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Why buying a website is a smart business idea?

For Buyers

While every business needs a website, business owners rarely view buying a website as a realistic way to achieve their entrepreneurial goals, but they should.

Sector Spotlight: Catteries

Sector Guides

Cat-lovers are everywhere. From your next door neighbour to the thousands of instagramers posting pics of their cute/crazy/grumpy felines, you can’t escape devoted owners purring about their furry friends.

• How to buy a business and keep your new employees happy

  For Buyers

  Your employees are the lifeblood of your business and a happy workforce is a productive one. Here’s our advice on building strong relationships with your new team.

• How to change the name of a business

  How-To

  Thinking up the name is the fun part, but if you’re serious about changing it, you’ll also need to do some paperwork.

• 3 scenarios where franchising may be your best small business growth strategy

  For Buyers

  When considering growth strategies, small business owners may overlook franchising. Here are three solid reasons it may be the best option

• 9 Things You Need to Know Before Buying a Website

  For Buyers

  While there’s no doubt that buying and running an online business can be highly lucrative, there are also a number of potential pitfalls that you need to know

• Sector Spotlight: Coffee shops

  For Buyers

  Amid South Africa’s belated coffee boom, a new wave of café culture is brewing, making this an ideal time to break into the sector

• Why use a business broker?

  For Buyers

  One of Victoria's most influential business brokers, Cameron Ryan, extols the virtues of his trade...

• Invest in a growing industry, buy a garden centre today

  For Buyers

  Describing it as a ‘buoyant and growing market’ with ‘good growth in the last 10-15 years’ the HTA put its success down to a number of socio-economic changes.

• Buying a mobile home park versus an RV park

  Sector Guides

  Although the concept is similar, there are various differences between owning a mobile home-park and an RV park.

• What are the biggest threats to the hotel industry, and how can you fight them?

  For Buyers

  The hotel sector’s fortunes ebb and flow depending on several factors. Here are arguably the biggest threats to the industry and how to reduce your exposure

• The dos and don'ts of business plans

  Features

  Many business plans are poorly prepared and don't make sense. This may sound harsh but it's true

• Sector Spotlight: Boarding Kennels

  For Buyers

  In a dog-mad nation it’s an industry offering reliably strong and growing demand – but disruptive new business models have nevertheless made it an increasingly competitive environment

• How small businesses grow through strategic acquisition

  For Buyers

  Growth through acquisition isn’t just for mega-corporations. Small businesses can buy other businesses to fuel their own growth. Here’s how it works

• An introduction to buying a newsagency

  Sector Guides

  From suburban milk bars to city Lotto agents, the average Aussie newsagency retails a whole lot more than newspapers, lollies and milk.

• Working from home: How to stay productive and avoid procrastination

  Features

  Procrastination is the antithesis of productivity and most of us are guilty of it. Do you have enough self discipline to work from home?

• Sector spotlight: restaurants

  Sector Guides

  Can an entrepreneur reap rewards and joy in the restaurant industry? Absolutely.

• Targeting a business for sale

  For Buyers

  The most important elements of any successful purchase should always seem like common sense.

• Sector spotlight: restaurants

  Sector Guides

  Defying received wisdom, the restaurant sector performed surprisingly well during the downturn - and there's scope for growth ahead.

• How to run a fish and chip shop

  For Buyers

  A fish and chip shop can still be a veritable goldmine in the right location.