September 2004

Contents

  • Unlock the Keys to Real Business Success
  • The Easiest Way to Increase Your Profit
  • Cash Flash 
  • Get Results from Networking
  • 5 Steps to Super Profits
  • Leverage: The Game of Business

GTA Event Calendar

5 Steps To Super Profits

Leverage: The Game of Business

Understanding Your Financials


Newsletter Archives


The Action Business Development Owners Report is for and about business owners.  It has one mission - to provide you with a wealth of knowledge, techniques and practical ideas to energize your business.  We believe that being in business should give you more of what you want out of life.  That's why we focus on a program called "Six Steps to Massive Results."  This program helps business owners dramatically increase their profits, create better teams and processes, while having more fun and MORE leisure time.

This Report is published by  Action Business Development Inc .  Action Business Development helps business owners get more of what they really want from their businesses. 

Sandy Kemp and Jim Gragtmans are the primary advisors associated with Action Business Development.  Sandy and Jim are both Action International certified business coaches. 

About Jim Gragtmans

About Sandy Kemp

Who Is Action International?

What Is An Action Business Coach?         

Mission Statement & Focus

Could You Benefit from Coaching?

7 Reasons a Mentor Gives You Competitive Advantage

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Do You Run Your Business or Does It Run You?
Unlock the Keys to Real Business Success

Clients and frequent readers of this newsletter will recognize, if you don't have a "profitable, commercial enterprise that runs without you" (the owner) then you don't really have a successful business!  Yes, you may have a lucrative profession or job, but to achieve real business success you must get your business to a stage where it runs without you - the owner. That way you are free to develop additional business interests and free to really enjoy all life has to offer.   

Last month, we discussed how to develop and write systems and procedures.  This month we will examine 4 Key Areas that impact your business as a whole and that will insure you are on the "fast track" to operating consistently and efficiently.  [FULL STORY]

This issue focuses on the Third Step - Developing Leverage by creating systems in your business. This issue of the Owners Report deals with the 3rd step of the Six Steps to Massive Results -- developing Leverage.  [FULL STORY]

To learn more about what a how to develop systems and proceedures see the August 2004  issue of the Owners Report.


The Simplest and Easiest Way to Increase Your Profit

Profit or the Bottom Line, is ultimately the best financial measure of your business's success. It is the thing that we are all seeking and the thing that we are always trying to increase.

After all, everything else that we do in our business, whether it is marketing, sales,  production or team building, they are all intended to increase profits in some way.

So, how do we get those profits up?

Well, there are a myriad of things that we can do. In every area of our business lies some opportunity to improve our profits. But the easiest and fastest way to bring up our profit is by ...  [FULL STORY]


Cash Flash!

Instant Cash Flow Tips

 

Profit and cash flow are not the same. A profitable business can go broke by not setting aside enough reserves to meet its commitments.  Here are 4 ways to supercharge your cash flow... [FULL STORY]


 
Ask the Coach
How Can I Get Better Networking Results?

Address questions about your business challenges to our coaches' panel.  Find solutions for growing and improving your business.  This month's question deal with getting better results from networking. [FULL STORY]
 

FREE  Profit  Building  Workshop

'5 Ways to Super Profits'

Don't Waste another Cent on Strategies that Don't Dramatically Improve Your Profits!

Learn '5 Ways' that DO work and how you can implement them in your business!

“What do you want from your business?”

Want a significant improvement in your sales?  Want to increase your after-tax profits?  Want to boost your personal income?  Just want to reduce your stress levels … and your business’s reliance on you?  Then the“5 Ways to Super Profits” Workshop is just for you.

To find out more click here or Call Joanne at 905-943-4257.


A breakthrough in Business Education - Leverage: The Game of Business

Learn more in three hours than some business courses do in three days!

You're invited to play Brad Sugars' $295 Game of Business 'LEVERAGE'… for FREE

Come along and join local Business Coaches and a dozen other GTA Business Owners in playing a sensational new board game… LEVERAGE.

It's the brainchild of 33 year old Multimillionaire Businessman and Action International founder,  Brad Sugars. The more you play this game the more successful you'll become at running your own business and businesses.

It's the fastest and most powerful way there is to learn Action's Business secrets. You'll want to play it again and again. Leverage is 3 hours of fun and learning.

If you've heard of or played Robert Kiyosaki's game 'Cashflow' you'll love LEVERAGE.

LEVERAGE will show you how to work your way into super profits and at the same time show you how to create a business that works without you.

It's a break-through in business education and it'll have you racking up the profits in no time.

The principles you'll learn from this game will set you up for a lifetime of business success. It'll alter your mind as to what's truly possible. It's time you had the edge over your competition.

Monday September 27th
6:30 pm
Action International Office
7030 Woodbine Avenue, 4th Floor
Markham, ON

To reserve your place

Call Joanne
905-943-4257
or click here

Space is very limited, so call now to avoid missing out.


 

Isn't It About Time You Knew the Score for Your Business?

As a Business Owner:

  • Are you sometimes surprised by the size of your bank balance?
  • Are you ever surprised by your year end statement from your accountant?
  • Do you avoid dealing with your financials?
  • Do you find your accountant's statements of little value, or maybe even confusing?
  • Do you know what numbers are absolutley key for your business?
  • Do you know what you should be asking your bookkeeper or accountant?
  • Not even sure why you should care? After all you do have an accountant.

If you answered YES to one or more of these questions, then you could benefit from

Understanding Your Financials

A Workshop for Non-Financial Business Owners

 To find out more click here .