How Invoice Finance Can Lead to Effective Time Management
Do you often find yourself wishing for more hours in the day to cross more tasks off your to-do list? Trust us – you’re not alone. It’s the main thing business owners nationwide wish they had more of: Time. When tasks from across all departments of your business begin to pile up, it can seem […]
Invoice Finance Can Help Businesses Going Through a Rough Patch
As a business owner, admitting that your business is struggling can be the hardest thing, but if your business really is in danger – or is going backwards in anyway – it’s essential that you assess the situation rationally. There is almost always a solution if you know where to look. Two of the key […]
Planning for Growth in a Wholesale Business
If you have established a wholesale business and intend to grow it to the next stage, you need to plan carefully in order to ensure you don’t endanger what you have built so far. That means getting suitable business finance in place and making sure that your supply chain, staff and systems can cope with […]
Manage Seasonal Fluctuations with Cash Flow Finance
If your business had exactly the same revenues and costs each month, managing cash flow would be easy. Of course this is never the case, and the fact sales tend to spike at certain times of year and dip during others is a major cause of working capital pressures for small and medium-sized businesses. Many […]
How to Protect Your SME from Cyberattack
Cybercrime is a bigger threat than ever, and small and medium enterprises are right in the firing line. This is because many SME owners don’t take cybersecurity seriously until it’s too late – even though a single breach can destroy the business they have worked so hard over the years to build. According to the […]
How Outsourcing Can Alleviate Stress During a Business’ Growth Phase
As a small business owner, the process of scaling up your company in order to grow can be stressful, and sometimes counter-productive. Hiring and training staff, buying more equipment and finding larger premises not only takes up a lot of your time and energy, they are also expensive. It can take years for these investments […]
5 Tips for Smooth Invoicing
Invoicing is a small but crucial step in the process of supplying a business customer with your goods or services, but unfortunately it is one that many businesses get wrong. Most of the time this just leads to occasional embarrassment, a missed relationship-building opportunity or minor delays in getting paid, However, bad invoicing practices also […]
5 Ways to Raise Cash for your Business (Without a Bank)
For too long, Australian SMEs needing funds to operate and grow have seen only one option: go to the bank and ask for a business loan. In the years following the financial crisis, many businesses saw that option narrow to zero: as the banks were forced to trim their lending, successful SMEs who didn’t have […]
How is Trump’s Trade War Affecting Australian Business?
The trade war between China and the USA has been building steadily since Donald Trump started imposing tariffs shortly after coming to office. Just yesterday it was reported that, the Blackstone co-founder and C.E.O. Steve Schwarzman who has tried to serve as a bridge between Washington and Beijing, given his close ties to both. But […]
Should Business Owners Worry About a Downturn?
With the Australian economy’s growth rate stalling this summer, many business owners are starting to worry that recession or at least a definite slowdown is just around the corner. This may or may not be the case as there are some encouraging signs that the latest GDP figures are just a dip – but either […]