Business Strategy: 12 Steps to Business Sanity: What YOU Need to Know NOW to Optimize your Profits, and Your Time, Grow Your Business, and Get Your Life Back Too!

Are you a small business owner? Or… does your small business own you? If • you don’t have the luxury of determining the hours you ‘want’ to work • income or cash flow stops without your direct involvement • you lie awake at night with the fear of failure, of letting your family, your employees, and all those who depend on you, down Then you need to know, THERE IS A BETTER WAY! Do you want to: • to choose the amount of time you spend working • a guarantee that income and cash flow will continue even if you’re not there? • the reassurance that your employees are as committed to the success of your business as you are? That your employees are as capable of doing the job as you are? • right business model’ so you don’t end up in a self-imposed prison? This book tells you EXACTLY what you need to do, to grow your business, and profits, while still "getting your life back". It provides detailed action lists for each step, so that you know PRECISELY how to progress through each step and get the results that you want! Learn how to: • Make sure, at each step, that you understand how your thoughts about that aspect of your business influence your results • Look at your cash flow, and your customers, to turn your results around • Look at your time, and that of your staff, differently to get much more effective results • Assess parts of your business, in the right order, so that issues and opportunities can be clearly identified • Know how often you need to review your business to keep things on track • Assess the intangible value of a customer to your business, as well as their direct cash value. • Take your subjective views on what is happening and create objective measures of the value of your customers, your product’s performance and your methods of delivering your products. • Keep things on track, as your business grows and evolves over time • Develop Action Plans that really work for you FAST! • Develop a deep understanding of exactly what is happening in your business, and why. • Understand where your personal time is going, and change that to get the maximum benefit from everything you do. OK, I can understand you’re probably thinking, "Will this work for me ?" And I can’t blame you for wondering. You’ve probably had countless Small Business consultants tell you how you should and shouldn’t be working, but never provide any ‘real’ or lasting improvements. There are reasons for that. Firstly, most consultants are great at, well, they’re great at consulting. They don’t actually show you ‘how’, only ‘what’ needs to be done. But the most revealing reason they don’t provide you with real or lasting improvements is because they are small business’ consultants. What do I mean by that? Simply, they treat your business as a ‘small’ business! They only know how to keep you small. Your business supports you, your family, your employees and their families. I’m guessing your ‘small’ business is a BIG deal to you. And that’s what makes all the difference in this program, which is based on the operating procedures and principles that makes Big Business BIG! Most small businesses fold within the first five years, whereas, big business continues to grow and grow each year Do you want our business to grow bigger and stronger year by year? If you do, as the majority of business owners do, then the 12 Steps approach will enable you to achieve all of that, and more, growing your Business and improving your Lifestyle.

Kim Lambert has extensive business experience in a wide range of areas, from Government and Corporate, to both online and offline small business, wholesale, retail and support services. She has worked in fields covering everything from Floristry to Information Technology. She owns a number of small businesses currently and is focusing on the areas of Publishing and Photography at present, whilst also progressively translating years of Business experience into this book series. She has been a speaker at conferences on topics as diverse as Women in Business, and Enterprise, IT and Business Architecture. She holds a Graduate Diploma in Applied Science from Charles Sturt University. She has previously published business articles in magazines, Travel articles online, cook books (available on Amazon and through resellers) and photography books (Detailed Beauty – Australia Through The Macro Lens, available on www.Blurb.com, with a new edition due out soon on Amazon, and “The Photographer’s Quick Guide to Earning Money From Your Photos”, available on Amazon and from other good booksellers now.) Should you wish to enquire re articles, speaking engagements or business consultation, she can be contacted through the publisher of this book (info@dreamstone.com.au ).