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MAUS Business Systems has gained a great understanding of the needs of the SME market through the MAUS and EBC businesses. The range of MAUS software has long been a leader in innovative business management solutions. The programs have helped thousands of consultants and more than 50,000 Australian businesses in their endeavour to improve profits through improving business performance.MAUS provides coaches with its innovative range of coaching tools, as illustrated below, and other software in the suite of products.
The coaching software tools will streamline your business operations, while assisting you to generate revenue from coaching services.
Coaching Tools
The following groundbreaking tools are provided as part of the package:Business Planning Software & Report Writer
This software enables you to produce professional Business Plans complete with Business Analysis, Competitive Positioning and Financials for your clients.Enter your client’s details into the business planning template and then email the completed file to Corprat. Our powerful business planning software that sits on the server will then process your client’s data and produce for you in under 10 minutes a professional 30 page business plan, recognised by Banks and Lenders.
Become an instant professional at writing Business Plans. Use the Business Plan as a means of selling business coaching or use the Business Plan Creator as part of your detailed assignment. Become more “time productive” and leverage the profitability of your practice.
Business Diagnostic - Profit Driver Software & Report Writer
Produces a diagnostic snapshot and review of your client’s operations in minutes. The final report will profile your client’s business, recommend changes and establish a high-level revenue action plan and an expense reduction action plan.Enter your client’s data into the diagnostic template and upload it to our server. Our powerful Business Diagnostic software will process your client’s information and then send you a completed 15-page report within 10 minutes.
This report can be used either as a selling tool or as a way of generating ideas and direction for the business. Helps to conceptualise difficult business decisions into an easy methodology.
Business Valuer Software & Report Writer
Provides an indicative valuation report for your clients that outlines how much their company could be worth today and a potential future forecast. Based on accepted valuation methodology.Enter details about your client into the valuation questionnaire. The Business Valuer software that sits on the server will then assess and draft an indicative valuation report based on profit, cash flow and market factors. The report that is submitted to your client is a potential valuation report and should not be used as a real valuation. The report includes graphs and “What if” scenarios and is automatically emailed to you.
This provides a platform for you to review your client’s exit strategies. Work with them on improving their business and on developing systems that will ultimately improve the value of their business.
Proposal Writer Software
Automatically creates a 13-page client proposal that sells your services. Includes your interview assessment, executive summary, methodology and commercial terms.During your client interview, you should extract certain key information. Send the information to our server and our powerful Proposal Writer software will assemble the data, generate your 8-page proposal and email it back to you.
If you ever written a proposal you know how much time they take. This program will help you to generate winning proposals in minutes.
The proposals will help you to look professional as well as commercially protecting you by detailing your payment terms and disclaimers.
One Page Scorecard Software
Produce a “one page” snapshot of your client’s business. This monthly scorecard tracks the key company KPI trends and allows you to offer a monthly “one-page” scorecard service for your clients.This is a stand-alone software package that is supplied to all coaches that join the network. Create scorecards for all your clients. Create KPI’s for each client and measure forecasted to actual figures. Graph and monitor a business’s monthly performance demonstrating obstacles and successes.
This scorecard process provides you with a proven methodology to help you improve your client’s business. Provides the framework of your monthly business coaching and helps you to leverage your hourly charge out rate into a recurring revenue package.
Become a Coach Software
This is a stand-alone software and video package that will provide your practice with training videos and templates on how to become a Business Coach.This is a self-paced training program and practice development kit to be used in your initial training. Demonstrates “state of the art” marketing, lead generation and developed techniques in becoming a coach. Includes videos illustrating proven marketing and selling strategies that allow you to win clients. Sample advertising, proposals and start up forms.
Becoming a Business Coach can be difficult without a structure or systems to follow. This package provides guidance and procedures to ensure your success. Review and study areas of coaching over and over till you get it perfect.
Marketing Toolkit Software
Learn how to market yourself to your clients. This package includes management, employee, customer, marketing and profit programs as well as practice development tools and forms. The Marketing Toolkit is a stand-alone software package that also contains an authoring tool to modify the forms for your practice.Use the diagnostic for yourself and/or for your clients. Expertly navigate the key areas of business management with professional forms and diagnostics. Modify the forms, enter your customer data and with a click of a button export to Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel and Word.
This will save you hundreds of hours in developing your own forms and management programs. The report writing tools instantly display your clients’ results.
Use as a selling tool or as a detailed “Step by step” program. Simple diagrams allow you to present your new knowledge at any level of business.
Lead Generation System
We provide you with your own customized version of the mini MBA program, which is sent to your customers. Every 20 days your clients and prospects will receive a profit improvement presented by you. Your company name is mentioned throughout the newsletter.We customise the mini MBA program with your details so it appears as if your company developed the program. When you enter one of your prospects or clients into the database, we then email every 20 days the profit improvement tip or mini MBA topic. We manage, bounce backs, unsubscribes etc.
