Business Advice

Kickboxers, second-hand car dealers, beekeepers and boaties are all about to enter the age of digital regulation in NSW.

Dickie Currer shares his reflections on the Tropical Innovation Festival, Australia’s largest regional innovation event, held in Cairns each year.

A more sophisticated and subtle form of convincing your customer to act is by creating a 'Fear of the Status Quo'. Bri Williams explains.

Major supermarkets will be banned from taking retribution against their small business suppliers and could find themselves subject to massive fines, after the federal government agreed to make the Food & Grocery Code of Conduct mandatory for the industry's biggest players.

Prices at IGA supermarkets will come under closer scrutiny in future taxpayer-funded research, Competition Minister Andrew Leigh says, after a new report on prices at Woolworths, Coles, and Aldi considered just four independent grocers.

Sole traders have long faced a tricky dilemma when it comes to taxes. Hiring an accountant can be simply too expensive. However, going solo and collating invoices, receipts, and deductions, to file an accurate return can be fraught with stress and challenges. 

If you don’t see that many Chemist Warehouse stores as you walk around each day, and you see even fewer Sigma, that could be because of the different storefront names they use, such as MyChemist, Amcal, Discount Drug Store and PharmaSave.

The 2024-2025 NSW budget pledges to pass on the energy bill rebate promised in this year's federal budget without extra rebates for SMEs.

Deep sales can change the way customers approach retailers, and build the perception that sooner or later, full-priced stock will face hefty discounts.

As EOFY approaches, it's vital for small business owners to fine-tune their financial strategies to maximise any available benefits or tax advantages and stay on top of the latest tax regulations.

When the core of the relationship is commercial, loyalty has limits. Because, despite the idea of give and take, the benefit favours the business, explains Michel Hogan.

Minister for Small Business Julie Collins has shied away from permanent changes to the instant asset write-off scheme, as small businesses endure another anxious wait for the cashflow-boosting measure to become law.