Tag: Small Business

Your new obligations as a director of an Australian business.

XERO Small Business Index falls 14 points below average in month of September.

In this edition of the webinar, Mark Pesce interviews the team from the Fred Hollows Foundation & SAP Concur

RBA backflips recommendation on buy now pay later “no-surcharge rules” that would see retailers able to pass BNPL costs to customers.

There is a right way and a wrong way to ask for customer feedback.

Yesterday NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet announced stock guarantee grants of up to $20,000 to small businesses in the lead up to Christmas. Should a local lockdown occur, small and medium enterprises with an annual turnover of $75,000 and $50 million will be eligible to apply for grants up to $20,000 to compensate for losses of […]

SPC is giving Australian companies access to its Vaccine Response Plan to provide them with the resources to guide them in their own COVID vaccination mandate plans.

ACA Research’s monthly SME COVID tracker report shows that despite revenue and employment data remaining weak, SME decision-makers are feeling hopeful for the prospect of opening up by Christmas SME sentiment has shifted As the majority of Australians remain under lockdown, small businesses continue to struggle. Sentiments amongst decision-makers remain on a knife-edge, with more […]

Data released last week by Xero produced as part of its small business index shows SMEs continue to struggle through lockdowns. The data shows small businesses are performing below average, containing the downwards trend from July.   Sales in small business Despite Australia’s two most populous states being in lockdown, sales numbers grew over August compared […]

Despite disillusioning data, business attracts expectations of fame and fortune. The advent of social media has made it even easier to feed this narrative.  What initially attracted me to becoming an entrepreneur was a desire to build something, and my passion for psychology and marketing suggested a fitting journey in business. I’ve now happily been […]