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You are here: Home » Finance Finance Finance Finance = money = cash = profit. End of. You can’t run a business and not understand how these four pieces fit together. This feed offers common sense articles, workbooks, worksheets and videos that focus on how you can get more money out of your business. Robert Recommends: 1. Workbook 105: Kick-Start Your Numbers 2. Financial Weekly Checklist 3. 10 Things To Do In The Next 10 Days 4. How To Run A Brilliant PSF 5. Built To Sell The finance and pricing chapters in 'Kick-Start Your Business' By Robert Craven are invaluable as a grounding in the mechanics of how finance works in a business. You can buy the book here. Full Members (£20+VAT per month) have access to everything in this feed plus additional benefits.  Available To Lite Members and Full Members Warren Buffet: The World's Greatest Money Maker Documentary on the 'Oracle Of Omaha'. (60 mins) Video How Growing Businesses Blow Themselves Apart The dangers of not being prepared for business growth. Article New Book: Business Gurus The new book about the top gurus that Robert contributed to. Article The UK's Best Accountancy Practices by Steve Pipe A free chapter from Steve Pipe's new book. Free Chapter Sticky Marketing Club with Robert Craven Robert and Grant Leboff talk about Bright Marketing (30 mins) Video Grow Your Service Firm By Robert Craven A pre-release sample chapter from the new book. Free Chapter Financial Weekly Checklist A simple checklist to help keep an eye on your finances. Checklist 10 Things To Do In The Next 10 Days The Robert Craven call to action. Article Content below is only available to Full Members Workbook 103: Where Do You Want To Go? (Strategy) Helps you to link essential finances to your strategy. Workbook Workbook 105: Kick-Start Your Numbers An in-depth guide to understanding business finances. Workbook Workbook 110: The Crunch Questions Includes 15 important financial questions. Workbook The FiMO and RECoIL Worksheets Analysing business performance and growth potential. Worksheet James Dyson On Innovation Inventor/Entrepreneur offers his insights. (30 mins) Video Bog Roll and Revenues Robert Craven looks at a company revolutionising their industry. Article The State Of The IPO Today Seminar on why IPOs are becoming popular again. (50 Mins) Video Five Rules For Pricing Excellence Rules on how to stimulate sales with pricing strategies. eBook The Balanced Business Scorecard Putting growth at the centre of the business. Worksheet Malcolm Gladwell On Leadership And innovation Using great stories to give good advice. (2 x 60 mins) Video Guy Kawasaki - 12 Lessons Steve Jobs Taught Me Things you can learn from the Apple founder. (60 mins) Video An Introduction To Email Marketing by HubSpot How to set up and operate different email campaigns. eBook Small Business - A Ripe Market For Plundering Robert on big companies' attitudes to small business clients. Article Rory Sutherland @ Wired UK Small changes to products can make the difference. (30 mins) Video Strategy For Personal Success by Rich Horwath To help you achieve your personal goals in life. eBook Free - The Future Of A Radical Price by Chris Anderson Creating a free product or service to increase sales. Audiobook Robert Craven @ Warwick Business School Part 3 Summary and actions you need to take. (35 mins) Video A Guide To Securing Business Funding Explains the different methods of securing funding. eBook The Best Of 2011 The the top content of last year's Business Club. Article George Montgomery Interviews Robert Craven Robert's most important piece of business advice. Audio Robert Craven's Best Blogs of 2011 The top blogs of last year. Article Revolutionary Marketing Technique Robert on getting more conversions from your newsletter subscribers. Article Chris Anderson: Atoms Are The News Bits How to benefit from new industrial age that is dawning. (30 mins) Video Reinventing The Wheel: Creating Lifetime Customers Great customer service will bring all customers back. eBook Dan Pink's TED Talk: The Surprising Science Of Motivation How to best motivate employees for results. (17mins) Video Why Do Some Firms Grow Nine Times Faster Than Others? Explanation why the better companies are better. Article Strategy And The Fat Smoker by David Maister Make the beneficial changes now. eBook How Not To Grow Your Business - A Cautionary Tale The dangers of over-exagerrated predictions in growth. Article The First Mastermind Robert Craven on his first experience of a mastermind group at 21. Article What To Say To The Bank Manager Make your bank manager understand and like your business. Article Are We Short-Changing Our Customers? Business consultancy value: the good, the bad and the ugly. Article What Is The Most Important Thing In Business? Robert Craven gives 5 important tips to keep on top of finances. Article 'The 3-Minute Business Review' by Rasheed Ogunlaru A quick healthcheck for your business. Checklist The "Secrets of Success" - My Foot Robert Craven on why a Mastermind Group is so effective. Article 'Real-Time' by David Meerman Scott Doing your marketing and PR in real-time. Book/Video 10 Things To Do In The Next 10 Days Robert goes through the ten steps and calls you to action. Webinar 'Killing Giants' by Stephen Denny Interview on the subject of beating the big companies. Audio Making Banks And Bankers Better: Robert Craven 20 minute interview. Audio Microfinance A revolutionary method of banking and investment. (20 mins) Multimedia How To Create Sustainable Profitability For Your Business: The Robert Craven Manifesto. Article Built To Sell A look at John Warrillow's new book. Book 2 Great Little eBooks: Inbound Marketing and LinkedIn The financial benefits of using inbound marketing. Book The Rise Of The Amateur Professional: Cut development costs by utilising your customers. Video I Am Furious. Really Furious Robert gets angry at the businesses that are failing. Article A Game Of 20 Questions Self Assessment: 20 tough questions to ask about your business.    