About Mybusinessnow

Mybusinessnow is a business training, coaching, consulting and strategising "hub".  Working with small, medium, franchise and even large businesses, identifying where they need help and focus and then providing them with tools through training, strategies, solutions and support to give them every chance of success and real growth.

With over 33 year's experience in running my own successful small businesses, the later for almost 25 years, with an international franchise chain, and after selling continuing to consult to the franchisor for a further 2 and a half years in supporting their company owned franchises around Australia. Checkout the pictures above (yes there was more hair then!) for a brief outline of my business background.

• I started my first business around 1976 (I was 17) when one day I decided to go into the coffee table business. I made six, sold three at the local markets that weekend, came home and never did it again. It proved you can sell anything once. Anything! But do it over and over, and in big enough quantities and at a high enough profit margin, is another thing altogether. But yes, anything can sell!
• We started our real business life in 1987, purchased a picture framing business on the Gold Coast, Qld, Australia, improved systems, manufacturing, rebranded, better marketing, developing a CRM program to maintain and build relationships with existing clients and identified new product opportunities that massively grew the business over the next five years and then sold, to buy our next business. We built JV relationships with other local business to combine efforts in branding and marketing that grew all aspects of the businesses.
• Our second business was the Bartercard Brisbane West franchise purchased in November 1993. A greenfield franchise region building it into one of the largest franchises in the country, employing more than a dozen people at any one time, finalist in FCA franchise of the year awards, winner of the "Super Eight" franchises, number of staff winning both sales and service national awards and going onto becoming one of the longest serving franchisees in Bartercard and then selling back to Bartercard (22 years is long enough) in 2015. We survived the 2011 flood, where 2 metres of water totally destroyed our office. Everything (like everyone's property) was thrown out on the street) We found a new office (at higher ground) bought new equipment and desks for the team, farmed our team out to another office and were able to keep working and  after four weeks we were back operating out of our new location at Monier Rd, Darra. 
• MyBusinessNow began in late 2018 running monthly business workshops in Brisbane, and now operate from our base on the Sunshine Coast, Qld.

I have worked closely with thousands of SMEs around the country in support of their image, branding, marketing, as well as sales, service and staff recruitment and management as well as planning.
 

Dealing with profitable SME businesses, I know what makes businesses successful and what doesn’t. There are too many common themes, too many common oversights (mistakes), and too many re-occurring lessons learn't that need to be shared.
 

Throughout my business focused career, I now know what works well, what doesn't and what needs to be done, to grow a business easier, better, faster and more profitably.
 

As well as recruiting, training and managing both sales and customer service teams, I have worked with thousands of small to medium sized business over the years and I have simply seen far too many 'potentially successful small businesses go down, simply because they couldn't see where they were going wrong or weren't doing. 

The fundamentals behind Mybusinessnow is simple, quick and easy training, that develops skills and confidence that make the entire process of building businesses that actually grow, uncomplicated and importantly, eliminate the overwhelm that most business owners feel. We have developed a business training program and a series of business tools, checklists and guides, that make it simpler than ever before!
 

Mybusinessnow, Business180, ReThinkBusinessGrowth, SideHustleStartup and Marketing360 are all about business growth, by attracting as many clients as possible, getting them back often and then  referring others to do the same. 

It's not complicated, in fact it's easy! It's just not simple, and if you don't know what you don't know, then the success you want, may never happen. 

To me business success and growth is simple. I've seen it and I've done it and seen businesses and professionals succeed because they did what was needed, but I've also seen to many fail, because they didn't.

MyBusinessNow current projects:

• Mybusinessnow and the Business180 program is the most straight forward and common sense business growth program available. It's a monthly step by step workshop and strategic support program, that focuses on the fundamental 12 pillars of your business, develops skills and strategies to improve them, to help the business grow.
• Start, build, grow. If the idea is to get a business going fast, then the idea is to focus on the 5 foundations, and get them right, from the start. 
• ReThinkBusinessGrowth. Build, grow, scale and even exit easier. This is the reboot program designed for businesses that are stuck and are looking for a fast fix. Three months working on the 5 core drivers that will help identify an extra $50, $100, $250,000 or more in your business.
• Marketing360 : Find out how to get the brand, profile and marketing working. If people can't find, see, hear, or remember you, they won't buy! It's not just about throwing more money at it. If you don't know what works, you can't scale it.
• SideHustleStartup: Not everyone wants a full-time gig! A side hustle, weekend, or part time business might be just what you're after. But even as a side hustle, you still want to get it right, to get a better result.
• The 5 minute plan. A major reason that businesses don't plan, is because it's all too complicated, or they think it is, so it doesn't get done, let alone looked at again. Our 5-minute planning system takes that excuse away. Planning is key, but reviewing it is even more important. Are you on track? Check it out here.

There's no point in trying to find a quick, easy fix, that's what most try and do, but having said that, once you know what to do it can happen quickly by just doing the right things and doing everything else better.
 

You could spend a small fortune (or even a large one) on a great marketing and sales strategy. But if the rest of the business doesn't match your clients expectations, you may make a quick sale, but they probably wont be back, and they definitely wont refer anyone!
 

Here's a thought! If you could only build your business from word of mouth referrals, no advertising, no branding, no signage, what would you do differently?
 

That's how every business owner should think about building their business. The way you attract, keep and continue to sell to your clients, then encourage referrals from them to do the same.

Stage 1: Mybusinessnow and Business180, asks and reviews four key aspects of your business: 

1. What are you doing now? 
2. Whats your businesses market potential? 
3. Whats your businesses maximised potential? 
4. And whats the lost potential costing you right now?  
    

Stage 2: Where are the gaps, the skills shortages in the team, managers and owner and improvement areas needed?  

• Review, rate and score 
• Identify the priority areas needed that will make the most positive change first. 
• Plan, review and adjust! (But follow the plan, the goal, the objective!

Stage 3: Start the process                                                          

• Training, coaching 
• Consulting, strategizing 
• Ongoing support, ensure what is learnt, is used and your business grows  Over 95% of what gets learnt at workshops and seminars gets forgotten and never used after 24 hours, because there's almost always no review, support and accountability process. You're on your own!
   

Mybusinessnow's objective is to change a number! Over 80% of all businesses fail in the first five years and of the ones that made it through, 80% of them fail in the second five years! I want to change that statistic and it can be done!