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Practical Management Tips for Small Business Owners. Short introductions to useful tools to grow profit and help to address issues as they arise.
Episodes
26 episodes
Pick a Profitable Business Niche with 90 Day GamePlan
Use this prefabricated 12faces 90 Day GamePlan to choose a business nice you like and which is tested for profitability before you launch.Read more on this link
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13:57
Use MER to optimize your Business Routines
Use the Minimum Effective Routines (MER) technique to reduce stress and complexity by overhauling and streamlining the most critical Routines in your business
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11:34
Introduction to 90 Day GamePlan Small Business Planning
Get an introduction to our 90 Day GamePlan system. A longer Sprint to help guide you towards your business Goal. Takes under 30 minutes to learn and start implementing.
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14:25
12Faces Repeatable Sprint Cycle Reduces Stress
This podcast also appears in the article describing how you can start using 1-2 week Sprints to better manage the host of jobs outstanding.It shows how to prioritise out...
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9:16
12Faces GamePlan Sprints
This podcast explains GamePlan Sprints. These are short (1-4 week) steps towards competing a quarterly GamePlan major project.LID12
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5:43
12Faces Quarterly GamePlan System
Podcast of an introductory Lesson on the 12Faces Monthly GamePlan System.LID11
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6:45
GamePlan Destination Lesson
This is the podcast of a video lesson on how to develop the Destination part of your 12Faces GamePlan Business Planning Strategy
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9:22
12Faces GamePlans in Detail
The "GamePlan System" offers a practical, adaptable routine designed to help small business owners "work smarter, not harder" and achieve sustainable business success. Unlike traditional, rigid five-year plans, ...
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Season 2025
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Episode 1
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26:02
NID52: Realistic Small Business Planning
Most textbook business planning is unsuited to the realities of small business. Expecting detailed financial projections in 3 to 5 year's time is totally unrealistic when a small business can barely see...
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4:27
NID51 Business Analytics for Small Business
Just like an iceberg only shows 1/8th of its mass above water, your accounts have many more things they can tell you if you go looking.But many analysis tools assume a fair degree of experience and management and accounting training.&nb...
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4:26
NID50 Business Coaching
It is often hard for business Founders to "brainstorm" business issues with others.Friends and family may not have much business management experience. It might not be appropriate to discuss some ...
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3:02
NID49 90 Day Failing Business Turnaround Plan
Up to 1 in 5 businesses are failing at any point in time.This is a sad loss of time, money and effort and generates a lot of stress on business' owners.With small businesses, the owner is generally good in the area of their professi...
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4:44
NID48 How to Grow a Local Service Business depends on its Headcount
Local Services Businesses are those that draw customers from a few towns or suburbs around the business's office location. Examples include building trades like plumbers, health professionals like dentists and professional serv...
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4:34
NID47 Business Diagnostics Funnel System
Every business operator faces nagging problems from time to time that might be challenging to think of how to solve them.Many managers are professionally trained in their operational area but less experienced with the management side of...
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4:50
NID46 Introduction to Business Diagnostics
Most business owners and managers have nagging issues in their business that they are not sure how to resolve; so they tend to just stay there and build up.The 12Faces Business Diagnostics system is a user-friendly way to narrow down th...
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5:20
Nugget 45: Tracking the Buyer's Journey
Anyone who might become your client moves through several stages in what has become known as the Buyer's Journey. Your marketing needs to cover each stage so that you get the best outcome from your marketing.We say the stages are;&nbs...
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12:14
Nugget 44: Local Area Marketing
Many businesses draw customers from a catchment area around their location. Example business include building trades, health professionals, lawyers, architects. This podcast introduces Local Area Marketing as part o...
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10:14
Nugget 31: Sustainable Business Success
The Mission of 12Faces is your Sustainable Business Success! This podcast introduces our approach to your Success and how to make that Success Sustainable. ID31Read More:
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Episode 31
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8:17
Nugget 18: One Part of Sales Funnel Must Focus On
Although a sales funnel is a very busy place, you can dramatically improve sales while reducing your consumption of time and other resources by identifying and focusing on just one part of the Funnel. Listen for more. ID18More Inf...
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Episode 18
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6:36
Nugget 28: HIPPO Effect Reduces Effectiveness of Team Meetings
The HIPPO effect in meetings can greatly reduce participation and contribution. Learn how to avoid its adverse impact. ID28More Info: https://www.12faces.business/...
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Episode 17
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7:35
Nugget 16: Local Optima Damages Profit
Making every step of your service or production workflow produce as much volume as possible seems like a sensible idea. Hear why that is faulty thinking that may damage your profit. ID16More Info:
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Episode 16
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7:54
Nugget 27: 1% Price Change, 11% Profit Increase
A tiny increase of just 1% in your prices can lead to an average 11% increase in profit research at 1,200 businesses has shown. Hear how to tap into this profit boosting idea. ID27More Info:
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Episode 15
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6:54
Nugget 14: The Importance of a Destination for Your Business
Having no clear destination in mind for your business means you will get lost! Discusses several timeframes for business planning and the characteristics of a well designed SMART Goal. ID 14More Info:
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Episode 14
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6:59