Colin Porter is the publisher of Dynamic Business and the founder and MD of credit reporting bureau, CreditorWatch. He has over 20 years experience as a business owner, specialising in general small/medium business issues, cashflow, credit management and online business. Follow CreditorWatch on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
Before all that good stuff comes along, it seems the list of things to do – and inevitable dilemmas associated with annual close downs and the like – gets longer and more complicated each year.
I’ve been fortunate enough to be my own boss for twenty years. Let me be the first to say that there isn’t a business owner in Australia, nay the world, who hasn’t fought in the battle of obtaining finance.
I naturally gravitate towards the strictly business topics for my blog, but this week there’s an issue on my mind which is a little more wide reaching.
Let’s skip the lip-service on how rewarding it is to own your own business – of course it is. Instead, let’s call it for what it is: a hard and relentless battle.
Unless your business is the final petrol station before the Nullarbor Plain, you’ve got competition. And regardless of how seamless you think your product range, service offering, and customer service to be – we’re all human, and you ARE making mistakes.