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Get PAID Faster Than Ever Before
Getting PAID is a challenge many business owners have – at all stages. As your business grows and expands, your needs will change, for many reasons. In this blog, we wanted to offer our tips for getting paid faster and reducing the need to chase your clients for...
Values & New Staff
If you are on the journey where you feel like you want to grow, then it’s time for you to decide what role you’re going to hire for, and then think about how you will find the right person or people to introduce into your business. When you’re a small business, it’s important to find people who are the right fit for the right roles.
All About Dat Biz’
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Actionable Tips for Better Record Keeping in Your Business
Repeat after me: “a shoebox alone is not a solution”. Ok, look. I know lots of business owners do this – and it’s not the end of the world if that’s where all your receipts are stored right now. I’ve got a few tips up my sleeve to help you keep on top of them – and...
The Customer Experience in Your Small Biz
What I want to say to you is that one thing that you can definitely do to grow your business is to think about the customer experience. A business’ purpose is to get and retain clients, right? As a business without customers, you will not be in business. So, getting new customers and retaining your existing customers should be pretty much the focus of all of your client interactions, and what these client interactions are called, collectively, is the customer experience.
Accounting Software: When Should I Get It?
In this day in age, there’s not really an excuse for a business owner not to have a system in place because there’s a lot of affordable options, from free to fancier paid options. I am a firm believer in when you’re starting a business, cash flow is limited and so any time you want to spend money it’s important to make sure that you’re getting a return on investment, right?
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GST, We Need To Talk
Actionable Tips for Better Record Keeping in Your Business
Repeat after me: “a shoebox alone is not a solution”. Ok, look. I know lots of business owners do this – and it’s not the end of the world if that’s where all your receipts are stored right now. I’ve got a few tips up my sleeve to help you keep on top of them – and...
Let’s Talk GST, Goods and Service Tax
The biggest question is ‘when do I have to register for GST?’. The textbook answer to that question is you must register when your business reaches sales of $75,000 in the course of 12 consecutive months, 12 rolling months. So this doesn’t necessarily mean a calendar year or a financial year, but 12 months in a row of trading. If you are projected or about to have reached $75,000 in sales you must register for GST. You must for GST. Sales are sales directly to customers. So that’s not including expenses or after expenses. It’s not profit. It’s turnover, customer invoices.
Staff, Staff, Staff
3 Truths About the Cost of Hiring Staff
You’ve made your decision: You’re going to hire your first or second employee. You might already have one but you’ve realised you may need to expand further. Did you know that there’s more cost to your business than just wages when hiring additional staff? Obvious things that people think about when they hire employees is, “I’m going to have to pay their salaries”. Salaries could be your hourly or annual rate for having someone on board.
Tips for Hiring Staff
Now, I think the first thing to be said is that not every business needs to scale to be successful outside of the owner and it’s your decision about how big you want your business to be.
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