Author: Fiona Grant-Jones

As a Management Accountant, I have a proactive focus on the future. I enjoy working with business owners to improve performance through management accounting and forecasting techniques. My knowledge of Tax and Tax planning has supported me in offering a more complete service to our clients. My interests span from the ones that my mother approves of, such as needlecraft and papercraft to the ones she is not so keen on such as scuba diving and skiing!

26 April 2021

The Sustainable Business

Sustainability is a word that’s bandied around a lot, with talk of sustainable processes, sustainable fashion, sustainable food and sustainable lifestyles. A great deal of emphasis is put on sustainability for the planet, and rightfully so. At Grant Jones we also understand the importance of sustainable practices within the internal structure of a business.

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13 April 2021

An Attitude of Gratitude Goes a Long Way

Having an attitude of gratitude in every area of your life has been proven to be hugely beneficial. When we show we’re grateful for everything we have, the opportunities we’re given, the people we meet and the life we live, lo and behold we get more of the good stuff!

While thinking grateful thoughts is great, actually taking that next step and putting some action and expression behind your gratitude makes it even more powerful.

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29 March 2021

Manage Your Contacts in a Systematic Way

In the business world, you need to collect and manage a lot of information about your customers, prospects and referral sources. To do this effectively and efficiently it’s important to have a robust contact management system in place…

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15 March 2021

Referrals – The Best Way to Get New Customers

There’s no better way for any business to get new customers and build sales than by referrals. They are the lifeblood of a successful business. Not only are referrals the number one source of new business; they are the leading source of the best new business…

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2 March 2021

Building a Happy Team

Your business might provide the best product or service in the world, but if your team isn’t happy it will impact massively on the success of your business…

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15 February 2021

What’s Your Value Proposition?

In the business world it’s almost unheard of not to have any competitors, which is why it’s so important to know why and how you’re different from other businesses…

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1 February 2021

The 80/20 Rule to Focus on Your Best Customers

Have you heard of the 80/20 rule? Also known as the Pareto Principle, the 80/20 rule states that 20% of your activities generate 80% of your results. You can take this rule and apply it to almost any situation…

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18 January 2021

Happy Customers, Happy Business

The aim for every business is to have an abundance of happy customers who continue to come back time and time again, and who recommend you left, right and center. And when it comes to understanding your weaknesses and identifying new opportunities to expand your business, your customers are often the best people to support you.

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4 January 2021

Planning Your Business

Planning is a key element to running a successful business, yet you’d be surprised how many businesses don’t have a plan in place! To reach your goals, you really need to have a business plan…

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4 December 2020

What Makes you Unique?

All too often one of the first things people focus on when they’re starting their business is designing their logo and nailing a catchy tagline. But before you invest time and money in that direction, you first need to put your energy into getting clear on what makes your business different…

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23 November 2020

Get Clear on What You Want

You’d be right in thinking that the obvious first step for anyone starting a business, is to sit down and get really clear on what they want and why they want it.

What’s interesting though is how little time many business owners actually give to this before opening their doors to customers.

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9 November 2020

Metrics for Merging Teams

When your teams don’t understand and collaborate well it can be incredibly frustrating – and costly! This is particularly apparent when businesses have merged.

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26 October 2020

Creating Flow with Metrics

When your business already has tried and tested systems and processes in place, it can sometimes be hard to take an objective step back and see how they can be improved.

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12 October 2020

Make Your Metrics Crystal Clear

We all know that when it comes to business, one of the key things we need to have a handle on are our numbers. However, there’s no point having numbers for numbers sake!

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28 September 2020

How Metrics Help Your Sales and Marketing

There are a variety of ways that metrics can help drive decisions for your business. So, let’s take a look at a sales and marketing case study, and how some simple metrics can help a business increase their profits without the need to increase their marketing spend.

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14 September 2020

How Metrics Help a Business

When it comes to metrics, I could easily reel off a long list with definitions for you, but in reality that’s not actually very helpful (or that interesting to read!).

Why?

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29 August 2020

Why Your Numbers Are at the Heart of Your Business

Whatever your business, knowing how it’s doing at any point in time means you’re able to make the most of opportunities and respond quickly to threats.

So how do you keep your finger on the pulse?

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3 March 2020

Financing your business – part 2

Are you ready to grow?

If you are, then financing your business is an important part of this.

There are several options available, and this is the second blog giving you an overview of what these are, so you’re informed and can start researching in more depth the right option for your business.

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21 February 2020

Financing your business – Part 1

Are you ready to grow?

If you are, then financing your business is an important part of this.

There are a number of options available, and over the next two blogs I’ll be giving you an overview of what these are, so you’re informed and can start researching in more depth the right option for your business.

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5 February 2020

Services, Systems and Tools

You’ve just started out in business. It’s just you (or maybe you and a business partner). There isn’t much going on. Everything is in your head and it all gets done.

But what about when it gets busy?

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21 January 2020

Budgeting in an uncertain time – Part 3

The final furlong of creating your budget, is to ensure you have a crystal-clear forward and backward plan laid out.

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12 January 2020

Budgeting in an uncertain time – part 2

You’ve completed all of the essential preparation work for your 2020 budget, and now it’s time to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard – whatever your preference) with some facts and figures.

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17 December 2019

Budgeting in an uncertain time

Things every business needs to know – part 2 Why does a budget matter? Let’s be honest when it comes to working to a budget, things don’t always go exactly to plan! There are so many variables involved that it’s...

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3 December 2019

Things every business needs to know

Keeping on top of everything as a small business can feel a bit like a game of ‘whack-a-mole’ sometimes. Just as you feel you’ve got on top of one topic, up pops another one that needs attention.

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