BY: GUEST AUTHOR Business planning tends to be done in cycles. A cycle may be a week, a month, a quarter or a year. At the end of every cycle, you have the opportunity to compare your business plan to your actual results. The insights you gain from this are used to plan for the next […]
BY: STEVE GRANT Let me start by saying that effective marketing is the lifeblood of any successful business, big or small. Having said that, smaller start-up businesses often don’t have a lot of excess cash to splash around so I hate to see their money go to waste on marketing strategies that are unnecessary. Based on what […]
BY: GUEST AUTHOR The end of a financial year is just a date in a calendar, we use this date to draw a line in the sand and say to ourselves – this is how my business has performed. We then report that data to the relevant stakeholders and measure our performance, pay our tax, meet […]
BY: GUEST AUTHOR The end of the financial year can be a stressful time for small businesses, especially if your finances aren’t completely in order. Unfortunately, that’s an all-too-common situation. A recent Xero survey found that three-quarters of Australian small businesses still store their receipts in shoeboxes. With the average Australian business churning through 100 receipts […]
BY: GUEST AUTHOR Everybody who launches a small to mid-size business of their own these days hopes to hit the bull’s eye as soon as possible. The problem is there are literally millions of other people aiming at the same target. This produces competition of millions, meaning the risk of failing to stand out is high. […]
BY: DYNAMIC BUSINESS Most first businesses struggle to make it past their first year in operation. If you are planning on going into business for yourself and you want to survive, especially in a crowded sector such as IT, you’ll need to strike a balance between product focus and service versatility. Here are some reasons making […]
BY: JAMES HARKNESS With just three weeks until small businesses must become SuperStream compliant, the Australian Tax Office (ATO) has urged those yet to implement the new standard to act now. From 1 July, it will be mandatory for employers with 19 or fewer staff to send all super payments and employee information electronically in a standard format using SuperStream. According […]
BY: GUEST AUTHOR Whether you’ve had a bumper year or a bummer year there are still things you can do to improve and prepare yourself for the best year ever! End of Financial Year is a great opportunity to take a moment to reflect on how the year has gone and to make some New Year’s Resolutions to […]
BY: GUEST AUTHOR Earlier this year the World Economic Forum published its Future Jobs Report and the research listed ‘complex problem solving’, ‘critical thinking’ and ‘creativity’ as the most valuable skills for 2020. Nurturing these skills will enable your business to adapt and thrive in an era of unprecedented fast paced disruption. Here are several behaviours you […]
BY: PHILIP PILETIC Business is good: that thought is music to the ears of many business owners. When things are going right, it’s hard to ignore the money rolling in hand over fist. Yet, just because a business has tasted a modicum of success, this does not mean that it is time to relax. When a […]
