When to Use Newspapers for Advertising Newspapers might seem old school, but a lot of your customers might be old school too. As part of our Small Business Management Course we have a Business Planning and Introduction to Small Business Marketing Course where you can...
We mentioned in a previous post that in business you’re always managing and taking risks and that part of managing and minimising these risks is planning. Planning is fundamental part of operating a business, which is why many of the subjects in our Small Business...
A little while ago, we published a post about goal setting, where we suggested that you start setting some short-term business goals that will help deliver your long-term business goals. The majority of people are familiar with long-term goal setting; it’s a...
We’ve talked about financial planning in previous posts and in our last post specifically covered sales forecasting. In our Small Business Management Course, you will learn, in much greater detail, how to create a financial plan for your business, but we thought...
We’ve published a series of posts on financial planning and now let’s take a look at the ongoing capital costs and ongoing running costs for a small business. We mentioned in a previous post that it’s vital for every small business to create a financial...
The legal aspect of any business, big or small, can be fairly daunting, but we cover this in our Small Business Management course. One part of the legal system of operating a business every business owner should be familiar with is contract law, or legal agreements....
For many people who decide to go into business, they often don’t give much thought to their finances beyond just wanting to turn a profit. What they fail to realise is that the key to turning a profit is creating a financial plan. A financial plan acts as a sort of...
Our Small Business Management Course is designed to give you everything you need to create a well thought out and researched business plan that you can use as a blueprint to achieve your goals. One of the topics is ‘Business Planning’ — you could just as...
On this blog we talk a lot about starting a new business — for instance, we recently covered where your can find financing for your start up and the little things you can do to ensure your success (like implementing structures and procedures). In our Small Business...
If you’ve recently completed our Small Business Management course, written your business plan (and had it reviewed) and feel ready to take the plunge and secure finance for your start-up, getting a bank loan might seem like the logical option, but sometimes it’s not....
Business Partnership Structure This is Part Two in our four-part series about the four most commonly used business structures in Australia — 1) sole trader, 2) partnerships, 3) companies and 4) discretionary rusts — to help you decide what...
Sole Trader Business Structure In the Establish Legal Risk and Management module of our Small Business Management Course we discuss business structures and the implications each of the four different structures can have on how you borrow money and even how much tax...
