Having a website nowadays is not longer enough. If your website is not optimized for mobile devices, you are loosin
g sales. But before you spend the time and money optimizing your website for mobile devices, make sure it is good enough for desktops before spending the money elsewhere. Ask yourself these questions: Does my website load in less than 2 seconds? If the answer is no, you need to fix that before going any further. Research has shown that if a website takes longer than two minutes to load , more than half of your visitors leave without ever seeing if you have what they wanted. Is the content relevant? Good content can engage you potential customer and offer basic information they may need. To read more about this and other topics follow the links below.
5 Things Your Small Business Should Do This Summer
Summer is almost here! While a vacation is definitely recommended, don’t spend the whole summer relaxing.
Here are five things your small business should definitely do this summer:
1. Get a Mobile Website
Look around when you’re walking down the street. Almost every person is attached to a smartphone. About 40 percent of consumers prefer to use their phone to search for businesses and services on the internet. Is your website mobile-optimized? If not, why not? Make it easier for potential customers to find you. Mobile-optimize your website.
6 Small Business Tips from a Pet Mediator
Big businesses, like Walmart and Apple, seem to just roll along on the momentum of their success and power.
However, small businesses don’t have that luxury. You fight for every little success and every advantage to get ahead of the competition. Some small businesses are so small, most people have never heard of them before.
For example, have you heard of a pet mediator?
Debra Hamilton, Pet Mediator
Pet mediator. What will we come up with next?
What The Small Business Tax Break Actually Does
The immediate tax deduction for small business announced in the Federal Budget has been broadly welcomed, but what may have been missed is the fact that what the Government doesn’t collect now, it will collect later.
As part of the $5.5 billion small business package at the centre of its latest Budget, the Federal Government announced it would allow businesses with turnover less than $2 million to immediately deduct the cost of any individual asset purchased up to the value of $20,000, from Budget night through to the end of June 2017. The estimated cost of this accelerated depreciation measure to revenue is estimated at $1.75 billion over the four years of forward estimates.
But what should be noted about this measure is that it doesn’t change the eligibility for tax deductions of these assets; it simply changes how quickly a small business is able to receive the tax deduction.
Under the existing simplified depreciation rules for small business, an asset costing over $1000 would be depreciated at 15% for the first year, and 30% thereafter, until the taxable value of the asset pool is $1000 or less, at which point the full amount can be written off.
