Posts belonging to Category business
Posted by execva on May 10, 2011
I read a headline in the Australian Financial Review this morning that “Small Business Wins Tax Write-Off”! Woo hoo I thought. Finally something for small biz. Don’t count your chickens…. On further reading, what the budget actually says is that now I can claim up to $5000 instant write-off on capital purchases, including cars purchased [...]
Categories: business
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Tags: Australia, Australian Financial Review, Australian Labor Party, business, Labor Government, Small Business
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Posted by execva on April 27, 2011
It’s happened to me a few times now – I’ve had newsletters from various places turn up in my inbox and I think to myself “I don’t remember signing up for that”. Most of the time I put it down to my poor memory for these things and if I decide I don’t want to [...]
Categories: business, legislation
| Tags: Australia, business, business development, business marketing, E-mail address harvesting, Email address, Mailing list, Spam
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Posted by execva on October 19, 2010
Recently there was a discussion amongst VAs about GST (goods and services tax) and whether it should be assumed it’s included or not when negotiating rates with subcontractors. The main contractor VA got a bit of a shock when her subcontractor submitted an invoice for work including GST. So if you don’t charge GST should [...]
Categories: business
| Tags: gst, tax, va, virtual assistant
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Posted by execva on March 5, 2010
It’s happening again! Apparently now some UK companies are letting the team down by plagiarising content, taking business names of established businesses and their URLs – or something very close thereto – and swiping content. Regular readers will recall my October post about an international company who had plagiarised an article I wrote in 2004 [...]
Categories: business, outsourcing, plagiarism, virtual assistant
| Tags: business marketing, business services, outsourcing, plagiarism, va, virtual assistant, web content
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Posted by execva on January 14, 2010
I haven’t really noticed any change to my practice since the beginning of the economic downturn but I have heard a number of small business owners and Virtual Assistants of late saying that work is dropping off and/or they’ve ‘lost’ clients, blaming in part the economic downturn. This is a good reminder for us all [...]
Categories: business, business development, business start up, home based business, networking, online networking, social networking
| Tags: business, business building, business marketing, gec, global economic crisis, grow your business, marketing, networking, recession, social networking
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