As a small business owner, you’re required to wear many hats.
Your tasks could include planning and strategy, finance and accounting, legal, marketing and sales, customer service, HR and more. That’s a lot for one person to handle, especially when you’re still learning the ropes. If you need a hand, turn to the Small Business Development Corporation. We are here to help you learn new skills, overcome problems and keep your business on track.
Practical online workshops
Our practical workshops are designed to provide you with the skills and information you need to start and grow your business. They’re full of handy tips and key information and are a great way to build your business skills. We currently offer them free of charge, with online and in person options to suit your schedule.
Our workshops cover a range of business topics across seven key categories, and our delivered by presenters who are specialists in their field. If you are thinking about starting a business but are not sure where to begin, we recommend our Starting a Business workshop.
See our upcoming workshop dates.
Free one-to-one business support
When it comes to running your own business, it’s not a matter of ‘if’ problems will arise, but ‘when’. Every small business faces challenges, but successfully dealing with them as they arise can prevent bigger problems later. Our advisers can offer you sound advice and suggestions to manage your business issues. We also have dedicated dispute resolution and subcontractor support services available.
If you’re just starting your business, our free business advisory service can provide guidance on how to structure it, how to write a business plan, undertake market research, manage the financials, handle sales and marketing and much more.
Find out more about our business advisory services.
Online resources to support you
If self-learning is more of your thing, explore our range of free resources to help you develop your core business knowledge and keep up-to-date with the latest changes affecting small business.
This includes free financial management, business planning, marketing and debt recover templates as well as information guides to help you build your knowledge on about business partnerships, finance and insurance, leasing and more.
Explore our range of templates and tools.
Our SBDC Blog is regularly updated with information to help you navigate through the rapidly changing business landscape and provides a range of practical tips and advice to help you run your business. Blog topics include updates on marketing and promotions, managing risk, financial management and changes to regulations that may affect your business.
Visit the SBDC Blog and sign up for our monthly e-news for the latest news and tips.
Are you ready to turn to us?
To access any of our support services, call us on 133 140.
We are open from 8:30am to 4:30pm weekdays.
If you’d like to contact us out of hours, please leave us a message via live chat and one of our friendly advisers will get back to you.