Build a relationship with potential clients without selling to them. Build credibility and trust. Provide the program as a value add to existing clients.
Mini MBA
MAUS Mini MBA provides you with a comprehensive range of tools created to assist you in succeeding in today’s challenging business environment. This nationally recognised training program has been tailored to the current needs of business owners and managers. By covering nine relevant business topics the guide illustrates relevant major concepts from business theory and applies them to practical and easy to follow.The Mini MBA is multifunctional, as it can be used as a management resource tool and for staff training. It can be used to gain a certificate 4 and a diploma of management (for an additional cost).
All Accredited Partners have the opportunity to become facilitators and assessors of the Diploma Program, meaning you can offer your clients and their staff a Government recognised qualification. The Mini MBA is 100% tax deductible. It is a complete in house training kit that allows no need for a presenter, all modules have a video lecture and self paced assessment.
MasterPlan Software
This software enables you to develop customised Business and Marketing Plans to suit your industry, complete with a full set of financials, actual vs. budgeted comparisons and graphical analysis.MasterPlan will prompt you with ideas and suggestions and will demonstrate through real life examples how you can analyse your business and prepare successful strategies for the future.
The range of plans available are ideal for loan applications right through to setting strategic direction while the financial wizard allows you to develop customised spreadsheets and conduct a 'what if' analysis on all your forecasts.
Performance Review Software
This program provides the framework for implementing a comprehensive performance management system that can align an organisation’s strategic objectives with its employee management processes.Using both performance competencies and employee objectives, the Performance Review Enterprise Edition will help create a complete picture of each employee's performance.
This is an easy to use and effective tool for performance reviews; it will help you to motivate employees through frequent performance feedback. You can even customise the review process to reflect the unique nature of your organisation.
Job Descriptions software
Job Descriptions, gives you the ability to create a detailed outline of employee responsibilities and roles, educational requirements, work environment and even necessary job knowledge quickly and simply!Using exclusive Intelli-Text technology, the software will virtually writes and customises the descriptions for you.
Accurate and up-to-date job descriptions are essential for keeping your employees focused. Job descriptions provide a solid base for measuring accomplishments and helping you hire the right people. Just as importantly, job descriptions are an essential element in legally protecting your business from employee litigation.
Employee Manual software
Provides consultants with a flexible platform to create customised employee policies and procedures for any type or size of organisation.Takes you through a simple question and answer process with sample answers for guidance.
Help fulfill your clients’ legal obligations and protect them from unfair dismissal claims. The Employee Manual is fully customisable to suit any business or industry, it exports to html and is fully networkable.
Policies Manual software
Policies Manual is designed for consultants to help companies develop a complete operations handbook incorporating procedures, workflow documents and business forms into one comprehensive reference manual.Takes you through a simple question and answer process with sample answers for guidance.
Promotes better organisational communication and reduced inefficiencies by creating easily understandable goals and guidelines for operating your clients’ business. Policies Manual will save you 50-90% of the time normally taken to complete a policies manual.
Health and Safety Planning software
The Health and Safety Planner will allow you to quickly analyse your strengths and weaknesses and implement guidelines to ensure your business meets its legal obligations in regards to OH&S requirements.Takes you through a simple question and answer process with sample answers for guidance.
A safety program is probably the single most important component to controlling compensation costs, time lost due to accidents, and even workplace morale. Writing and communicating are the key steps to ensuring the success of a safety program in your client’s business.
Quality Assurance software
This software is designed for consultants to help organisations develop their own customised Quality Manual.This extremely simple to use software will help you develop quality procedures and policies for staff to follow by guiding you through a question and answer process.
Dramatically reduces the time and cost required to complete a Quality Assurance manual that is ISO9000:2000 compliant.
Consultant’s client management software
The Consultants Pack will give you the forms, tools and know-how to establish a professional Business Consultancy. It’s an ideal resource for professionals looking to value-add to their current services using a systematic and structured approach to Business Consulting.It guides you through the business planning process, monitors each stage of various assignments and helps keep you on track and on schedule. This package also contains all the relevant forms, templates, and literature to assist your coaching practice in providing business and marketing planning services.
The Consultant’s Pack comes complete with all you need to set up, or improve your business consultancy, it contains free resources for other business activities and allows you to customise questionnaires and sample text to your client requirements.
