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How Your Accountant Could Be Sabotaging Your Business

How Your Accountant Could Be Sabotaging Your Business

When you think of your accountant, words like “reliable,” “advisor,” and “expert” may come to mind. After all, your accountant is ideally trained to assist you with managing your financial reporting, ensure you comply with tax regulations, lodging tax returns and to advise you on financial strategies and cash flow.

But possibly your accountant could be holding your business back?

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How to Ensure you Price for Profit | PROTRADE United Partner Article

How to Ensure you Price for Profit | PROTRADE United Partner Article

This article is designed to give you a brief and general overview of how to price your work profitably. I would like to emphasise that is a brief overview and that your individual business and situation will have to be considered. As your work projects become more complex it is vital that you invest time to understand your project costs together with your overhead expenses to ensure that you price profitably every time.
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Overtime: Curse or Creative Way to Generate More Profit?

Overtime: Curse or Creative Way to Generate More Profit?

Coming into the summer period in Australia & New Zealand, together with the ‘silly season’, can lead to a frantic energy in many areas. Attempting to ‘get it all done by Christmas’ means a potential for increased overtime in many businesses. So, is overtime a positive or negative for your business? Well, it depends!
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Create a Training Division to Keep Your Best People

Create a Training Division to Keep Your Best People

As you may have experienced over the past few years, there is a significant shortage of skilled workers in almost every industry. Your ability to hire and more importantly keep great people will become a necessary component for longevity in business, regardless of your trade.
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The Six Key Ingredients to Identify Your Dream Customer

The Six Key Ingredients to Identify Your Dream Customer

I'm going share with you the Six P’s that we use at PROTRADE United to help our
clients clarify the dream customer for their business. Read on to discover the Six P’s below, and match them against the customers that you'r working with to help you identify the best customers for your business moving forward.
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How to Deal Confidently with a Price Sensitive Customer

How to Deal Confidently with a Price Sensitive Customer

As many trade businesses are experiencing a shift in the purchasing demand for their services, together with media chatter around ‘rising costs of living’, a challenge being faced now is, how do I manage the price conscious customer, who may be out to shop around for a cheaper option?
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