That’s A Wrap!
19 December 2016
Posted by Equus Partners
As we draw to the end of 2016, I wanted to reflect and share some of our achievements and plans for the future with you.
That’s a Wrap
Wow, what a year it has been for the team at Equus. Here’s just a few things that we’re proud of achieving in the last 12 months:
- We’ve made the world a better place by giving 19,250 days of access to life-saving clean water to people in Malawi, 58 days of agricultural training to farmers in Malawi, and 2 goats to a rural families in Kenya to have sustainable income for a year.
- We successfully moved our systems from Office365 and Dropbox to G Suite and AODocs. A big move but it’s working like a charm.
- Our team in the Phillipines grew from 5 to 8 amazing people. Our team continue to make wonderful achievements and our business wouldn’t be where it is today without the drive, ambition and attitude of our great team. Thank you to all of you.
- We systemised almost every one of our operational processes over a 3-month period project called “Steps to Success”. It had been a long time coming and we didn’t know where to start – there were so many processes. We ended up using an application called ScreenSteps to host our online procedures. Our team ran the project and it was a huge success. Moreover, it has paid immediate dividends by helping new team members get familiar with how we do what we do.
- And we kicked the Tax Office’s butt (nicely) a few times. It’s been a good year.
What we’re doing in 2017
Planning like ninjas
Like people, businesses also need goal setting and direction. We all should be taking time in early January to reflect on 2016 and plan for 2017. Personally, it has become a yearly routine to start off a new year with a new journal. I’ll start by writing out my values, life goals, and the top 5 things I want to achieve by the end of the year. I also add a ‘to stop list’ – a list of things I no longer want to do – like bookkeeping (for my own business that is).
For our business, we take a few days to plan the next 12 months and make sure our next quarter’s one page plan is drafted and ready to pitch to the team when we get back to work. We also map out our next quarter’s theme and wildly important goal. If the penny just dropped, take the chance while things are quiet to work on your business. If you need assistance with this, book a Business Strategy Session with your advisor in January and February and start your year off ‘firing on all cylinders’.
Publishing a couple of books
We’re proud to announce that we’ll be launching a couple of insightful books next year. Titled: Count More Beans by Nadi Elias – aimed at helping motivated cafe owners make more profit, have more cash and maximise the value of their cafes; and More Beans Less Grind by Chris Nairn – aimed at helping successful cafe owners extract wealth from their businesses to grow their personal wealth outside of their business. These books will be like nothing out there. If you’re interested in find out more (or getting your hands on a copy once published) get in contact with us.
Getting active
We start next year off with a bang – presenting our profit-enhancing strategies to a group of go-getting cafe entrepreneurs at the Australian Specialty Coffee Association’s Symposium on the Secrets of Specialty – If you’re serious about growing your cafe business, then you don’t want to miss this event. The list of speakers is impressive. Get your tickets here.
Launching our Finance Division – EP Finance
We’ve been busy planning out the development of our new mortgage and finance division – EP Finance. Set to go live by February 2017, we’ll be helping our clients in all areas of obtaining smart and efficient finance, from new loans (home loans and commercial finance), asset finance (cars and equipment) to refinancing existing loans and restructuring debt with the purpose of saving our clients interest costs. More details to come soon.
Website facelift
Our website is going to get a nice little facelift. Stay tuned.