KPI Scorecard Manager software
This innovative product will enable you to measure, analyse and report on your client's Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) on an ongoing basis. Using the worldwide phenomena of the Balanced Scorecard theory, this comprehensive software application allows you to monitor financial and non-financial KPIs for any business. Among the added features, the KPI Scorecard Consultant’s version provides you with multiple databases and gives you extra licensing rights.Useful and easily interpreted 'KPI Scorecards' are produced incorporating all the relevant financial and non-financial KPIs. These reports will provide your clients with an efficient mechanism for assessing their performance on numerous levels and across any time period.
The product is fast and easy to use and could potentially earn your practice thousands of dollars worth of new and ongoing revenue.
Stockmarket software
StockMarket Plus is an easy to use Share Portfolio Management software.It enables investors to keep track of their investments and provides important data to make informed and profitable investment decisions.
Gives investors the capability to quickly and easily monitor performance movement and manage Share portfolios.
Benchmarking Guides
You have access to 90 benchmarking guides so you can compare your client’s results to the average in their field. The benchmarking guides focus on KPI’s specific to that industry and offer tips and techniques to improve your client’s performance should they fall below the average in any area.From the www.maus.com.au website, simply select the guide you are interested in from the navigation menu and browse online.
The benchmarking guides give you an insight into your clients business, even if you have not worked with someone in their field before. Used as a reference source, you gain the confidence to take on board clients you never thought possible.
Start-Up Guides
This subscription gives you access to over 162 industry start-up guides for people who want to skip the guess work in setting up a businessFrom the www.maus.com.au website, simply select the guide you are interested in from the navigation menu and browse online.
The start-up guides are invaluable for someone starting a business in an industry that may be unfamiliar to them. The guides will give them all they need to know in regards to costs, expected returns and likely obstacles along the way.
Information Resource Centre
Developed by industry experts, you have access to Australia’s largest Information Resource Centre with information specific to SME’s in relation to topics ranging from getting your business on line to the effects of changing policy on your (and your clients) business.Unlimited access to an extensive & growing range of articles and "how to" solutions to help you in starting, growing and managing your client’s business. You can benefit from over 7,500 pages of accurate, practical and regularly updated business content.
Web Marketing
Simplifies search engine optimisation- at the click of a button submits your website to 100s of major search engines which increases traffic to your website. Search engines such as Yahoo, Excite, AltaVista, Lycos.The software guides you through a step-by-step process (inlc. wizard). The “do it yourself” submission method is the easiest and most affordable way to promote yours and your clients’ webpage on the internet.
To maintain high Search Engine rankings for your 'keyword', you must regularly submit your website to search engines. The program will save you between 50-90% of the time to do this repetitive task.
Information Memorandum Writer
Instantly create an Information Memorandum for your client.Choose from a list of pre-configured topics then automatically email your clients a questionnaire. Once your client answers the questions the finished file is easily imported into the program where the technology will massage, calculate and assemble into a complete plan.
The program automatically calculates, formats & merges your client’s details into a 10-35 page information memorandum. Export & import interactive client questionnaire. Reduce downtime in the sale preparation process.
HR Profiler
MAUS HR Profiler is designed to help you streamline the recruitment process, capitalise on the skills possessed by existing staff and take away the hassle of identifying the right person for the right job.This innovative new software will compare the skills and abilities of your candidates/employees against the requirements of the position and your business in general.
Recruit the best available resources to your business while coaching existing staff to a higher level of performance.
SellBiz Pro Software
This software tool will guide you through the process of preparing a clients business for sale.MAUS Sell Your Business guides you every step of the way through the sale of your clients business, covering all areas from valuation to contracts; this software will complete your exit-planning toolkit.
Developed from 1000's of hours of research by experts in the field, MAUS Sell Your Business helps you, step-by-step to implement the systems and processes needed to get your client the maximum possible sale price for their business.
Profit Builder Software
The program takes a series of simple inputs from your clients and generates a practical report containing recommendations for improvement and where appropriate, a mention of consultancy services that you can offer to help improve their business.The program even incorporates a range of insightful What-If Analyses designed to stimulate your clients’ thought processes relating to both potential problem areas and opportunities.
Profit builder will create revenue & profitability for you or your clients business. It also provides KPI analysis, productivity, business & marketing planning
Exit Planner
This software helps you produce a readiness index and then a detailed action plan to guide your client toward being ready to sell their business. The readiness index is based on an understanding of business valuation methodologies and an appreciation of what a buyer wants to see when they purchase a business.Follow a simple questionnaire to conduct a thorough business audit of your client’s business. The “Readiness Index” is calculated by averaging your client’s performance across a number of key areas. At a click of a button, you can produce detailed client reports – the Readiness Index provides an overview of where they are now and the Action Plan is the working document to get them to where they want to be.
The Readiness Index will provide your client with an edge when selling their business. The Action Plan will help you implement the changes need to drive the business toward 100% ready. The more attractive and the more presentable their company is, the more likely they will be to sell at a higher price.