The Weekly Round-up -20th April to 26th April 2018
Apr 27, 2018
In this week’s weekly round-up we cover ANZAC Day, how businesses can support charity, ways to increase sales and legality of the refund policy.
Lest We Forget
Employee entitlements for ANZAC Day
Are you working ANZAC Day or are you opening your store and staff working?
Make sure you understand employee entitlements for ANZAC Day.
New on the blog
7 Steps to Increase Your Sales
Ideally, you’ll run a business that continuously earns more sales as time goes on.
However, it doesn’t always work like that. You will usually hit a plateau. You might even go through a period of ups and downs.
To help your sales go up consistently, here are 7 techniques you can use: 7 Steps to Increase Your Sales
Is your refund policy legal?
Before you set up your refund policy or heaven forbid copy someone else’s refund policy make sure you’re up to date with your countries and states consumer protection laws.
If in doubt consult a lawyer so you have the correct information and don’t end up in hot water.
Read more from this post on Kotaku website; Here’s Precisely Why Valve Lost To The ACCC In Federal Court
The Secret to Being an Effective Location Free Entrepreneur
Location Free Entrepreneur is someone who can operate the business from ANYWHERE they want.
Do you enjoy travelling?
Maybe you want to start attending conferences?
Learn the secret on how you can do it in this post; The Secret to Being an Effective Location Free Entrepreneur
GST now applies to low value imported goods
“From 1 July 2018, GST will apply to sales of low value imported goods (valued at A$1,000 or less) to consumers in Australia.
These GST changes will also affect Australian GST-registered suppliers including Australian retailers who ‘drop ship’.”
Get more information on the Australian Taxation Office (ato) website; GST changes for Australian retailers who use drop shipping
