Payday Super started 1 July 2026. Research puts the average Australian SME’s additional working capital requirement at over $124,000 — and 68% of businesses had made no preparation at all.
Nine levers move profit. Most Australian businesses work them in almost exactly the wrong order. Six questions to find out which one you should be on.
When it gets tight, 44% of Australian small businesses say letting someone go is their first move — ahead of trimming products, cutting software, or touching price. Here is what that costs, and what the national data says it has already done to the sector.
Most Australian businesses work the profit levers in almost exactly the wrong order. Here is the hierarchy, ranked by impact per unit of effort — and the evidence that the market has it inverted.
Every date in FY27 that changes what your business pays. Written for owners rather than accountants, and updated as legislation moves.
Enter your fleet size, annual kilometres and fuel consumption. See exactly what the 3 August 2026 excise restoration costs you per year.
The full 53.7c/L excise resumed on 3 August 2026 — 17.1c above July and 33.1c above April. Here is the cost per vehicle, the cost per fleet, and what to reprice before the quarter closes.
Marketing automation means software handling repetitive marketing and sales tasks so they happen consistently rather than when someone remembers. The useful applications are narrower and considerably more boring than the software marketing suggests, which is precisely why they work. What it actually covers Lead capture and routing so enquiries reach the right person immediately Automatic […]
Cost per lead figures quoted online are close to meaningless without context, because the same lead is worth twenty dollars to one business and two thousand to another. The useful exercise is working out what you can afford before looking at what anyone charges. Work out what a lead is worth to you first Take […]
Most checklists you will find are about design. The things that determine whether a business website earns its keep are largely invisible: whether someone can tell what you do, whether they can act, and whether you can tell what happened. Clarity, first Someone landing from a search should be able to say what you do, […]
