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What Pete had to say about his experience in The Opulence System™ One of the best parts of The Opulence System™ is the community we’ve built.  Every day, we connect and chat in our private Facebook group – The Inner Circle.  The Inner Circle is not one of those groups where nobody engages or interacts. […]

Your #1 goal as a business owner should be to make yourself redundant. Let me explain 🙂 When the business still needs you for every little thing, you essentially just have a JOB. Whether that job is CEO, General Manager, or whatever…  Or whether you wear 10 hats as a marketer, trainer, recruiter, and every […]

What Is Rapport? Why it is an essential part of your Sales Strategy Have you ever felt immediately comfortable with someone you just met? Sometimes you meet someone and can feel like you’ve been friends for years. You get good vibes from them. The conversation flows easily. You feel at ease and comfortable. You like […]

Firing underperforming staff is a part of doing business. Sometimes, you hire with the best intentions… but ultimately it’s just not a fit. For many business owners, firing staff is an upsetting experience. For both parties involved! At best, someone walks out with a sullen grudge. At worst, tears and tantrums. (I’ve actually seen this […]

How Are Your Decision Making Skills? Here’s Why They’re Important To Work On I believe we never have business problems… we have personal problems that are expressed through our business.  Let me explain. Business problems stem from poor decision making skills. If you look at any problem within your business right now, or a problem […]

Have you ever joined a program that promises a lively Facebook community… …but when you get in there it’s a wasteland?  (https://giphy.com/gifs/page-front-content-d8lUKXD00IXSw) Or worse, the feed is just a stream of ‘engagement’ posts from the group owner, desperately trying to get someone, anyone to comment and share? Or even worse again, it’s full of members […]

Common Mistakes Business Owners Make – Working IN Your Business Not ON Your Business Last year, I removed myself from about 90% of my business operations. After systemising my business and building a great team around me to follow those systems, it was time to step out and let others run it for me.  This […]

Rob’s Rural Contracting provides quality fencing to farmers and landholders in the Bega Valley.  He found that while the work was coming in, it was keeping him too busy to focus on the things his business needed to grow.  Paperwork was piling up, profits were stagnant, and Rob felt that although he was working hard… […]

6 Tips on Saving Money With Your Marketing Every business owner knows that marketing is important. After all, how else are you supposed to get the word out about your business, and grow your company? But for many business owners, marketing can become a black hole that just gobbles up money, and produces little results. […]

Have you ever delegated a task to a staff member… and they stuff it up? It can be frustrating, and all-too-easy to blame the staff member for mucking up. After all, you gave them detailed instructions, right? You know that saying – ‘the devil is in the detail’?  Well for some employees, that’s totally true.  […]