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Most businesses that fail do not have to! This book shows you ways of improving the odds of success when a business appears to be failing.

It helps to understand common problems that arise in businesses and identify opportunities for making improvements.

This ebook provides tips to help you analyse and determine both what you are doing well and where improvements could be made. By considering your own strengths and weaknesses, and that of your business, you can seek to improve what you have to offer.

You have a great business- a great product and you have put everything into that you could possibly do. But you still aren’t making a profit. If you have done everything that you could possibly do and are at a loss and making a loss, read this ebook- it will give you real solutions to help you identify where you are going wrong in your business and where you could go RIGHT in your business.

CHAPTER 1 RECOGNISING PROBLEMS - WHERE DID THINGS GO WRONG?
How to recognise problems
Comparing your business to your competitors
Maintaining a balanced perspective
Recharge your batteries
Always run your business as if it is for sale
Checklist for identifying the problem

CHAPTER 2 CHANGING WITH THE TIMES
How do you do this?

CHAPTER 3 REVISE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Initial finance
Financial difficulties in business
How to borrow money and get the best deal
Business costing
Options for improving your financial position

CHAPTER 4 REVISE YOUR MARKETING
What do we mean by marketing?
Do you understand the basic principles of marketing?
Visibility and impact

CHAPTER 5 REVISE YOUR PRODUCT
Choosing a product range
Why is the product not selling?
Analysing the product
Customer feedback
Deciding to drop a product
Staff awareness of products

CHAPTER 6 REVISE AND ENGAGE YOUR STAFF
The individual as staff
Employ staff when needed
Employing permanent staff
Employ the workforce you need, not the workforce you want
Legal obligations and moral obligations when employing staff
Employing friends and family – for and against
Motivating staff
Avoiding stress in your staff and yourself

CHAPTER 7 THE HARD QUESTIONS – SELF-ANALYSIS AND DECISION MAKING
How do you make a properly considered decision?
Solving problems systematically
Business problem considerations