Monday 25th January sees the launch of my new book Golf Business Turnaround-the 7 Essential Steps to Success.

In what is essentially a step by step blueprint for saving and turning around a struggling golf business, I will reveal many of the advanced techniques and strategies I use with paying clients; and apply the kind of thinking and business innovation that has attracted clients both at home and abroad to seek out our help here at hole18.

In this ground breaking new success manual you will discover an incredibly powerful formula that could turn your golf business from brink of failure to roaring success this year.Each day this week I will share some of what you can expect in the book when you open it next Monday:

FIRE-FIGHTING

On day 1 I will take you through a system you can implement almost as you read which will transform the cashflow into and out of your golf business overnight. Suddenly you will realise that you can save your business and move it up a gear to achieve the huge success you’ve always craved. However, your day 1 reading will reveal a whole lot more besides; you will:

1. Learn a beautifully simple but incredibly powerful technique to help you see your business cashflow process as you’ve never seen it before; suddenly you will see exactly how it works and how to implement two further actions which will allow you to:
2. Slash your costs without damaging your business, even though you’ve been through the budget 100 times before and thought you’d done everything you could.
3. Explode your income potential starting TODAY, with real techniques you can introduce immediately.
4. In addition to all of this you will now have a system specific to your business that you can use again and again to keep the profits rolling in.

Now I’ll let you in to a little secret, even if you were to get your hands on this life changing book today (which you can’t I’m afraid; its not released until 25th) you wouldn’t be the first to read it. That’s because I’ve given it out to a select group of golf industry and business experts. Here is what Kenny Imrie of Golf Architecture International had to say about it:

“Golf Business Turnaround… The 7 Essential Steps to Success” addresses the major problem strangling golf facilities all over the UK: they are being run as clubs and not as businesses. The information is presented in an easy to follow structure and the emphasis is on creating manageable actions, all of which make this a very usable business tool. Above all else, it does one critical thing exceptionally well. It generates the necessary confidence required to transform the fortunes of an ailing golf business and there is not a lot of this confidence going around in the golf industry at the moment! Kenneth Imrie, Golf Architecture International

You can pre-book your copy of Golf Business Turnaround, the 7 essential steps to success by completing the form below: Meantime I’ll be back tomorrow with more news.

Well the snow is going now, and whilst it was great to feel is0lated and cut off for a while, the fact remains that even where I live in a fairly remote part of upland Perthshire, there is still a 24 hour Tesco within 30 minutes even on snow covered roads, we still had broadband, digital TV and uninterrupted telephone service; there was a well stocked fridge, freezer , wine rack and log shed, we had great fun sledging and building igloos…oh and yes I finished writing my new book on Golf Business Turnaround in relative warmth and comfort.

We forget just how lucky we are sometimes and even those of you who were dreading this New Year more than most due to the very harsh Read more

You will recall about 18 months ago we launched a report on Golf Club Survival, in fact many of you will have had your first encounter with Hole18 as a result of that report. Well that report was more popular than I could ever have imagined when I wrote it and it caused a rush of activity on the site.

You might also recall the advice I gave in that report and in particular the 5 things that golf businesses MUST do to survive the recession/general down turn in the golf industry. Just to recap these were:

1. Manage your cash flow
2. Retain your best people (and exit the worst ones)
3. Retain your best customers (and exit the unprofitable ones)
4. Improve your profit (by removing waste)
5. Guard your energy (you’ll need it when times get tough)

These five strategies were designed to take advantage of the recession and made changes that normally business leaders did not want to do. There were 4 countries that didn’t technically go into recession (Australia, China, India, and Indonesia) but globally things have been tough for everyone regardless of where they operate.

But now it is becoming apparent that most of the world is coming out of the recession, there are some green shoots of receovery as the politicians say. However, you might further recall that I thought back then that many golf businesses were making an excuse of the recession to account for their Read more