Section 2: Getting advice booster tips.

1. What type of help is available?

2. Know when to look for help.
3. Embrace technology and save money.
4. You might be eligible for a grant.

Section 3: Financial booster tips.

5. Don’t be undercapitalized have enough money from the

start.
6. Budgets and planning welcome to reality (plan for the
worst, not the best)
7. Financing it pays to shop around.
8. Keep your personal and business records separate
9. Find and use a good accountant.
10. What’s the difference between an accountant and a
financial planner?
11. What to do if you get into financial trouble.
12. The real cost of expanding can you afford it?
13. Beware of giving credit.
14. Chasing bad debts—is it worth it?
15. Keep good records from the start.
16. Keeping costs down without losing customers.
17. How to know what to charge.
18. Don’t invest your superannuation in a business
Venture.
19. Beware the third-year boom and fourth-year bust.
Section 4: Business relationship booster tips.
20. Partnership pitfalls how to avoid them.
21. Build a relationship with your suppliers.
22. Build a relationship with your landlord.
23. Build a relationship with your professional Advisers.
24. Build a relationship with people in your industry.
25. Find a balance between work and home.
26. Use mediation to solve conflict.
27. Accept that others may not share your enthusiasm.

Section 5: Staff booster tips.

28. Put the job description in writing.

29. Always check references.
30. A trial period protects both you and the new
Employee.
31. Train your staff (and yourself ) properly.
32. Lead by example and your team will follow.
33. Communicate effectively with your staff.
34. Conduct performance reviews.
35. Be conscious of security issues protect your business
36. Dismiss staff who don’t work out.
37. Balance your staff numbers.
Section 6: Customer service booster tips.

38. Build a relationship with your customers.

39. Learn to say ‘no’.
40. Use simple market research to keep on track.
41. Continually ask your customers if they are happy.
42. Deliver what you promise—if you can’t do this, get
out of the game.
43. Be honest and upright in all your dealings.
44. The right and wrong way to handle a complaint.
45. Treat your customers with the respect that they
deserve.
46. Learn to recognise when you need a break from your
customers.

Section 7: Advertising and marketing booster tips.

47. Develop your own marketing philosophy what type of

business are you?
48. Do a course or read a marketing book.
49. Take small steps to market your business.
50. Start with looking the part develop a strong corporate
image.
51. Don’t be pressured into buying advertising.
52. Market your business to a simple plan.
53. Don’t lose touch with your customers.
54. Don’t stop marketing because business is Booming.
55. If you haven’t got the time to market your business,
find someone who has.
56. Talk to other people in business.
57. Find a business that you admire.

Section 8: Internet booster tips.

58. Be realistic about the Internet.

59. A lousy website makes your business look lousy.
60. Make sure that you market your website.
61. The number one reason that businesses fail on the
Internet.
62. Budget for the Internet to be an ongoing expense.
63. Beware of spam.

Section 9: Insurance booster tips.

64. What type of insurance should you have?

65. How much insurance should you have?
66. Always read the fine print.
67. Make sure that you meet your requirements as per the
policy schedule.
68. Using an insurance broker.
69. Don’t just sign the renewal policy always compare
products and prices.
70. Prevention is better than cure.
Section 10: Legal booster tips.

71. When to use a lawyer.

72. Choosing a lawyer.
73. Keeping legal costs down.
74. Make sure that everything is up-front.
75. Get a second opinion.
76. Even lawyers make mistakes take control and ask
questions.
77. The real cost of taking someone to court is it worth it?
78. Make sure that everything is in writing.

Section 11: Personal booster tips.

79. Start your business feeling refreshed and healthy.

80. Don’t give up your hobbies when you start your
business.
81. Try to separate work from home.
82. Maintaining your enthusiasm.
83. Learn to laugh and lighten up.
84. Learn to handle stress.
85. Listen to your instincts they are normally right.
86. Take regular holidays, even though there is never a
good time.
87. Develop your negotiating skills.
88. Be supportive of the community where you make your
living.
89. Use photographs to record your progress.
90. Know when to call it a day.
91. Break the habit of doing things the way they’ve
always been done.
92. Don’t be afraid to make changes (name, location, etc.)
93. Keep copies of important documents.

Section 12: Planning for the future booster tips.

94. Know exactly where you are going.

95. Know exactly how you are going to get there.
96. Stay aware of, and up-to-date with, what is happening
in your industry.
97. Competition you need to be better than the rest.
98. Always have a plan for when things go wrong.
99. Be aware of your business’s peaks and troughs.
100. Don’t just look at your business in terms of facts and
figures.
101. Set your business up so that someone will want to
buy it.

Bonus section 20 more booster tips.

102. Don’t be afraid to charge what you’re worth.

103. Monopolies the ultimate competition.
104. Learn to delegate.
105. Become a spokesperson.
106. Try to win an award for your business.
107. Don’t let a bad experience leave you feeling jaded.
108. Don’t lose a good customer over a few cents.
109. Enjoy the journey.
110. Constantly strive to boost your business.
111. Surround yourself with successful people.
112. Get to know your bank manager.
113. Make your business environmentally friendly.
114. Make your business a good place to work.
115. Learn to manage your time.
116. Don’t be afraid to be unconventional.
117. Read as much as you can.
118. Persevere, persevere, persevere.
119. Be open to ideas suggestions and Recommendations.
120. Spend a few hours each week surfing the Internet.
121.Compile your own operations manual.