Can using emojis pose a risk to your business?
Emails, SMS, and instant messaging systems enable businesses to interact with customers, suppliers and partners quickly and easily. As a result, business communication has become much more informal than it was in the pre-digital era. [...]
Managing insurance risks in 2024
When you’re in business, you’re likely to experience your fair share of accidents, issues and upsets. The challenge is, they won’t always be the ones you’ve anticipated and planned for. Advancing technology and a changing [...]
insurance claims work for business owners
How do insurance claims work for business owners? Insurance is an investment most business owners hope they’ll never need to use. If you lodge a claim on one of your policies, understanding how the system [...]
Management Liability for Not-for-Profit Organisations
Management Liability for Not-for-Profit Organisations Australia has about 60,000 registered not-for-profit organisations, according to the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission (ACNC). There’s a huge diversity of types and areas covered including education, social welfare, health, [...]
How will AI impact small business insurance
How will AI impact small business insurance? Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the business world’s hottest trends right now. Since the launch of OpenAI’s Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer better known as ChatGPT in late [...]
Factoring Mother Nature Into Your Risk Strategy
Factoring Mother Nature Into Your SME’s Risk Strategy For business owners, Mother Nature’s risks can feel like a looming threat always on your horizon. Natural events are a matter of ‘when’, not ‘if’. Most can [...]
Five trends to boost your business
Five trends to boost your business in 2024 With inflation and rising interest rates continuing to take their toll, Australia’s economic outlook for the next 12 months is lacklustre. The Reserve Bank has predicted GDP will [...]
Your Business Insurance Guide 2024
How to help ensure your business is well insured in 2024 Insurance is essential for every Australian business. Designed to help you recover following an accident or incident, it's can arguably be one of your [...]
Prepare your business for bushfire season
Tools to help your business prepare for bushfire season There are many useful and official resources to help businesses prepare for summer bushfire season and other risks. It’s also essential to have the right insurance [...]
El Nino is here
El Nino is here – what does your business need to do? After enduring three ultra-wet summers, Australia is in for some extreme weather of a different kind. In September 2023, The Bureau of Meteorology [...]
Business interruption insurance
What to know about business interruption insurance this bushfire season The past few years of natural disasters, from bushfires to floods, have reminded many business owners about the importance of business interruption (BI) insurance. It's [...]
preparing for El Nino
How can farmers and primary producers help prepare for El Nino Australian farmers are all too familiar with the risks dry weather can bring, and with El Nino upon us, those risks have increased drastically. Unfortunately, [...]
how landlord insurance works
Understanding how landlord insurance works Property can be an excellent long-term investment, but it doesn’t come without risks. There can be a chance your tenants may default on the rent, steal items from the property [...]
AI and your small business
How Artificial Intelligence can help your small business Businesses of all shapes and sizes are starting to embrace artificial intelligence (AI) powered tools such as ChatGPT. Its uses are almost limitless, from writing marketing content [...]
Global Reinsurance
Is the global reinsurance landscape impacting your business? In its simplest terms, reinsurance is insurance for insurance companies. Unfortunately, global reinsurance is impacting businesses of all sizes following an increase in catastrophic events across Australia. [...]
‘Tis the season
‘Tis the season – how businesses can make the most of holiday spending The holidays are coming up and now is the time to start thinking about launching those promotions for Halloween, Black Friday, and Christmas. [...]
Get staff back in the office
How Australian businesses can get staff back in the office The pandemic saw many businesses embrace working from home and it quickly became the new norm. But with pandemic restrictions now scratched, more employers [...]
Insurance basics for Small Business
The insurance basics for your small business Business insurance can look complicated but once you understand the basics, you’ll find it much easier to talk to your broker about your needs. Here are five things [...]
Sell products and services online
How to start selling your products and services online Selling online can offer businesses the potential to reach a much wider audience. But it’s important to enhance your operations to make the most of online [...]
insurance guide for retail business
Your guide to insurance for a retail business Australia is home to around 130,000 retail trade businesses of all shapes and sizes. If yours is one of them, you’ll know that keeping sales ticking over and maintaining [...]
Insurance Cover For Healthcare
What insurance cover does a healthcare business usually need? If you run a healthcare business, you might know it comes with a range of challenges and risks. From physical therapy clinics to chiropractic offices, these [...]
Protect your business from an economic downturn
In today’s climate of uncertainty, small businesses are facing a number of challenges. Along with higher interest rates, cyber threats and new technologies such as artificial intelligence, there’s the looming risk of recession. Vincent Nair, [...]
thriving in FY24
A new financial year is a great opportunity to review how you approach your business finances. It can also be one of the best times to plan ahead and make changes to help improve your [...]
prepare your business for El Nino
All the data points to a hotter than-average summer, which means Aussie businesses should prepare for extreme weather during the warmer months. Here are some steps you can take to help prepare your small business, [...]