Setting up your Product Sales Funnel
Workshop

Learn how to acquire new customers and nurture them through your sales funnel so they will buy your products.

People power adds up for this award-winning business
22 December 2021
Blog
Andrew Erkins first launched Digit to help small businesses in WA strengthen their financial management through bookkeeping and payroll support, and implement business apps and cashflow advisory. Eight years later, Andrew has grown the business into an award-winning enterprise, having won Bookkeeping Firm of the Year award at the 2021 Australian...
Navigating Australian Business Culture
Workshop

Build confidence doing business in Australia. Learn how to navigate common workplace and business practices, communicate effectively across cultures and build strong professional relationships.

Build Confidence and Overcome Self Doubt
Workshop

This empowering and practical workshop explores how self doubt and limiting beliefs can affect your business, with strategies to reframe negative thinking.

Understanding Business Financials
Workshop

If you're new to business, this workshop will show you how to develop ‘snapshot’ measures (key performance indicators) of your business so you can make sure it stays on track financially.

Digital Marketing Essentials
Workshop

This workshop examines a range of digital marketing options, including social media, email marketing and blogging, to help you understand what would work for your business.

How to evaluate an SEO provider
9 December 2022
Blog
Search engine optimisation (SEO) is an important part of any marketing strategy, but how do you know if you’re getting value for money when paying someone to do your SEO? It’s a common situation many small business owners find themselves in. You know that SEO plays an important part in making sure your website can be found by potential customers...
Free digital and design resources for small business owners
24 June 2026
Blog
Keen to hone your skills on Facebook, Google, Canva and more? Make use of these free online learning resources. Making time to learn new skills is an important part of being a small business owner. While we have a wide range of low cost business skills workshops on offer at the SBDC, you can also take advantage of self-paced lessons on the...
Starting a Business
Workshop

If you are thinking about starting a business, but don't know where to begin, this FREE workshop will take you through the essentials.

Fit out for the future: Masonex Building
17 November 2021
Blog
Julia ‘Jools’ Nesbitt is the Co-Director of Masonex Building, a family shop fitting business she runs with her husband Mick. The registered building business, offering retail shop fit-outs, de-fits and store maintenance, was busy and in demand before COVID affected their environment. “Before COVID came around, we always had plenty of work,” said...
How to use TikTok in your business
22 August 2023
Blog
It can be hard to stay on top of the rapidly changing developments in social media when you are running your business. We’ve put together this quick guide to one of the popular social platforms, TikTok, to help you out. Using social media can be a powerful way to build awareness of your business, connect with your customers and turn your online...
Behind the scenes: Digital Marketing Essentials
29 August 2018
Blog
Are you a small business owner feeling overwhelmed by social media? Me too! I got a degree in communications well before anybody had smartphones or Facebook friends, and the word “content” was mostly used to describe somebody who was pretty happy with their life. I’ve learned everything I know about digital marketing on-the-job over the course of...