Meeting the Challenges of 2024

Peter Towers, Director of ESS BIZTOOLS and ESS Small Business together with Priscilla Bea Smith, Director of Cloud Nine Associates discuss the Challenges of 2024

ESS SMALL BUSINESS & Affiliates COVID-19 Survival Panel Webinar - Session 20

ESS SMALL BUSINESS & Affiliates COVID-19 Survival Panel Webinar - Session 19

ESS SMALL BUSINESS & Affiliates COVID-19 Survival Panel Webinar - Session 18

ESS SMALL BUSINESS & Affiliates COVID-19 Survival Panel Webinar - Session 17

ESS SMALL BUSINESS & Affiliates COVID-19 Survival Panel Webinar - Session 16

ESS SMALL BUSINESS & Affiliates COVID-19 Survival Panel Webinar - Session 15

ESS SMALL BUSINESS & Affiliates COVID-19 Survival Panel Webinar - Session 14

ESS SMALL BUSINESS & Affiliates COVID-19 Survival Panel Webinar - Session 13

ESS SMALL BUSINESS & Affiliates COVID-19 Survival Panel Webinar - Session 12

ESS SMALL BUSINESS & Affiliates COVID-19 Survival Panel Webinar - Session 11

ESS SMALL BUSINESS & Affiliates COVID-19 Survival Panel Webinar - Session 10

ESS SMALL BUSINESS & Affiliates COVID-19 Survival Panel Webinar - Session 9

ESS SMALL BUSINESS & Affiliates COVID-19 Survival Panel Webinar - Session 8

ESS SMALL BUSINESS & Affiliates COVID-19 Survival Panel Webinar - Session 7

ESS SMALL BUSINESS & Affiliates COVID-19 Survival Panel Webinar - Session 6

ESS SMALL BUSINESS & Affiliates COVID-19 Survival Panel Webinar - Session 5

ESS SMALL BUSINESS & Affiliates COVID-19 Survival Panel Webinar - Session 4

ESS SMALL BUSINESS & Affiliates COVID-19 Survival Panel Webinar - Session 3

ESS SMALL BUSINESS & Affiliates COVID-19 Survival Panel Webinar - Session 2

ESS SMALL BUSINESS & Affiliates COVID-19 Survival Panel Webinar - Session 1

Understanding the Government's Stimulus Package As It Relates to SMEs

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COVID-19 Survival for SMEse

How Can My Businesss Survive

• PowerPoint slides

Sound Talent Recruitment Helps Add Value

• PowerPoint slides

Sound Talent Recruitment Helps Add Value

• PowerPoint slides

"Does Your Strategy Create Value?"

• PowerPoint slides

Management Accounts Give You More Information – Why Not Ask For Them?

• PowerPoint slides

Help Me Run A Better Business

• PowerPoint slides

Crowd Sourced Funding Equity Raising from a Small Business/Medium Sized Enterprises Viewpoint for Directors, Managers and Shareholders

• PowerPoint slides

Female Based Company Shows the Way

Experts Endorse Crowd Sourced Funding

• PowerPoint slides

 Potential of All Female Companies Under Estimated

• PowerPoint slides
• Executive Summary

An Opportunity to Finance Your Business

• Executive Summary 
• PowerPoint slides

CSF What's All The Excitement About for Business People?

ESS Small Business - Crowd Sourced Funding

Grant Identifier

ESS Small Business Webinar - "World's Worst Title for Aussie SMEs"
Peter Towers gives an overview of the special article relative to debtors' management.

Peter Towers will give an overview of the Early Stage Innovation Company and the benefits of this new legislation to small/medium enterprise operators.

ESIC Opportunities for SMEs and Investors

The Early Stage Innovation Company (ESIC) legislation has commenced on 1st July 2016.

ESIC was developed to create an opportunity for smaller companies to be able to get themselves into an investment readiness status, whereby they can raise capital to fulfil their business’ dreams.

What’s in it for investors?

This webinar will provide an overview of the benefits that investors will gain through ESICs.  This webinar will also point out items that investors need to know in order to be able to invest on ESICs.

Will you have an ESIC Story?

The Early Stage Innovation Company (ESIC) is a wonderful opportunity to create new income streams. The Prime Minister expects thousands of companies to avail themselves of the opportunity to use the ESIC classification, which benefits businesses, investors and accountants/advisors.

