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Productivity - emails
How much is email costing your organisation every year, well according to a report from the International Journal of Internet and...

Alec Drew - The Business Expert
Mar 24, 20213 min read


3 questions to ask yourself about technology
I arrived home one day to see the new 55 inch flat screen TV with a child's fingermarks all over the screen. Strange I thought as I...

Alec Drew - The Business Expert
Mar 18, 20213 min read


Strategic Plan checklist and planner
We are forever hearing about the importance of Strategic Planning but from experience most business owners don't have the time to get...

Alec Drew - The Business Expert
Mar 1, 20212 min read


Opportunities are all around you
Let me ask you a question, how many people know what you do? Typically the answer I will get is that everyone knows and yet the evidence...

Alec Drew - The Business Expert
Feb 23, 20212 min read


Networking - a lost art and missed opportunity
Business is a simple concept until you let humans near it and you do not have to look past networking to see what I mean. Networking is a...

Alec Drew - The Business Expert
Feb 7, 20215 min read


Why aren't we getting our full price? Part 2 products
I wrote last week about the challenges professional services companies have in getting their true worth in fees and suggested some...

Alec Drew - The Business Expert
Feb 3, 20214 min read


Why aren't we getting our full fees?
This is a question that comes up on a regular basis usually relating to professional services but sometimes in relation to supplying...

Alec Drew - The Business Expert
Jan 26, 20215 min read


Will you continue to go it alone?
One of the most common things I come across is SME business owners at the coalface, under continuous pressure resulting in stress, poor...

Alec Drew - The Business Expert
Jan 18, 20214 min read


7 practical tips to make internal meetings more productive
We have all attended them, the meeting that rambles on with no clear focus or outcomes, where petty squabbles and side issues suck the...

Alec Drew - The Business Expert
Jan 7, 20212 min read


Are you ready for 2021 or will it be another 2020?
I am not a fan of waiting for things to go back to the normality as you knew it, because I believe that the world of business has moved...

Alec Drew - The Business Expert
Jan 4, 20213 min read


Strategic Planning - Part 5 - Touch Points
We all have a need to get our message out to our various audiences and there are so many channels to use, so how consistent is your...

Alec Drew - The Business Expert
Dec 15, 20202 min read


Strategic Planning - Part 4 - SWOT Analysis
This is a great time of the year for reflection and planning for next year. An important component is a SWOT Analysis (Strengths,...

Alec Drew - The Business Expert
Dec 7, 20202 min read


Simple tips around managing the company purse strings.
I want to talk about what happens after you get over the excitement of getting that first order. Yes you knocked it out of the park and...

Alec Drew - The Business Expert
Dec 2, 20206 min read


Questions worth asking.......ourselves
Here is a document that has almost sixty questions which I believe are worth answering about yourself and your business. My suggestion is...

Alec Drew - The Business Expert
Nov 24, 20201 min read


Proposals that secure new business
What is the first thing everybody does when they get a proposal, they go to the last page to see what the price is. Why is the price on...

Alec Drew - The Business Expert
Nov 17, 20204 min read


Strategic Planning - Part 3 - clients
Are you standing still or are your products and services adapting to reflect the changing needs of your customers/clients. We are all...

Alec Drew - The Business Expert
Nov 10, 20203 min read


Strategic Planning - Part 2 - suppliers
As a part of an overview of Strategic Planning I have decided to break down various components of businesses into bite size chunks and...

Alec Drew - The Business Expert
Nov 2, 20204 min read


Strategic Planning - Part 1 - systems
I wrote an article last week about the importance of creating/updating your Strategic Plan for 2021 and the opportunity that is available...

Alec Drew - The Business Expert
Oct 28, 20203 min read


Could 2021 be as chaotic as 2020 for you?
2020 was an unprecedented challenge and a reminder of how vulnerable our organisations can be. Working with business owners we discovered...

Alec Drew - The Business Expert
Oct 19, 20203 min read


I don't know what we do....
If you were asked the following question, what would be your response? 'What do you do’ or what area of business are you in or something...

Alec Drew - The Business Expert
Oct 13, 20203 min read
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