Business Processes Simplified Podcast

Today’s GuestPip Meecham As the founder of ProjectBox, Pip is excited to lead a company that uses innovative systems to achieve big goals and limitless dreams. She is a systems consultant who is fuelled with ambition, and is on a dedicated mission to bring a systemised approach to business operations while reducing costs, improving efficiencies, and achieving business goals in less time than one can say ‘coffee fix’. Think more time, more money, more freedom. ProjectBox takes a pinch of adaptability, adds touches of systematic excellence, and mixes this with the largest amount of passion and pride to bring a more cohesive approach to everyday life. Providing three accessible options for clients, ProjectBox shows how to systemise business to create consistency, save time, and adequately meet set business goals. It’s what Pip does. And, it’s what she loves. Website: projectbox.com.au Master Client Onboarding & Offboarding Step 1: Map your current system processes. Step 2: Group the tasks. Step 3: Consolidate in your project management platform. Step 4: Create your process template. Step 5: Create your process documentation. Step 6: Review and encourage process improvements.Support the show: https://www.systemhub.com/podcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today’s GuestKerry Boulton Kerry Boulton, CEO and Founder of The Exit Strategy Group and NEXUS Business Coaching, is Australia’s most respected exit strategy advisor. With over 20 years in business as an entrepreneur, transformative coach and consultant, sought-after speaker and talented facilitator, Kerry wrote The Uncensored TRUTH About Exit Strategies to help as many business owners as she can to monetise the wealth that’s lying in their businesses. The Uncensored TRUTH About Exit Strategies details how to build a strong and successful exit plan, which is an absolute must if you want to get full value from any sale. Kerry exposes and debunks many myths and gives you practical advice. She walks you through what most people don’t know – or refuse to believe – about the process of planning their exit. Kerry believes exit planning is a process, not a destination. She helps you overcome challenges you’re likely to face as a business owner and most importantly, the steps to ensure you find financial freedom and do not become just another statistic. Website: theexitstrategygroup.com.au Sell Your Business For Top Dollar Stage 1 – Evaluate Step 1: Run the business through several benchmarking tests. Step 2: The results are compared to the best practices.  Stage 2 – Explore Step 1: Brainstorm and explore possible business acquirers. Step 2: Explore the owner’s personal and financial goals.  Stage 3 – Innovate Step 1: Patch up the business gaps that were discovered. Step 2: Perform mock due diligence.  Stage 4 – TransitionSupport the show: https://www.systemhub.com/podcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today’s GuestScott Gellatly Scott, Founder of Scale My Empire, is changing the way professional services founders and executive teams think about sustainable growth and scalability. His mission is to help double the rate of small businesses that successfully transition into the mid-market by leveraging the ‘great multiplier’: Systems and Technology Platforms. Starting his journey with a small digital agency, he’s experienced firsthand the struggles of growing a business. After working with hundreds of services businesses in marketing, consulting, engineering and IT, he had the ‘aha’ moment that accelerated his own growth and that of his clients. This ‘aha’ moment inspired Scott to create a system for businesses to maintain profitability while scaling–founding Scale My Empire in the process. ​Scott has developed a simple, intuitive framework for systemising a services business by aligning your people, processes and tech platforms to deliver an awesome customer experience, profitable projects and a happy, optimised team. Website: scalemyempire.com Build Your Business Dashboard Step 1: Know what to measure and know why you should be measuring it. Step 2: Set up your account in Google Data Studio.Support the show: https://www.systemhub.com/podcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today’s Guest Phil Coombs Philip Coombs is an accredited Mindshop advisor, author and guest speaker who works predominately with small and medium-sized business owners and leaders to assist them to improve profit growth and develop the people within their business. Philip Coombs has over 30 years of experience in business ownership, management and director and board positions, across 15 companies and not for profit organisations. Philip appreciates how difficult it is to succeed in business and understands the complexities of being a business owner. With his wealth of experience, Philip has learnt what to do and even more importantly what not to do, as well as the secrets to long term sustainable profit growth in business. After an impressive 25 years at the helm of A.G. Coombs, Philip sold his business in late 2012, with a turnover in excess of $200M and a reputation as being one of, if not the best, in the business. Philip, now the owner of ProfitHQ (formerly Simply Business Australia), works exclusively with businesses that are not reaching their full potential. Through The YOU! Factor, Philip is able to target the areas of operating a business – both physical and mental – that will significantly improve the profit and performance of any business.Never setting out to be a professional coach, Philip was drafted by fellow business owners shortly after selling his business in 2012 to help them address their major challenges by teaching them the tools and techniques that bring success. Philip has a direct personal delivery style that has been described as “unique with an exceptional ability to get the message across and deliver results.” Philip is passionate about helping business owners make the effort, energies and risks of being in business worthwhile by growing profits and business value. On a personal level, Philip and his family are very passionate sailors. Phil loves to sail socially as well as compete which in the past has included some amazing adventures both in Australia and overseas. Phil is also very passionate about helping those less fortunate. He and his family regularly host fundraising events and over the past 10 years, we have raised in excess of $200K to improve the lives of underprivileged children. Website: profithq.com.au Build An Industry Dominating Culture Step 1: Inspiration. Step 2: Laying the foundations. Step 3: Dream it. Step 4: Design it. Step 5: Develop it. Step 6: Defend it.Support the show: https://www.systemhub.com/podcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today’s GuestMeryl Johnston Meryl is a Chartered Accountant who worked in commercial accounting roles and as an auditor and lecturer before a friend and fellow entrepreneur playfully challenged her to redefine the future of bookkeeping. Seven days and a thousand dollars later, Bean Ninjas was born and has since gone from strength-to-strength.