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You’re running a small family business. You’ve been operating it, successfully, for a few years now. In the space that you play in, you have a very select number of supplier relationships. You’ve deliberately chosen them for the products they offer, and the solutions they provide, to the customers you’re passionate about. You believe in your suppliers, to the point of being their advocates.
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I’ve let the garden go a bit over the summer. Being away prior to, and over the Christmas break, didn’t help. A return home with illness, coupled with what’s been a hotter summer than we’ve encountered in recent years, dampened my enthusiasm for getting out amongst it.
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What has struck me over the years of working with small and family business, is that most problems in business, are actually quite simple to resolve. It’s just that, for the most part, we overcomplicate things, to the point of overthinking, which leads to solutions, that are difficult or costly to implement, or hard to measure the impact of.
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In one of the first client meetings back this year, after the Christmas break, we were talking about transitions in business, and in life.
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What’s the most important thing in your small or family business? Something you can’t do without. An element of your business that, without it, the business is empty.
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Having recently returned from my 15th trip to the United States of America, and the first in 5 years, it was interesting what I observed, during my travels:
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On the final leg of our recent overseas trip, we chose to stay in a different part of Los Angeles to the past. We’ve chosen Manhattan Beach, south of Venice Beach, previously, as it’s a vibrant, safe and interesting part of LA, and a short hop from LAX.
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My wife and I have not long returned from a fabulous trip through the Caribbean, the Florida Keys and Los Angeles, in the lead up to, and over, the Christmas break.
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Happy New Year. May 2025 bring you and your family, good health, much happiness and great success.
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So, with a week to go before Christmas, it’s time to reflect on the year that was, what’s working in some businesses and what’s not working in others.