Checklist Freemium: The 21st Century's First Business Model Chris Anderson on this new way to run a business. (20 mins) Video Just Manic Enough: Seeking Perfect Entrepreneurs Finding the right person to invest in. (20 min video) Case Study Top Three Ideas To Grow Your Business A great video from Robert on sales and profit growth. (5 mins) Video An Out-Of-Touch Board Can Spell Disaster For A Growing Business Robert on what the board can do to stimulate business growth. Article Welcome To The Valley Of Death Robert talks about how it can be profitable staying small. Article You Get The Business You Deserve Robert gives three great ways to sort out operations in your company. Article Why The Future Of Business Is Sharing How sharing across a customer base reduces costs. (12 mins) Video Gary Vaynerchuk - How Business Must Adapt To Social Media The short version of the above. (8 mins) Video How Raving Fans Create Profit Robert on why you should make your customers love you. Article  2010 How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton Christensen A reminder to not just pursue financial rewards in life. Article 'The Start-Up Essays' The key financial aspects of start-ups is covered here. Book Acres Of Diamonds by Russell Conwell It is often easier to make money here rather than try elsewhere. Book Mind The Gap Robert offers you the long-term fix for your business. Article Shrinking Your Business Can Bring More Profit And Happiness A case study on shrinking a business to make more profit Case Study The Dragons Giving You Their Top Tips Theo Paphitis and co.'s advice to business owners. (15 mins) Video Calculating Customer Value - A Guide To Relationship Marketing Checklist to find out the value of each of your customers. Checklist Watching Sales Incease By 150% In An Accounting Firm A simple plan to increase accountancy profits. Case Study What Entrepreneurs Want From Their Accountant What an entrepreneur needs from their financial advisor. Article Three Free Chapters From 'Kick-Start Your Business' A focus on operational strategy from Robert's book. Book How To Break Through The Magic Million Barrier How to take your small business or start-up to the next level. Article Tom Herbert - Hobbs House Bakery Tom discusses how The Directors' Centre helped his business. Case Study Great Ways To Grow: The Three Plus One Tool Four levers that impact profit and growth in your business. Checklist How To Run A Brilliant PSF Make your PSF brilliant. Article Beating The Credit Crunch Robert's webinar on surviving the recession. (20 mins) Webinar How Good Is Your Business? A healthcheck on how well your business is performing. Worksheet How To Be A Winner (Or A Loser) In A Recession Examples of how businesses changed so they could succeed. Case Study Why Should People Bother To Buy From You? Robert asks you the important question relating to sales. (2 mins) Video Can We Rescue A Drowning Estate Agent? How to turn around a business that is failing financially.  Article             Recent articles   How Just 3% Can Double Your Profits May 16, 2012   The FiMO and RECoIL Worksheets Apr 30, 2012 The FiMO (Finance, Marketing and Operations) and RECoIL (Resources, Experience, Controls and systems, Innovation and ideas and Leadership) worksheets will help you analyse the way your business is performing and look at how prepared the business is to grow. The worksheets are taken from Workbook 101 of The Directors' Centre coaching workbooks.   How Growing Businesses Blow Themselves Apart Apr 30, 2012   Warren Buffett: The World's Greatest Money Maker Apr 30, 2012 Warren Buffett is one of the richest men in the world, having made his money making shrewd long term investments into many thousand's of companies over the last 50 years. This is an hour-long BBC documentary where Evan Davis (Dragon's Den presenter) interviews and Warren and looks into why his investments are so successful.   The State Of The IPO Today Apr 12, 2012 Frank Quattrone, founder and CEO of Qatalyst Partners, talks about how the IPO has changed over the last 40 years. He deliver a statistic packed talk full of infomation about how the IPO has changed and what influences the growth of the technology industry.   Five Rules For Pricing Excellence Apr 12, 2012 In this short guide, Patrick Lefler talks about how changes to the prices of products can dramatically influence their sales and the profits gained from them. He offers 5 rules about pricing to help guide you in using pricing to positively affect the sale of products.   Business Gurus - A New Book From Robert Craven and Friends Mar 30, 2012 This is a great business theories referrence book. It profiles 28 of the leading business minds old and new, their theories, why they work and how they have helped specific businesses. Each Business Guru profile is written by leading British business minds.   The Balanced Business Scorecard Mar 30, 2012 This mini-workbook taken from The Directors' Centre's Workbook 105: Kick-Start Your Numbers. It is an excellent 14-page guide followed by an exercise that will help put you business strategy at the centre of what you company does. This will help make everybody's role in the company work towards the company goals and ensure everyone is pulling in the right direction.   An Introduction To Email Marketing by HubSpot Mar 30, 2012 This is a great eBook by HubSpot that guides you through the process of email marketing, the terminology and the different methods many businesses use to increase their click through rate and sales through this marketing method. Great for people starting out with email marketing.   Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson Mar 30, 2012 Rework is an eBook by Jason fried and David Heinermeier Hansson all about being ambitous and ignoring the barriers that lead to inaction. This is a great little eBook that will help you out if you have a great idea and you just need a bit or alot of encouragement to get you started or take action.   more articles >>