​You can follow Meryl on the Bean Ninjas podcast and blog where she shares her ideas about entrepreneurship, surfing and building a thriving global business that supports the freedom of its founders, staff and clients. Website: beanninjas.com Gain Business Financial Control Step 1: Implement a cloud-based accounting system. Step 2: Create your business bank accounts. Step 3: Have a look at your chart of accounts. Step 4: Establish your bookkeeping timetable.Support the show: https://www.systemhub.com/podcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today’s GuestDen Lennie Den is a former Video Producer and DOP who has worked with major brands to create launch films and other video content for the last 25 years. He’s worked with celebrities and sporting stars and has managed budgets ranging from several hundreds of thousands down to a few thousand dollars and everything in between. He now helps filmmakers to grow their businesses. His mission is to help committed filmmakers around the world who want to generate more business and develop a more commercial mindset, attract more clients and create more revenue by embracing a strategic approach to their marketing, sale process and business systems to allow them to have the life they desire for their family without working 80+hrs per week. Website: denlennie.com Automate Your Video Production Business Step 1: Create your organising chart. Step 2: Map your Critical Client Flow. Step 3: Add the details into your critical client flow. Step 4: Consolidate processes into your project management tool. Step 5: Keep learning.Support the show: https://www.systemhub.com/podcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today’s GuestNancy Bleeke The two words most used to describe Nancy Bleeke are driven and practical. Her first foray into entrepreneurship was at age nine when she and her brother bought old textbooks for five cents from their grade school and then proceeded to open a “summer school” in their basement for the neighbourhood kids. Sales is definitely part of Nancy’s genetic make-up. She has spent years in the trenches as a sales professional, sales manager, a sales coach, and wrote the gold medal-winning book Conversations That Sell which has been declared a “must-read” for sales teams around the world. In 1998, Nancy left the comfort of a “regular” job and founded Sales Pro Insider Inc. – a company whose mission is to help other businesses grow sales, create raving fans for customers, and encourage employee engagement through customized training, consultations, assessments and tools that just plain work! Her Genuine® branded training modules support superior sales initiatives and help generate cohesive sales teams that succeed. Now that Nancy, and her husband, Jon, are “empty nesters”, they split their time between the warm spring and summers at their home in Wisconsin and relax near the water in sunny Florida in the wintertime. Website: salesproinsider.com Consistently Scale Your Sales Step 1: Start with the process. Step 2: Get to know your people. Step 3: Create your playbook.Support the show: https://www.systemhub.com/podcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today’s GuestBin Teo Bin Teo’s journey started in his early 20s where he sold tickets to meditation retreats. There he started to develop a deep fascination for buyer’s psychology and market positioning. As a marketing consultant, he has helped industry experts launch books that rank #1 on Amazon, companies generate 6 figures of additional revenue and received numerous awards (including the AFR 100 Fast Starters). Through executing and learning from hundreds of growth experiments, he discovered his passion for optimising B2B sales processes. Today he helps B2B sales teams speed up their sales cycles through strategically crafting compelling customer stories and sales enablement assets. Build Compelling Case Studies Step 1: Create your strategy. Step 2: Get the client buy-in. Step 3: Do interviews. Step 4: Create a persuasive customer story.Support the show: https://www.systemhub.com/podcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Guest’s Background: Nik Thakorlal develops technologies to automate persuasion. Website: leadshook.com System Steps: Step 1: Identify your lead magnet. Step 2: Extract the nuggets. Step 3: Turn the nuggets into answers. Step 4: Create the question and fake answers. Step 5: Create a decision tree.Support the show: https://www.systemhub.com/podcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Guest’s Background: Michael is a productivity guy – he’s the founder and CEO of Nozbe – a project management and collaboration tool for busy professionals and their teams. Nozbe is a web-based tool with apps for all the major platforms. Michael is also a speaker, author of a few best-selling books, a podcaster and a blogger. He is happily married to his wife Ewelina and they have three daughters. Michael is known for his unorthodox way of running Nozbe – our company doesn’t have any physical office (#NoOffice) and we dedicate Fridays to weekly reviews and personal development (#TGIF). Website: nozbe.com System Steps: Step 1: Deep Work. Step 2: The feedback loop. Step 3: Real-time chat. Step 4: One-on-one conversation. Step 5: Meetings.Support the show: https://www.systemhub.com/podcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.