TEMpting; How Business Buyers and Sellers Have Been Tempted This Week…

How Saleable is Your Business in 2014?
How Saleable do you want Your Business 2014?
What are you waiting for? GET YOUR SCORE…

Slowly but surely getting into the new year. Judging by the number of queries since returning back to the office would indicate that:
a) many business owners want to explore the sell option
b) many potential business owners have gone “shopping”

It will be interesting to see how all pans out…

GOT A WEBSITE FOR SALE?
If yes, please 
email me at dhall@businessbrokers.com.au

And you…what does 2014 bring?
If any of the following tickle your fancy, please email me at dhall@businessbrokers.com.au, letting me know which one it is…


FOR SALE…

BS30 Online Venue Business

Completed Sellability Score
2 new inquiries have come through so lets see what happens with them

BS43 Tourism

Deposit locked and loaded. Settlement planned for February.
When it’s a good thing, it pays to act quickly.

BS49 Home Help…

This is an interesting one. Mainly because it is playing in a growth industry but the players looking at it are playing small. The revisit of the presentation certainly worked, had a great meeting this morning with a most eligible buyer!

BS53 Balloons! and all that goes with them…

Such corporate appeal, so untapped. Potential buyers have stalled a little now. It’s waiting for the savvy operator that can see past the retail component. Needs to be thought more of as a warehouse!

BS57 Online Business

Signed good to go. A true online business at that ie all is in place, it’s making money and it dropships! In the process of developing the IM now. Stay tuned.

OR
Are you interested in?

  • photographic studio x 2
  • skin care range and premise
  • a particular event
  • event management

If yes, let me know what these are what came in this week…

 

Exploring the Sale Option?

GET YOUR SCORE…

Onwards and Upwards!

Buy | Sell websites – got one to sell?

Buy | Sell Websites

 

So I’ve been shopping haven’t I.
Keen to make my next purchase.
But… the ones I’ve looked at in the past week just haven’t met the mark.

That said, I’m assuming that more websites will definitely come on the market progressively over the next weeks, once everyone is back in the swing of things, post the festive season.

I must say though… how addictive is Flippa!

I can get lost for hours trawling through all the sites on sale, most of which don’t meet my criteria but then it’s a bit like any shopping really. You can spend a whole lot of time doing it even though you have something quite specific in mind. I’m confident I’ll have found just the thing to purchase by this time next week.

If you have a website you’d like to sell and want me to have a look at, please drop me a line to sell@theentrepreneurialmother.com

Happy to explore that as an option with you…

 

schools have to have an Online Strategy too…

 

The school Daughter attends (pictured) has long recognised the need for an Online Strategy and like most businesses (of which a school is 0ne), the  expertise to deliver it is not inhouse.

So last week I arranged one of my colleagues to sit down with the Sophia Mundi Steiner School Principal, the Parent Committee representative and Marketing Coordinator, the Chairman of the Board, the Registrar and myself to share and nut out what we proposed (based on previous conversations) and how to roll it out… a most productive meeting I must say.

The Online Strategy is now full steam ahead, with rollout commencing before school even goes back.

I’m very excited about this one as it has a direct bearing on not only the continued success of the school itself but also on a personal level. Daughter and I have invested time, effort and money into this fine establishment and we want more to know about it, we want to share the love! What better way than to ramp up the Online presence so others can find out more.

The other option is to call me and I’ll give my glowing testimonial!

If you want to follow its transition, keep your eye on http://www.sophiamundi.vic.edu.au/

If you want to explore more about what a Steiner education, an alternative education, can do for you and/or your child, feel free to download “Swimming Against the Current”, an expose I put together from students, parents and teachers alike sharing the good, the bad and the ugly of their experiences.

A most enlightening read, even if I say so myself!

wanna-be entrepreneurial mothers – juggle don’t struggle…

"umbrella" companies can help...

Easier said than done, right?

