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  Everything’s Coming Up Roses for Bianca After Successful Business Sale When the time came to sell her online business, Bianca Evans decided to get some professional help. However, when she saw how much some business brokers charged, she was shocked. “I did not want or need to spend $10,000-plus for assistance in selling such […]

  Does Your Business Meet Health & Safety Requirements? Because if you’re selling, it must! Workplace health and safety has never been a hotter topic. With increasing penalties and even jail time for those who fail to comply, it’s an issue that should be at the top of your list. WHS has changed over recent

  How AI can affect the sale of your Business… And Country Music! We’ve talked a lot in previous issues of this magazine about the pressing need for businesses to embrace technology. For some business owners, this requires a complete change of mindset. However, the consequences of not embracing change are even more serious, as

  Open for Business – Roy Morgan Survey It is estimated that 26% of Australian businesses have been affected by bushfires. A special Roy Morgan Snap SMS Survey of 1,308 Australian businesses reveals that, of those businesses, 7% have been affected ‘a great deal’, 10% have been ‘somewhat’ affected and 9% have been affected ‘a

  Are You in the Tourism Industry? Tourism businesses around the country may be eligible for help through the Morrison Government’s National Bushfire Recovery Fund. An initial $76 million tourism recovery package has been launched to protect jobs, small businesses and local economies by helping get tourists travelling across Australia again. Prime Minister Scott Morrison

  Scott Morrison Announces Government Help for Bushfire Victims Love him or hate him, it has to be said: the raft of measures announced by PM Scott Morrison to support small businesses affected by the bushfires is working. Willing to sacrifice a federal budget surplus, Morrison has pledged a $2 billion fire relief package. The package

  Free Legal Help for Bushfire-Affected Businesses NSW and Victorian businesses and residents affected by the recent devastating bushfires will be offered free legal help, with the setting up of the Disaster Response Legal Service NSW and Disaster Legal Help Victoria. In NSW, Attorney General Mark Speakman said Legal Aid NSW will operate the service,

Thinking of Selling Your Motel? If you’ve been thinking about selling your motel, now could be a very good time to make the first move, as we are seeing a positive change in the market. In the past, our high dollar discouraged many Australian residents from travelling domestically. These are, in fact, the travellers who

Adding Value to Australian Businesses ‘Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing’ – Oscar Wilde What does value mean to you? What does it mean to your customers? Is ‘value’ purely a financial consideration or is there more to it? We asked Australia’s leading social commentator, demographer and analyst Bernard

Franchising in Australia Think about where you’ve shopped recently; the chances are you’ve spent money with at least one franchise, probably more. Franchising is big business in Australia and for many, the only way to buy their own business. Likely contender for the title, Queen of Franchising, Janine Allis says “you are three times more