outcomes in terms of employee motivation, effectiveness and profitability. Paul Cripps provides operational and strategic HR solutions in collaboration with business leaders and key stakeholders H...

Welcome to The Business Behind Your Business podcast Conversations to help your business grow and thrive. It's like having your own board of expert advisers in your pocket. Join your host Paul Sweeney and our team of expert advisers as we take a deep dive into the problems, and solutions for issues faced by business owners. In our 15-20 minute podcasts we’ll discuss information and advice fro...