When you’re ready to push your home business from the nest and into a shopfront, it’s an exciting time. It can also expose you to a whole new world of risk that could cripple your fledgling business before it can soar. Running a business from home is one thing, but taking the leap to [...]

Swedish-Australian ‘global futurist’ Anders Sorman-Nilsson says Amazon’s arrival down under will do more than just put some retailers out of business – it’ll change the way businesses across a wide range of industries operate. Many Australian businesses spent much of 2017 bracing themselves for the local launch of Amazon. While attention has overwhelmingly focused on the [...]

The sharing economy is rapidly becoming part of everyday life, especially among tech-savvy urbanites who are as comfortable booking an Uber on their smartphone as they are hailing a cab. But you don’t have to be a technology whizz or an inner-city dweller to succeed in the sharing economy, as many small business owners [...]

What you need to consider if you have a licensed venue. As your patrons begin to return to your venue, it important to make sure you are sticking to the rules required for all licensed premises regardless of a pandemic, otherwise a huge fine, or even worse, could be on its way. Here we [...]

Online businesses are charged with responsibilities above and beyond those of a traditional bricks and mortar store. Starting a retail business is, in many ways, easier today than it’s ever been. It’s perfectly possible, and indeed common, to start a retail business from home with nothing but a website and a small amount of [...]

Retailers are the life blood of the local economy, contributing around $262 billion to local GDP figures each year. Given how important retailers are to the health of the Australian economy, this means it’s essential for retailers to protect their livelihoods. We explore the top six risks facing retailers and what they can do to help [...]

The 2021 March floods that hit the eastern seaboard bring home how important it is to be prepared for a flood, especially if your business premises are located in an area that is prone to flooding. Steadfast Group’s executive general manager - corporate development, Martyn Thompson, says a visit to the local council’s web [...]

Imagine investing in a house or an apartment, only to find your tenant only pays the bond and a few weeks rent. This was the case with a couple of ‘toxic tenants’ from Western Australia, with a history of signing a lease and then working the system by staying at a property but not paying rent [...]

The local and international rules around data protection were tightened up in the first half of 2018. As businesses are discovering, it’s now a whole new ball game Though few appreciated it at the time, businesses enjoyed a long era of light-touch regulation around how they stored customers’ and employees’ data and what they [...]

Insurance fraud comes in a few different shapes and sizes. Some types of fraud are done on purpose, some types involve small lies that may seem like they won’t matter, and some are committed without the person committing them even realising. “The cost of insurance fraud each year is big — it’s [...]