When you are self-employed it is a fact of life that you are going to need to create and send invoices at some point. Your invoicing habits and the actual invoice itself can say a lot about you and your business so it’s important to get the basics right. An invoice is normally sent after [...]
Sending your first invoice can be a liberating experience, you are now ready for action and it’s the first step to getting payments through the door. As Mark Twain said, “The secret to getting ahead is getting started”, here are the four simple steps you need to send your first invoice using the Solo & [...]
As a solo business owner, time management is critical. Unfortunately, a lot of small business owners fall into the trap of wasting hours and hours on admin jobs that shouldn’t require such a big time investment. Tasks, like invoicing, insurance, and quoting, are necessary for all solo business owners, but most sole traders spend large [...]
Consider this, in 2014 there was $35 billion owed in unpaid taxes to the ATO and micro business was responsible for three quarters of it. Tax is one of the biggest stumbling blocks for sole traders and it can be one of the most crippling. Let me tell you about Sam to explain what happens [...]
Jim Rohn said it best “profit is better than wages”. My interpretation of that comment comes down to control, when you are in business for yourself you have a level of control over your income. Profit doesn’t need to be associated with large corporations handling huge sums of money. It could be the extra $200 [...]
The 5 simple steps you need to craft your business The demand for more flexible and personalised care is on the rise thanks to the introduction of the NDIS. As someone providing care or looking to start, this creates the opportunity for you to take control of your skills and experience that can make a [...]
What can you do to succeed in caring One of my favourite mottos is that ‘there has never been a better time to be in business’, which couldn’t be truer for self-employed care workers. So as a self-employed provider, here are three top tips to give you the competitive edge. The implementation of the [...]
Tips from successful entrepreneurs and business owners for sole traders. Going out on your own ain’t easy… so lucky for us, there are others who have already gone through it. We can take the “been there, done that” lessons from successful entrepreneurs, small business owners and sole traders and use it to our advantage. We’ve [...]
These 5 apps will help you work harder, better, faster, stronger. What do we want? More time. When do we want? Now. No matter how much we wish for a shift in the time-space continuum, resulting in freakishly long days, it’s not (as far as I know) going to happen. Unfortunately, there are only a [...]
When it comes to bringing home the bacon, it can get messy. As things get busier, work can start to spill over into your family life. There’s no denying a balance needs to be achieved between the two, otherwise family and fun ends up on the unreachable end of a lopsided seesaw. If you’re a [...]
