Are Customers Legally Obligated to Pay You?

by | Wednesday, May 10, 2017 | 03 Legal & Risk Management, Business Tools, Finance Training Courses Online, Small Business, small business management, training courses, Xero online training course

Want to get paid? Have a contract in place! THERE ARE PLENTY of risks to operating your own business, but the largest ongoing one is making certain that your customers pay you, and do so on time. This is known as debt or credit management. Each state has their own set...
Is Australia Post Digital Mailbox Competing with Dropbox AND RealEstate.com.au?

Is Australia Post Digital Mailbox Competing with Dropbox AND RealEstate.com.au?

by | Wednesday, March 23, 2016 | 05 Researching the Market, Business Startup Help with starting a new business, Real Estate Agents, Small Business

Australia Post entices customers to e-invoicing with $25 gift card If you have had to renew your PO Box recently you probably received an offer to switch to e-invoicing and why wouldn’t you? Save money, receive yearly invoices in your email and get $25 bucks. We...

A new sponsor helps fund our free digital business course

by | Tuesday, February 9, 2016 | 07 Marketing Action Plan, 08 Undertake Marketing Activities, Marketing Training Courses Online, Real Estate Agents, Small Business, small business marketing

What do real estate agents need to worry about digital business courses for? We’ve written a lot about bookkeeping and other professional services businesses but we’ve never touched on the topic of real estate agents and after learning more about how they...

20 Questions You Need to Ask Before Starting a Business – Part II

by | Saturday, January 2, 2016 | Business Secrets, Business Startup Help with starting a new business, News, Small Business, small business management

Your wages, your name and your marketing I’VE BEEN WRITING about some of the 20-or-so questions I always think you should ask before you start a business. Some of them we cover in our Small Business Management Courses, and others may require you to do a little...

Has the ATO been bankrolling your business?

by | Monday, December 21, 2015 | 09 Monitor & Manage Small Business Operations, Finance Training Courses Online, News, Operations, Logistics and Management Training Courses, small business management

There’s a lot to learn about people who pay their tax debts late The ATO announced the other day that they’re owed more than $35b in tax debts, mostly from businesses and individuals are late filing their returns or making payments. Even though big businesses...
Recruitment: Where Will You Find Your Next Employee?

Recruitment: Where Will You Find Your Next Employee?

by | Saturday, November 7, 2015 | 09 Monitor & Manage Small Business Operations, 15 Hiring Staff, Increasing Performance and Retaining Good People, News, Operations, Logistics and Management Training Courses

Are Seek and CareerOne now less relevant? In a past Sydney meet-up, we were discussing recruitment and the ways business owners find and attract quality talent to their firms, which revealed an interesting shift away from the traditional methods of recruitment. When...

20 Questions You Need to Ask Before Starting a Business – Part I

by | Thursday, July 30, 2015 | 01 Originate & Develop Concepts, 05 Researching the Market, Business Secrets, Course topics, small business management, training courses

Business structure and needs analysis when starting a business There are about twenty questions everyone should ask before starting a business. Most of those questions we cover in our Small Business Management Courses, while others we assume you’ve already thought...

Current unemployment rate highest in Australia than peak of GFC

by | Friday, June 19, 2015 | 07 Marketing Action Plan, 08 Undertake Marketing Activities, 11 Selling your products or services, News, small business management, VoIP and Communications

Is there security in being an employee? The Australian Bureau of Statistics recently announced that the unemployment rate had fallen to 6 percent; news that was probably met with a collective mopping of eyebrows and sighs of relief from the Abbott government which has...

What Makes a Great Work Café?

by | Monday, December 22, 2014 | News, small business management

Is There a Formula? In a post I wrote recently, I mentioned that working from a café every now and then is great for your productivity, particularly if you’re the kind of person who finds working from home too distracting. The key, though, is finding the right café,...

Does The Government Even Care About Small Businesses?

by | Thursday, December 18, 2014 | 10 Report on Financial Activities, 13 Valuations and Raising Capital, MYOB, News, small business management

Pay a Success-Based Tax If you’ve ever owned an investment property, you know about capital gains tax (CGT). It’s that nasty little tax you pay on any gain you make when you sell or dispose of capital. There are exceptions, of course. If the property is your primary...