This Way Out

We know it’s hard to understand why a business owner in the start-up phase should contemplate an exit strategy, however, in business you should always ‘start with the end in…

Raising money for your new business venture is often the biggest challenge for a start-up entrepreneur. The truth is, it’s not that easy for an established business to gain funding…

According to a recent study from Infusionsoft who produce sales and marketing software for small business owners, there are four distinct types of business owner. Their attitude, mindset and behaviour…

  What if all your marketing efforts including your website, advertising and social media strategies all  started to work at once? Sounds like a ‘perfect storm’ most small business owners…

Contribution Caps From 1 July 2014 there is indexation of contribution caps. Regular indexation of the caps was legislated back in 2007, however, it has been frozen in recent years.…

Superannuation Guarantee Contributions The timetable for increasing Superannuation Guarantee Contributions to 12% has been slowed. Superannuation Guarantee Contributions increase from 9.25% to 9.5% as of 1st July 2014 with the…

According to the Australian Securities and Investment Commission’s (ASIC) annual report published in October 2013, the number of businesses registered in Australia has reached a record 2.03 million. The report…

Need to print a document, photo or message from your phone, tablet or other mobile device? There are now multiple apps on the market which will connect your phone to…

Some 800,000 people run a home based business in Australia. Many of them are start-ups, independent contractors or sole traders and the most common types of home based businesses include:…

A survey conducted in the US by email marketing company Constant Contact suggests that 59% of small business owners believe it’s harder to run a business today than it was…