Do you wish to have an ESIC story?

This webinar will provide an overview of how ESIC can produce new income streams, steps you need to take and how accountants/advisors can help you achieve the “ESIC story”.

Qualifying as an ESIC

This webinar will provide an overview on how to identify whether your company is qualified as an Early Stage Innovation Company (ESIC).

Early Stage Innovation Company - Self-Assessment - Principles Based Test

The Australian government introduced a new type of company known as an Early Stage Innovation Company (ESIC) from 1st July 2016.

In this webinar, Peter Towers explains the assessment process that a company must complete, if it is to be classified as an "ESIC".

The "investment readiness" and "investment pitches" processes are also discussed.  Investors obtain significant taxation benefits from investing in an ESIC and these are reviewed in the webinar.

If your company has developed a new product, process, service etc., and you would like to raise capital for the commercialisation process, this is an essential webinar for you to watch.

Grants are Available to Assist your Business

There are a number of government grants available to small/medium enterprises, to help and encourage them to grow. Whether it be exporting to other countries, becoming "investment ready", improving the skills within staff or assistance with recovery from natural disaster.

This webinar will provide an overview of a few grants currently available to small/medium enterprises.  This webinar will also provide some information on the resources available to help you identify the grants for which you’re eligible and to guide you through the application process.

Innovation Companies Capital Raising for Businesses

The Federal government has released the “Innovation Statement”, which provides more opportunities for businesses to raise capital.  One of these opportunities are innovation companies, which is going to have special benefits from investors to obtain a taxation rebate on their investments, as well as a Capital Gains Tax holiday.

This webinar will show how you could become investment ready and encourage and seize the opportunity that the “Innovation Statement” is providing businesses.  This webinar will also provide the resources to which you could refer, to assist you to this investment readiness journey.

This webinar features the following presenters:

Peter Towers	Michael Murtagh	Rick McElhinney	Peter Milla
Managing Director	Business Angels Group	Founders Forum	Managing Director
ESS Small Business			Bistorque Pty Ltd

Improving Debtors' Management

An effective debtors’ management system is vital for keeping a business afloat and will help with promptly generating the income a business requires.

This webinar will provide some helpful tips on how you can improve your debtors’ management.  This webinar will also provide some resources available for small/medium enterprises.

Planning for Success

For a business to be successful, you need to have an in-depth look at where you're business is currently at and where it's heading, in order to determine the areas of improvement.

This webinar will look at the different aspects of a business to examine and what you can do to make improvements, as part of planning for your business' success.

A Simple Recipe for SMEs to Effectively Use Online

Most businesses will benefit from having an online presence. However, there are many ways to utilise the internet and selecting the approach that is suitable for your business might seem complex and overwhelming.

As the “digital world” continues to grow at an exponential rate and is becoming more complex, it’s important to find the right approach that will provide the desired results.

This webinar will show you simple ways to utilise the internet which will provide your business the necessary exposure and, in turn, generate more customers and sales that will help your business grow.

This webinar features the following presenters:

Peter Towers	David Twigg
Managing Director	Managing Director
ESS Small Business	Online Marketing Consultants

Legal Essentials for Australian Small Businesses

Most aspects of running a small/medium enterprise involve legal issues of some kind.  Just as it is with large businesses, it's important that small/medium enterprises ensure that they are legally compliant as they establish, run and even hand over their business.  Failure to do so could result in very stressful, time consuming and very costly legal problems, which is why it's vital for small/medium enterprises to obtain the legal service that is appropriate for their business.

This webinar provides an overview of the types of legal services that are available for small/medium enterprises.  This webinar will also explain the importance of having the right legal advice for your business.

This webinar features the following presenters:

Peter Towers	Dean Woodbridge
Managing Director	Executive Lawyer
ESS Small Business	Clinch Long Letherbarrow Lawyers

How does a BDM Add Value to a Business?

The main point of running a business is to generate income. To achieve that, a business would need to generate customers, leads and clients. This is where a Business Development Manager (BDM) could help.

The main role of a BDM is to generate leads and develop clientele for your business as well as developing an effective marketing plan to give your business the required "exposure".

This webinar focuses on BDMs and how they could build value to your business.

