Whether you’re making tie dye shirts from your garage or quirky birthday cards that stand out, the online space of e-commerce should be utilised no matter what. The benefits of doing so are essentially limitless; as long as growth is sustained and built upon consistently. Here is a simple checklist of some of the basic things you should do, to build your business online. Social Media For a lot of starter businesses, Social media mediums like facebook and Instagram can be of huge benefit. Having a way to promote products and services (for free) and also track what people engage and what people ..read more

If you have ever heard the words efficiency and streamlining, you might be picturing a robot working in a factory doing a repetitive mundane task really quickly. This is what physical production automation is, where people are taken away and robots are put in doing the same job but at 10x the speed and at a 10th of the cost. But what if your small or starter business is more service based or you don’t have to produce anything in house? Is there still room for automation and such cost cutting? Definitely; there’s a high chance you are doing it already! In terms of accounting, sales and bookkeep ..read more

The classic rivalry, we all know the tension between people who use the mac and people who use windows, but for business is their even a competition? You would expect that windows would reign supreme in every industry due to apple being directed more towards personal use and windows purely ruling the areas for so long. But there is more to the picture; as technology and business as whole changes, so do companies processes and ‘norms’. By this, I mean that people aren’t simply running their business exactly how they did years ago. Where technology is concerned however that is a lot of the appli ..read more

For companies that are finding themselves growing more and more and are struggling with basing themselves in garages; It may be time to move out into a dedicated space. This is definitely one of the most noteworthy times for any business. It reinforces that the business is going somewhere and even makes it more professional. Also in terms of productivity, especially if you’re a sole trader, going to a physical location that is outside of a home environment has been proven to boost effectiveness; all due to the mindset gained when associating a space to work. But, what makes a business’s physic ..read more