MATAX Blog
Apps Apps Apps - December 2020
Adding the right applications to your business can streamline operations, create efficient processes, and save you time and money. But where to start? There are 1,000’s of applications out there, many solving the same or similar issues.
Five Ways to Bring in More Cash for Your Business
Now is the perfect time to evaluate your financial position and come up with innovative ways to add revenue streams and generate cash. Here are five ways you might consider to improve your cash inflow.
Creating your business to-do list
When you’re an entrepreneur, your to-do list is often long and constantly growing longer. There is an overwhelming number of things you need to do, and it can feel like they’re all urgent. In such cases, it’s easy to push important tasks to the side and focus on less-vital activities, but that often means you miss deadlines, make mistakes, or always feel as though you’re trying to catch up.
How to grow your network without networking events
Networking can be a key way to keep your business growing. Regardless of your industry or business size, it is hard to ignore the benefits of forming professional networks for potential partnerships, expanding your client base, and scaling up.
A Guide to Business Recovery in a pandemic world
Although the short-term outlook varies depending on your industry sector, it is important for all business leaders to set up a strategy that will guide their way towards recovery. If you want some tips on how to hit the ground running after the crisis, this guide will outline the steps to get your business back on track.
Four Great Ways To Get More Leads for Your Business
It’s very rare these days that people just happen to find your business and become a client or customer with no work on your part. Your business has to grab people’s attention, turn curious visitors into leads, and then convert those leads into sales.
5 Tips to Improve the Conversion Rate on Your Site
If you want to increase sales on your eCommerce site, you should not only focus on traffic but also on your conversion rate. The higher your conversion rate, the more money you can make with the same number of visitors. Here are five tactics to help you increase your conversion rate.
Useful ways to benchmark your business
For many business owners, determining the success of a business comes down to how much profit the company makes. Of course, finances are an important measure of a company’s overall success. If you don’t bring in more than you spend you won’t be in business for long. Profit, however, isn’t the only important benchmark by which to measure your business.
Using Scarcity to Make More Sales during COVID-19
For an online business owner, scarcity is a valuable tool that can turn a failing product into a winner. It is best implemented in a subtle way that does not draw attention to itself, but the urge to purchase remains very potent.
How Small Businesses are Boosting Sales During COVID-19
In this article, we put a spotlight on the most creative and innovative ways that small businesses have adopted to increase sales during the pandemic and prosper in the new business environment.
Moving your business to Social Media because of COVID? Here's 9 Quick Tips!
With social media, you can connect with business associates quickly and creatively. But this communication mode is not without risk. A thoughtless post can offend customers and other business partners and damage relationships rather than build them.
How Your Business Can Thrive Even in a Recession
The pains caused by a recession can be excruciating, which is why most of us dread the thought of it. A recession can mean massive layoffs, jobs becoming harder to find, and wages frozen, which means consumers hunker down and spend less– often worsening the economic slowdown unknowingly.
Questions to ask as your small business recovers from COVID-19
As small business owners look to operations after COVID-19, there are some important business questions to ask. These questions will help you determine what adaptations you want to keep, whether your business model is working, and if there are additional changes you want to make to keep your company operational through future economic downturns.
Efficient business systems really pay off
Too many businesses fall over because the owner has not established efficient business systems. This typically happens because the business owner is so caught up in the day-to-day running of the business that the fundamentals of good business management get forgotten.
Changing your business model
Your current business model is the way your business earns money. A change in your business model can bring substantially more income – sometimes for less work and lower overhead costs.
How cash flow forecasts can help you
Managing cash flow is a vital part of running a successful business. Some business owners think managing cash flow simply means keeping track of how much money enters and leaves their business, but there’s actually more that goes into it.
Beyond COVID-19 – How to build value in your business
The key to building value in your business is to plan the process in a systematic way, whether you’re aiming to grow your business or groom it to get a better price from a buyer.
Battling Through COVID-19: Finance Tips for Business Survival
We’ve heard this before: the COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented global health and financial crisis that has caught many off guard. While the threats to human life are very real, the damage to the health of businesses is really just starting to show.
Prepare a business plan for COVID-19 recovery
You probably didn’t factor a global pandemic and national lockdown into your business plan! So now is definitely a good time to revisit your business plan for the next year.
How to ask the right sales questions
Sales is about addressing your customers’ needs and problems. By understanding the issues clients face, you can show them how your solution solves their problem.
Here are some tips for asking the right sales questions to better understand and help your customers.