As you know, we often have a lot to deal with in our daily lives and quite often, all at the same time. Many find it hard to balance business with the demands of raising a family. The good news is that striking a balance between the two is not as hard to do as you may think.

In recent times, many entrepreneurial mothers have opted for freelancing and consulting over salaried employment, as did I when I started. Some of you may have decided to quit employment in favour of starting your own businesses while others may have lost the jobs they had. Being a Consultant and Freelancing offers the flexibility of pursuing business aspirations and/or careers while still fulfilling family responsibilities.

By the same token, thanks to setting up your consultancy by freelancing, wanna-be entrepreneurial mothers no longer have to end businesses or careers once they decide to start a family.

Although starting a personal business is thoroughly satisfying, it comes with a fair share of challenges. Savvy entrepreneurial mothers learn how to meet these challenges while expanding their businesses and raising a healthy family.

Simple, general business tips for working mothers:

  • Effective time management.

Mothers who run their own businesses while bringing up children need to develop effective time management skills. This calls for prioritisation of tasks and drawing up a time-schedule to ensure all important or urgent functions are dealt with first. It is also important to learn how to juggle or outsource various roles to make sure everything is done on time. The one key requirement with this is discipline!

  • Creating boundaries

Another vital skill for working mothers is learning how to set well defined boundaries between their businesses and their home lives. The boundary can be as simple as designating a separate room in the house as the office. Boundaries help to ensure that business duties do not spill over or interfere with running the home and vice versa. They also help the mother to make the mental switch from homemaker to businesswoman.

  • Outsourcing unnecessary tasks

An entrepreneurial mother who wishes to make the most of her business should outsource some of the business functions to external third parties. This would assist in freeing up valuable time and resources to concentrate on business growth and expansion. Outsourcing also allows a businesswoman to complete tasks in a short period, leaving more time for her important business tasks and her family.

  • Working with umbrella companies

Working mothers who do hire subcontractors might find it time-consuming to deal with payroll issues. This can also be the case when being subcontractors, i.e. when freelancing themselves. This is where an umbrella company comes in handy. These companies act as intermediaries between the hiring organisations and subcontractors. They effectively take over administrative and payroll duties, reducing the strain on entrepreneurs.

Additionally, they make all the necessary tax and insurance deductions from the subcontractors’ salaries, saving business owners the hassle of calculating those for themselves.

  • Managing finances

Finally, mothers who run businesses need to know how to manage their finances, both for their business’s and their family’s sake. Other than hiring accountants or financial officers to handle the accounts, a business owner should take the initiative of learning how to embrace cost-effective methods and streamline business expenditure.

Sometimes the umbrella companies will offer to do this for them. Alternatively, there are a number of Online options which may suit.

Entrepreneurial mothers also ought to seek out how to take advantage of any available tax breaks, reliefs or credits they are entitled to receive.

Having just spent the Christmas break reworking the entrepreneurial mothers® Online Mothers Group, it reminded me of just how important getting these tips right, as they are for you. If you’re interested in finding out more about the Online Mothers Group, drop me a line at info@theentrepreneurialmother.com

you have to do the HARD things…

sometimes...

 

Shared a great post on social media during the week and thought it important to share with the entrepreneurial mothers community as well… so here it is:

YOU HAVE TO DO THE HARD THINGS…
and there’s a list of them!

I’m pretty confident in saying that I have agonised over a number of these, if not all, through my working life and I suspect you have to.

Regardless, find a way and do what you need to do…

The things that no one else is doing. The things that scare you. The things that make you wonder how much longer you can hold on.

Those are the things that define you. Those are the things that make the difference between living a life of mediocrity or outrageous success.

The hard things are the easiest things to avoid.  To excuse away. To pretend like they don’t apply to you.

The simple truth about how ordinary people accomplish outrageous feats of success is that they do the hard things that smarter, wealthier, more qualified people don’t have the courage — or desperation — to do.

Do the hard things. You might be surprised at how amazing you really are.

Pin It on Pinterest