This webinar features the following presenters:

Peter Towers	Moira Verheijen
Managing Director	Relationship Manager
ESS Small Business	Corporate Connectors

Sending Cards - a Great Marketing Tool

Electronic communications and online marketing are potentially sending the traditional “snail mail” method into decline.  However, nothing else shows “you care” better than having tangible material in your customer’s hand, such as a greeting card.

This webinar provides an overview on how you can utilise greeting cards as an effective marketing tool for your business.  This webinar will also provide some useful resources available.

This webinar features the following presenters:

Peter Towers	George McIntosh
Managing Director	Independent Distributor
ESS Small Business	SendOutCards

Getting Social Media Working for your Business

Marketing your business online, particularly via social media, is a proven and cost-effective way to add exposure to your business and develop your business’ credibility in your ideal target market.  Social media is a great way to attract the customer you’re after and gain referrals.  However, with the increasing number of social media platforms available, it’s important to know and understand how marketing online works and how to get the best results for the least amount of time and money.

Presented by Tracy Raiteri of Townsville Social Media, this webinar provides some useful information on how to effectively utilise social media to improve your business.

Insurance for SMEs

A properly constructed insurance portfolio is vital for the stability of any business.  There are numerous types of insurance policies available and it’s fair to say that, if a business insured itself for every possible contingency, it would be liable for a considerable premium.

This webinar provides an overview of identifying your business risks and deciding what to insure.  This webinar will also provide some useful resources to help you make the important decision of selecting appropriate insurance for your business.

This webinar features the following presenters:

Peter Towers	Darren Milne	Andrew Grogan
Managing Director	CEO	Account Manager
ESS Small Business	Milne Alexander	Milne Alexander

Loans for SMEs

Obtaining a loan has become part of business activity – whether you need new plant and equipment, to renovate your premises or are looking at purchasing a new office or branch.  Obtaining loans can be challenging, with small business operators being subject to tightened lending conditions for which they were not prepared.

This webinar looks at a range of assistance available for small/medium enterprises to enable them to obtain the right loan for their business’ requirements.

This webinar features the following presenters:

Peter Towers	Robert Foster
Managing Director	Home Loans Accredited Mortgage Consultant
ESS Small Business	Homeloans Ltd

Introduction to Benchmarking

Analysing benchmarks is a great way for any business to have a clear understanding of what’s occurring in their business and then be able to determine realistic strategies to improve their business’ performance.

This webinar provides an introduction to benchmarking and how an effective benchmarking system can help improve your business’ performance.

This webinar features the following presenters:

Peter Towers	Vince Keogh
Managing Director	Head of Product
ESS Small Business	Benchmarking.com.au

Legal Issues Affecting SMEs

There are many areas in which the law can affect the operation of a business.  Many small/medium enterprises receive assistance with business improvements from various consultants.  However, many small/medium enterprises overlook having a meeting with their commercial solicitor to ascertain whether their business is complying with the laws that apply to their business operations.

This webinar provides an overview of the legal issues that are pertinent to small businesses.

This webinar features the following presenters:

Peter Towers	Matthew Karakoulakis
Managing Director	Principal Solicitor
ESS Small Business	AMK Law

Budgets and Cashflow Forecasts

Budgets and cashflow forecasts are one of the most important aspects of running a successful small business.  They give businesses a detailed "map" of what's likely to occur in the future and measure actual performance of the cashflow against what was budgeted.

This webinar looks at how you can develop an effective budgets and cashflow forecasts system and some useful resources that are available.

This webinar features the following presenters:

Peter Towers	Paul Barnaby
Managing Director	Regional Integration Consultant - Asia Pacific
ESS Small Business	PlanGuru

Human Resources Issues for SMEs

Business success involves building an excellent team and making individuals feel appreciated and included in communications and discussions.  Excellent businesses have well-established human resources management in place.

This webinar provides an overview of effective human resources management, including:

• staff recruitment selection
• training and performance reviews
• exit interviews
• regular communication

This webinar features the following presenters:

Peter Towers	Steve Owen
Managing Director	HR Performance Coach
ESS Small Business	On The Level HR

Bookkeeping Assistance for SMEs

Accurate accounting records and efficient accounting management is one of the most important aspects of running a business.  As a small business operator, keeping accounts in check could be very challenging.

This webinar provides an overview of how a good bookkeeping assistance will save you time and money, which will allow you to focus more on running your business.

This webinar features the following presenters:

Peter Towers	John Cruse
Managing Director	General Manager
ESS Small Business	Bookkeeping Central