Victoria business hit with closures – what you need to know
In a drastic move to limit the spread of COVID-19, Victoria has taken the unprecedented step of mandating a curfew in metropolitan Melbourne, enforcing strict movement limitations and announcing a vast host of business closures. Regional Victoria (under Stage 3 restrictions) will have slightly different…
What does the minimum wage increase mean for your business?
On July 1, 2020, the Fair Work Commission announced an increase to the national minimum wage for Australian workers. The increase was rather modest at 1.75%. This means the previous minimum wage of $19.49 or $740.80 per week, has been increased to $19.84 per hour…
Reigniting your business’ engine
With a hesitant sense of normality starting to return to most of the Australian business landscape and restrictions on trade lifting, there’ll still be some heavy lifting to get your business humming again. But hum it can. How have businesses changed? It may be no…
The importance of agility: be ready to pivot.
Agility is the theme of the moment if you’re in the small business game. We’ve heard about the importance of resilience and the primacy of adaptation, but we should also be concentrating right now on a more long-term strategy to avoid being thrown around by…
6 ways to promote your online store
Once you’ve nailed down a bulletproof business plan and launched your online store (complete with a solid ecommerce platform) you’ll need to lay a tantalising trail of breadcrumbs to ensure your potential customers can find you. After all, “Hope is not a strategy” – Wise…
Indoor activities to help you deal with cabin fever
Cabin fever is no joke. Ever seen The Shining? We don’t want any ‘Here’s Johnny!’ moments going down in your living room. With a larger and larger percentage of Aussie workers confining themselves indoors and working from home, there’ll be considerations of wellbeing that go…
7 Ways to support small businesses during slow trade
Yes, we all feel it. Shelves are bare and economic realities are beginning to emerge. Small business survival is an important component to a healthy community and economy. Now more than ever, let’s lend them a hand shall we? Big supermarket chains like Coles will…
Stop avoiding these business tasks!
Running a business is time consuming and stressful. I bet you already knew this, eh? In the maelstrom of tasks you need to conquer to keep your business afloat, there will inevitably be those things you miss. Sometimes these seem unimportant, sometimes you simply forget…