It ‘s 8am Monday morning and you receive a call from building management notifying you that a contractor has accidently cut a wrong cable and internet and telephony in your office are offline and potentially will be for days. What do you do?

Email is a fantastic tool for small business – it has many benefits over other traditional communication channels. However, it has its issues, too, and can stress us out big time! We are now exposed to more information in one day than someone in the middle ages was exposed to in their whole lifetime. And a lot of that is email!

I teach this method in my workshops and with my 1:1 clients in their offices and they love it. Once you get the hang of it you won’t turn back!

How do you react when business goes quiet? Many businesses, at some time or other, experience quieter times. This could be due to the seasonal nature of a business, but more often than not, it’ll be due to the success or failure of putting goals and strategies in place to ensure a steady flow of business.

Here are 10 things you can do when business goes quiet:

Whether you work in retail, hospitality, finance or engineering you’ve probably heard of public liability. In fact, most people probably wouldn’t even dare think of trading unless they had a public liability insurance policy in place.

Australians are getting fatter and unhealthier; if you’re a small business owner, the implications of this could be bad news. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare reports that 16% of men and 17% of women are now classified as obese, while a further 42% of men and 25% of women are classified as overweight. The results of this for the workplace are reduced productivity, more time lost to sick leave, and increased health and safety issues.