The building inspection tells you if the house is falling down. It does not tell you where the water shutoff is, or why the third power point in the lounge does nothing, or whether the antenna on the roof has been connected to anything since 2013.Those are the things you find out in the first fortnight, usually at a bad moment.Here is a first week list for anyone who has just moved into an older home. Not a renovation plan. Just the small stuff that costs almost nothing to check now and a lot of annoyance to discover later.Find the…
Author: Streamline
The hardest part of a first marketing budget isn’t the amount. It’s being asked to price something you’ve never bought, in a market where almost nobody publishes a figure.Ask three agencies what a campaign costs and you’ll get three requests for a discovery call. That’s not a conspiracy, it’s just how the industry prices. But it leaves a business owner trying to budget for a thing with no visible price tag, which usually produces a number pulled from anxiety rather than arithmetic.Here’s a way through that doesn’t require sitting through six sales calls first.Start from customer value, not leftover cashMost…