Business Support:

Your YDS Survive & Thrive Guide

There is plenty of support available from Grants, tools and the YDS network.

Read on to learn more and as always, any questions … please ask. We are here to help you, your team and your business.

Our team have helped many businesses successfully apply for the Business Basics Grant. The key is to ensure your application is well considered and meets ALL eligibility criteria.

We can help you with the following eligible activities and provide a quote within 48 hours.
We look forward to helping you with yours.

The Business Basics Grants now have 2 stages.

Stage 1

Registration Of Interest (ROI).

Stage 2

Successful registrants will THEN be asked to apply for the Grant in full.

NB. Stage 1: CLOSES 5 December, 2022

Business Basics Grant – Round 4 Details:
Support for businesses to increase core skills and adopt best business practises with a single up-front grant payment of $5,000 (excl. GST).

This support includes funded activities in 5 priorities:

1Training and coaching
2Website build or upgrades
3Professional business advice
4Strategic marketing services
5Business continuity and succession.

To read up on the grant details in full head to the DESBT page here.

Zoom Video Calling

Leading video conferencing tool. Simple and easy to add others to calls who are not familiar with it. https://zoom.us/

Google Hangouts for Video Calls

If you have a Gsuite or Gmail account then this is SUPER simple. Works great out Google Calendar and one touch to join. https://gsuite.google.com/intl/en_au/products/meet/

Microsoft Teams

For those of you on Office 365 this is the Video Tool for you. https://teams.microsoft.com/start

Teamwork - Project Management

We have been using this tool for years. Collaborating among a wide range of projects and skills. Accountable records and time keeping. Gold! https://www.teamwork.com/

Online Whiteboarding

Miro.com is a new tool for us. We love the templates and on touch devices we can all add to a diagram or make comments on work we are reviewing. https://miro.com/app/dashboard/

Aust Govt Treasury - Business Support

The Federal government response to supporting Australian businesses to manage cash flow and retain employees. https://treasury.gov.au/coronavirus/businesses

SME Guarantee Scheme

To support access to credit the government will go guarantor for 50% of new loans to eligible SMEs. Learn more.

Instant Asset Write Off

Immediate deduction of assets up to $150K, reverts to $1K after July 2020. Learn more here

Early Access To Super

Eligible individuals can access $10K of their super in FY20 and another $10K in FY21. Read more.

Top 10 tasks to strengthen your digital presence

01.

HELP YOUR COMMUNITY

What do you do that can help your community & customers at this time?

02.

WRITE CONTENT FOR SEO

Identify your target keywords and write a piece each week to build your traffic from search engines.

03.

UPDATE SALES COLLATERAL

Improve your proposals and materials you rely on to win business. Make sure you compete better in the recovery.

04.

REFRESH YOUR BRANDING

How long since your logo was refreshed? And are all your touch points consistent with your branding?

05.

MARKET RESEARCH

As you consider how to grow fast on the recovery, take a moment to consider your competition and any new opportunities.

06.

EXPAND YOUR OFFERING

How long since you launched a new product or service? Challenge yourself to have one new product before lock-out ends.

07.

NEW TEAM & PRODUCT PHOTOS

Get creative and have the team send in photos of themselves if they are front line staff. New product shots are great too.

08.

CUSTOMER TESTIMONIALS

Reach out to 5 of your best customers and get a testimonial from them. Use these on your website and sales proposals.

09.

GOOGLE MY BUSINESS

Verify and update your listing every 2 weeks to improve your local SEO rankings and mobile search results.

10.

BUILD A BUSINESS DASHBOARD

Do your analytics accurately reflect your business activity? Getting a reporting dashboard you can trust can be invaluable.