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At Business Abundance, we love dealing with business owners to help them achieve their goals, whatever they might be. This business-focused podcast will be delivering free content for business owners to help them solve problems and grow their business. It'll cover topics from marketing right through to finance and work/life balance. To sign up for podcast updates:
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Cost-Cutting Won’t Save Your Business
But most businesses don’t understand the difference between cutting costs and managing costs. One is smart, while the other is a slippery slope that can wreck your service, your culture, and your reputation without you even noticing until it’s too late.
Being good at your trade is not the same as being good at business
People go into business because they’re good at what they do, not because they’re trained to run a business. A tiler, landscaper, electrician, designer, or consultant doesn’t wake up one day wanting to manage accounting software, compliance, people, systems, and cash flow. They start because there’s demand for their work, and at some point, that demand turns into responsibility.
Why Control Feels Safer Than Stepping Away
When processes are clear, roles are defined, and expectations are shared, responsibility spreads. The business becomes less fragile, not more. And stepping away stops feeling like abandonment and starts feeling like freedom.
Why Many Business Owners Have Bought Themselves a Job
Most people don’t start a business because they want to work longer hours with more risk and less certainty. They start because they want independence, flexibility, better income potential, or the chance to build something of their own. No one sets out with the goal of buying themselves a job.
Most Advice Doesn’t Work
Most people don’t consume advice to make decisions. Instead, they want to feel productive, inspired or reassured. Unfortunately, it's become entertainment. You can watch, read and nod along and because there is always more advice, nothing ever feels urgent enough to act on it. Most advice doesn’t fail because it’s wrong. It fails because it’s absorbed without context, without diagnosis, and without a decision attached to it.
How Smarter Systems Create a More Efficient Business
If your business is still weighed down by paperwork or disconnected tools, it might be time for a smarter setup.
Stop Throwing Money at Ads
Stop wasting money on marketing that doesn’t convert. Learn how to focus on spend vs return, invest wisely, and build a strategy that drives real customers. Not just clicks.
Excuses from Employees – Boundaries and Accountability
Excuses are rarely about the actual problem; they’re about protecting ourselves from discomfort. When something goes wrong, our brains look for the quickest way to preserve our self-image to protect the story we tell ourselves that we’re competent, capable and in control.
The Keeper Test – Keeping Good Employees
The Keeper Test is a brutally simple idea made famous by Netflix’s culture deck:
“If one of your employees can to you tomorrow and told you they were leaving for a similar job at another company, would you fight to keep them?”
If your gust reaction is yes, they’re a keeper. If your honest reaction is no, it’s time to start planning their exit.
Treating Your Employees as Adults
The trap many owners fall into is assuming more training will fix every performance gap. But often, the problem isn’t that people don’t know what to do – it’s that they’re not taking responsibility for doing it. That’s why coaching is important.
Stop Being Your Busiest Employee: How to Work On Your Business, Not Just In It
Are you the busiest person in your business?
If your to-do list is overflowing and your time is always stretched thin, it's time for a change. In this blog, we break down the practical steps you can take to stop doing everything and start focusing on the work that actually grows your business. From ditching low-value tasks to building trust in your team, learn how to free up your time — and finally lead like the owner.
Can you Change Your Business Model?
Do you offer a great product or service? Do you market it professionally? Do you focus on customer service? YES?
So does everyone else…
And while that’s not wrong — it’s also not remarkable. Everyone is doing it. So how do you truly stand out?
Let’s break down how Who Gives a Crap did it — and what you can learn to apply in your own business.
How Small Business Owners Can Reduce Stress
Long hours, a lot of responsibility and trying to achieve the infamous work-life balance is stressful. Sometimes it doesn’t feel achievable. It’s likely that this stress is impacting the success of your business. The 80/20 principle could be a saving grace for you. So here’s how you can use it…
How to Market on a Limited Budget
Marketing on a limited budget can feel overwhelming, but the key lies in understanding what truly drives results. Effective marketing is not about spending more but about reaching the right people with the right message at the right time.
How to Create a Business Plan for a Small Business
A business plan that sits on a shelf is a waste of time. It can feel like a chore… and it is if you do it wrong. But the value of a business plan isn’t in creating a perfect document or creating a flawless path forward, it’s worth creating because it sets the stage for intentional action. Here’s how…
The Pros and Cons of a Four-Day Work Week
The five-day workweek has long been the hallmark of routine. In recent times, this has been challenged. In response, businesses are taking on new ideas like the four-day workweek. See if this is an option to transform and benefit your business.
Cost Cutting - The Business Abundance Podcast Episode 6
Cost Cutting - Episode 6 - The Business Abundance Podcast
Change - The Business Abundance Podcast Episode 4
What happens if you're the one that doesn't change? - Episode 4 - The Business Abundance Podcast
Creating A Business That Runs Itself
Would you rather be in an office all day or have the freedom to do whatever you like, whenever you like?
The Secret To Making More Money
Whether your goal is to keep your business running, increase your take-home salary or grow your business, you need to increase revenues.