Brisbane Flood – A New Beginning?

Many business owners were concerned throughout the GFC if they could continue their businesses. Now, after the recent Queensland and Victorian floods, some may be so overwhelmed that they feel like throwing in the towel.

This blog, together with our other Vantage flood recovery blogs aims to help your business get back on its feet. Or as Austin Powers would put it – getting you back your “Mojo Baby!”

3 Steps to Capital Raising

The first thing any business needs to do when capital raising is to carefully select the right advisor, as I’ve explained in a previous post. (Choose Your Advisor Carefully) The second thing is to put good management in place to look after the business, as the capital-raising process can take up to six months and [...]

Change Management For Small Business – Turnaround Isn’t Rocket Science

Performance improvement is the same in principal for all business – it’s just less complicated for SMEs. Selling a loss-making business to a competitor, changing the channel to market, acquiring a competitor or moving into a foreign market are all types of strategic decisions that large business has to make. Performance improvement in the SME [...]

Capital Raising For Small Business –Choose Your Advisor Carefully

However raising capital is a difficult exercise for young and entrepreneurial businesses. In essence you are asking investors to give you their cash and speculate that you are the next Henry T. Ford who’s just about to commercialise the automobile (such high expectations are not beyond some investors, such is the premium they place on their capital).

What Con The Fruiterer Can Teach Your Business About Cash Flow

All accounting students learn about cash flow but unless you have lived it, breathed it and dreamt about it, you just don’t understand it……..