From the category archives:

Speed & Efficiency

Podcast 14: Managing Email, Calendars, Contacts and Passwords More Efficiently

Ken Burgin talks with productivity expert Helen Crozier about how to handle business communication and online activity more efficiently. The discussion focuses on four key areas: bringing email under control, managing your calendar for events and meetings, keeping track of contacts, and managing passwords – important in so many areas of modern life, and easy [...]

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Podcast 10: Success Interview with Paul Smith, chef/owner of Green Zebra Cafe

Meet Paul Smith, successful chef/owner of Green Zebra Cafe in Albury, NSW – a large inland town in Australia. Paul and his partner have had the cafe for more than 10 years and have built a great reputation for their food, coffee and the fresh pasta they make on the premises (also sold retail). In [...]

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Podcast 9: New Year Profit and Efficiency Boosters

January is a great time to look with new eyes at marketing, cost control, staff skills, bottlenecks and your own personal efficiency and satisfaction. Here are dozens of tips and resources to get the new year off to a great start – share these with your team! LISTEN to more free podcasts from Profitable Hospitality [...]

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Podcast 8: Outsourcing 2 – 10 Projects to Outsource: Restaurant Graphics, Admin, Marketing & Recipe Writing

In the first of the Outsourcing podcasts, we looked at how to prepare a brief, find a contactor and manage a project. In this podcast, we look at 10 different restaurant, hotel, bar or cafe projects that you’ve probably had on the ‘to do’ (or ‘too expensive’) list that are perfect for outsourcing. They range [...]

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Podcast 7: Outsourcing 1 – How to Outsource Hospitality Administration & Design Work

Do you have a pile of tasks that aren’t being done? Outsourcing services are great for getting design and admin. jobs done quickly and at low cost – people from around the world can bid on your job and usually have it done within a few days. Projects could involve writing, design, photo editing, data [...]

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Tales of a Procrastinator…anyone else recognise this condition?

Ouch!

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