The best leaders treat decision-making as a discipline and design systems, habits and trust structures that protect judgment when pressure is at its highest
#agency#growth#decisions
Growth isn’t only about adding more activity, it can be equally valuable to strip away
Identify habits, offerings, processes, or relationships that no longer serve your goal
Stopping the wrong things is often the fastest way to accelerate the right ones
#agency#growth#goals
A business plan doesn’t have to be complicated
It just needs to answer a few simple, but uncomfortable, questions
It is not about predicting the future
It’s about knowing where you’re starting from, where you’re aiming and how today’s decisions connect to tomorrow’s outcomes
Many founders rely on basic tools they only update occasionally and financials are reviewed quarterly, if at all
Then you are flying blind
You don’t know your burn rate, your customer lifetime value is an estimate at best and your customer acquisition cost is unclear
#agency
Hopefully you have already submitted your new Companies House Director Identification
3 directors have been fined after failing to comply with identity verification requirements in the first recorded court action
#agency#director#compliance
"No one expects to be able to see into the future, but you can manage the near term effectively with the right tools in place"
Will Jarvis - Head of Data Collections MAP
As many of your staff will have taken holiday this Summer, are you sure your holiday pay is correctly recorded?
And will you maintain records for 6 years?
To listen: https://t.co/F0UJHnOqiJ
To watch: https://t.co/TBcyLzl8ZD
#agency#podcast
Despite inflationary pressures and the recent increase made by the US Federal Reserve, the Bank of England has today held interest rates at 3.75%
#agency#interest#finance
Selecting the right members for your team is half the battle won
You need to hand-pick people — not just based on skill, but also on alignment
#agency#values#alignment
In August clients took on new services, enabling us to provide 13 weeks of business training to former loggers in Borneo
Just by doing the everyday of filing client accounts we were able to provide 20 months worth of meals to nursery children in Ethiopia
@B1G1#giving#agency
As your business grows, your team has to grow with it
In the early stages, a lot can happen through trust, instinct and people being willing to get stuck in
But over time, that is not enough on its own
#agency#scale#team
Good people need clear direction, context and suppor
Growth often creates an interesting challenge.
The decisions, processes and ways of working that helped build a successful business at the start are not always the same ones that help you scale it
The question is what to change, when and how?
#agency#scale#change
"The better quality of the data in terms of collecting and coding it correctly, the better the reporting will be down the line"
Paul Barnes
Financial Confidence For Digital Agencies
Entrepreneurship is often presented as a formula: Raise capital, scale fast, follow best practices, repeat what worked for others
But in reality, the most sustainable success rarely comes from copying a model; it comes from building your own
#agency#value#unique
Charlotte Geesin in The MAP Room
Are you at risk from the upcoming changes to Employment Law?
To listen: https://t.co/F0UJHnOqiJ
To watch: https://t.co/TBcyLzl8ZD
#podcast
Did you know that VAT is treated differently if you trade in secondary-market retail goods such as trading cards?
Most owners don’t realise that if normal accounting rules are applied to pre-owned goods, then this can severely impact profitability
Blog: https://t.co/Dc21HESr2h