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Creating a Risk Management Plan
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A risk management plan is essential to identify practical strategies to mitigate potential risks for your business.

Are your contracts fair?
24 April 2018
Blog
Did you know that your average Australian small business signs eight standard form contracts per year? This is why it’s so important to know your rights when entering into a standard form contract, or providing a contract to others. While protection for consumers entering into a standard form contract has existed for many years, in 2016 similar...
Digital Tools to Boost Productivity
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Discover how you can use low-cost digital applications to improve business productivity and efficiency.

Creating with Canva
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Confidently use Canva to create marketing collateral including a video, branded templates and a brochure that you can use to promote your business.

Using Canva
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This introductory level workshop will teach you how to create graphics for your social media, marketing materials and website using Canva.

Creating Content using ChatGPT
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Discover how you can utilise the power of AI in your business to help generate content and increase productivity.

Choosing the Right Website Platform
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This workshop will help you decide which website building platform is the best fit for your product or service based business.

Writing a Winning Tender
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Preparing a tender to secure a new contract or funding? Uncover all the tips and tactics to write a winning submission.

It pays to keep on top of wages
12 August 2019
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Accessing the free advisory services available from state and federal governments can help small business owners avoid the costly mistakes others have made when it comes to wages and underpayments. Celebrity chefs and national convenience store franchises have done much in the past few months to throw the issue of staff wages and underpayments into...
Don’t make a hash of #hashtags – and other social media tips
16 July 2019
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A friend is not just a friend these days. Your business can have friends, followers, fans and other supporters in your local area and far beyond with so many social media apps available. There’s no doubt social media can be the perfect advertisement for your business, build your search engine optimisation (SEO) and help to attract new customers. It...
Landlords and tenants urged to do the right thing
28 April 2020
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Our Small Business Commissioner, David Eaton, is calling on small business tenants and landlords to work together during this difficult time.
Automate your Marketing
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Utilise marketing automations to help streamline your marketing efforts and create efficiencies in your marketing processes.

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