Editor's blog
Business emails: Legal matters (Part 1)
As emails fly back and forth between your business and clients, partners, friends and family, it’s easy to forget one thing: emails are often used as evidence in legal proceedings.
ASIC: Ensure you remain compliant
ASIC is a necessary body to have, ensuring companies are kept in line and consumers, investors and creditors are protected, but it’s the compliance aspects that can easily catch businesses out.
Personal Property Security: It’s in the Ts & Cs
The potential benefits with the PPSA are indeed obvious, but, as with anything relating to assets and property, the devil can be in the details.
Business events: just be cool
You've got to get to the (succinct) point quickly, have kits of info ready to go for those who want to take it with them, and then… nothing.
Jetpack invention a lesson in courage
Most people are not smart enough to invent a jet pack. I’m talking about a personal jet pack that actually flies.
Importing game means ‘eating your own dog food’
It's a disgusting notion, and in a way confirms our worse fears about imported food: that the handling practices overseas are subpar, and diseases lurk within the polished exterior.
Starting with trust, again
Much like the whims of the stock exchange, politics and business alike are susceptible to rumours and dissent in the ranks.
Never-say-die in raising capital
I recently heard a great line that got my mind ticking over: “When you're not paying for the product, you are the product.”
Be the glass half full this year
“Back at work(?)” they say, bug eyed, and waiting for you to say something negative. Words to the effect of “Wish I were still on the beach” coupled with a grimace or a strategic eye-roll tend to suffice.
Shifting the blame wears thin
Sometimes to simply stay viable, unpopular, if not heartbreaking changes are necessary. That’s part and parcel of business, politics, and life.
Smash December targets with a plan
Before all that good stuff comes along, it seems the list of things to do – and inevitable dilemmas associated with annual close downs and the like – gets longer and more complicated each year.
Obtaining finance no magic formula
I’ve been fortunate enough to be my own boss for twenty years. Let me be the first to say that there isn’t a business owner in Australia, nay the world, who hasn’t fought in the battle of obtaining finance.
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