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Telesis began as a specialist consulting firm mainly working on the impact of technology on various industries and studying telecommunications and what new technologies might mean to megional businesses.

The Trap of Cross-selling

Cross-selling new products and services to your existing customers is chiselled into Business Development 101, but if your goal is to increase the value of your business, the added revenue may do nothing for your company’s value – and may even lower it.

5 Reasons Why Your Business Is Too Dependent On You

If you were to draw a picture that visually represents your role in your business, what would it look like? Are you at the top of an organisational chart, or stuck in the middle of your business like a hub in a bicycle wheel?

3 Ways to Get Your Life Back

If the pandemic has forced you back into the weeds of your business, you’re not alone. Many owners are again doing tasks they haven’t done in years because they have had to lay off front-line staff or their employees have fallen ill or are caring for someone in need.

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

Zig Ziglar

Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.

Peter Drucker

The only way around is through.

Robert Frost

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right!

Henry Ford

Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rodgers

If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.

Steve Jobs

There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.

Seth Godin

You only have to do a few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

Warren Buffett

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

Richard Branson

Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill