Zoom In Business Issue 2

ISSUE 2

Tax Time

Rethink Your Tax Needs

MONEY And You

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Contributors: Anthony Dare, Kirsten Gadsby, Kellie Ackerman, Brendan Maskey, Kate Hagenson, Deb Porteous Front Cover Photograph: Neil Chan info@freetimeaperture.com

Disclaimer All material that appears in this edition of Zoom in Business is printed at the discretion of the publishers, but does not necessarily reflect the opinions of the publishers.

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Readers are advised to always use their discretion in using any product, service or approach either advertised or written about in Zoom in Business. The publishers can take no responsibility for individual outcomes of any such choice and readers should always be guided by their own business professionals.

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peak to many Townsville business owners and they will admit that the past financial year of economic downturn has taught them more about how to run their businesses than any other period.

The prevailing pessimism and uncertainty has forced many operators in our region to assess their business profitability and embrace efficiencies to ensure they stay afloat. To add to this impasse, as we go to print, a new Prime Minister has been ‘switched’ on our behalf to evoke confidence in our country. Are you convinced?

It’s already clear, we’re on a different road this financial year and those to come. I’m sure that

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the new realities our commercial sector is experiencing have redefined the world of business in the North - but especially the culture of small business in Townsville.

In this second issue of Zoom in Business: Money and You, we celebrate our economy and focus on current topics from business to business. With tax being on the top of everyone’s list at the moment, local Accountant and Tax expert, Deb Porteous (cover page) opens by sharing some important business tax tips to help you this financial year. Then, Kate Hagenson’s column on “Converting Theory to Practice” is a fun read, and reminds us that networking

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involves much more than just turning up! Also, we thank Brenden Maskey (BCK Lawyers) for his article on Trademarking.

A huge thanks to our regular columnists, Kellie Ackerman (Jasper Design) and Anthony Dare (BIZRICH) along with our Zoom in Business ghost writers who introduce some outstanding stories on local business owners and their services, including the all-new “Zoom in on...” feature article on Sheree Bateman, owner of Nothing But Chocolate (simply mouth-watering!).

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by Deb Porteous, Tax Defence

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t’s tax time and Deb Porteous from Tax Defence lends some helpful hints on reducing unwanted debt on your tax return this financial year.

The basic tax management strategies are often neglected or overlooked and the benefits can be quite significant and there can be some great tax savings to reap. The key to maximising your refund or reducing your debt comes down to knowing your options and acting early to avoid last minute problems.

Key Strategies

for all groups of taxpayers

from individuals to businesses • Bringing forward deductions to this income year • Deferring income until the 2010/2011 financial year • Taking advantages of opportunities • Being organised and having knowledge is the key to maximising claims

What is benchmarking?

Small business benchmarks basically provide a snapshot of what, on average is happening in businesses in a particular industry.

The different types of benchmarking for the small business are: Performance Benchmarks - are based on information provided to the ATO from small businesses reporting on income tax returns and business activity statements. These can be used to enable taxpayers to work out whether or not they fall within the average for their industry.

Input Benchmarks - are based on information provided to the ATO by industry participants and trade associations and basically allow taxpayers to calculate an expected range of

income based on the labour and the materials they use.

Small business benchmarks are designed to help business meet their tax obligations by enabling them to track their performance against the rest of their industry.

The ATO have benchmarked the key business ratios for high medium and low turnover businesses for more than 100 industries. By comparing your

business to the benchmarks for your industry, you can assess your business’s performance.

We also use benchmarks to identify businesses that may be avoiding their tax obligations by not reporting some or all of their income.

By developing benchmarks for small businesses the ATO is making it clear about what it expects from businesses in an

“...basic tax management strategies are often neglected or overlooked [but] the benefits can be quite significant...” industry. This makes it harder for dishonest operators to get away with not reporting cash income

There are five ratios available to help taxpayers compare and check their business performance Performance Benchmark Ratio

Calculation of ratio (%)

1. The cost of goods sold to turnover

Cost of goods sold / turnover x 100

2. Labour to turnover

Labour costs / turnover x 100

3. Rent to turnover

Rent / turnover x 100

4. GST – free sales to turnover

GST – free sales / turnover x 100

5. Motor vehicle expenses to turnover

Motor vehicle expenses / turnover x 100

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ATO Audit Hot Spots for business taxpayers in 2010

On the 6 August 2009, the ATO released its compliance program for the 2010 income year.

This document foreshadows the ATO’s audit hit list.

This information is extremely valuable because taxpayers operating in industries under the microscope can prepare for a possible ATO audit.

As part of the ATO’s risk based compliance model, the ATO is increasing the use of data matching and small business benchmarking. The cash economy is a focus along with companies using prior year losses, the general business tax break and employer obligations including PAYG withholding and superannuation guarantee responsibilities.

– and makes it fairer for everyone else.

Businesses reporting outside the benchmarks may attract the ATO’s attention. There may be good reasons for this disparity, but taxpayers who find they are outside the benchmarks for their industry should determine whether they have correctly recorded and reported their income and deductions.

Categories include: • building and construction trade services • education, training, recreation and

support services • food services • health care and personal services • manufacturing • professional, scientific and technical services • retail trade • transport, postal and warehousing • other services Further information regarding the small business benchmarks can be accessed, by industry from the ATO website at: www.ato.gov.au/businesses.

Visit Deb at Annandale Central centre court, Cnr MacArthur Drive & University Road, Annandale from July to October this year for your tax return.

Converting theory to practice

by Kate Hagenson

We go to school and university to prepare us for “the real world”, but does it really get us ready?

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am in my final year of a Bachelor of Business, majoring in Management and Entrepreneurship after starting university a couple of years ago. What job/career/ position I want after I finish my degree seems to change with each new subject I take on.

It’s a professional dilemma that I have been willingly encouraged to investigate.

Over the past two months, I was given the project of converting theory to practice by participating in weekly morning breakfasts, monthly speed networking, online networking and special events created for Townsville professionals. At each

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of these events, I have been encouraged to ‘network’ with total strangers and I can tell you that University does not prepare you for this awkward, yet very common occasion.

Through the nerves and jitters, I managed to stand up, introduce and promote myself to these groups – all with a surprisingly positive result. A terrific complement this activity of networking creates is where members often meet outside this circle, on their own time, and build their own “one-to-one” relationship with each other. Out of all of the groups, I found that the most proactive medium

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Networking is easy to learn about, and I can list the benefits straight out of a text book, but converting theory into practice was a little more difficult. Although overall it was a very rewarding experience.

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Over the last twelve months, the Best Home Loans team has been introducing the new Wealth Today system into their scope of services, providing clients with a combined lending and financial management service.

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‘Making your mark’

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Why bother registering your brand name as trade mark? Here are 5 good reasons to protect and improve the intellectual property attached to your business.

1. Limited Protection Registering your business name with the Office of Fair Trading provides only very limited protection.

All of the goodwill you have developed in your trading name, logo, advertising, slogans, and possibly even the ‘look’ of your business can only be properly protected from unauthorised use by registering your trading name, logos or slogans as trade marks.

2. Rip offs Have you ever stopped to think how many people may be interested in ripping off your trading name, logos or slogans?

Competing businesses, especially when starting out, frequently attempt to ‘spring’ off the reputation of established businesses by creating a business with similar appearances, trading names, slogans or logos. Also, it is not uncommon for previous employees or ex-business partners to copy the key elements of your advertising, logo or trading name to compete against you. If you have a recognizable trading name, logo or slogan, the list of potential copycats is endless.

3. Copy cats What happens if a copycat business pops up?

Although you may see the copycat as an unrelated inferior business, your customers may be mislead into believing that you are involved in or somehow connected to that business, or support their practices. You may lose customers to that business, or suffer injury to your reputation because of poor customer service or inferior product. It will be more difficult, and far more expensive, to stop a copycat business from trading off your hard earned reputation if you do not have your trading name, logos and slogans registered as trade marks. Trade mark registration can provide you with nation-wide protection. If appropriate, international registration can also be obtained.

4. Goodwill A large portion of the value of your business consists of the goodwill you have developed over time. All of that effort and money spent on advertising, logos, slogans, signage, etc. has created intellectual property that should be protected.

A potential purchaser of, or financier to your business may expect that your valuable goodwill is protected and supported by a registered trade mark(s). The value of your business can be closely

linked to the level of protection afforded to your intellectual property. Registering a trade mark is an important investment in the overall value of your business.

5. Classes Registering a trade mark is not a task to be taken lightly. You must give proper consideration in selecting the ‘classes’ of goods and services to which your mark will apply. There are over 40 classes of good and services. Within each class, you must properly describe the applicable goods and services to which your trade mark will apply. Getting this process wrong can result in inadequate protection and possibly expensive litigation. The right intellectual property lawyer will help you to ensure that you get the registration of your trade mark right the first time. That lawyer should advise you on other steps you can take to ensure that the value of your intellectual property is maximized and protected.

Boulton Cleary & Kern Lawyers understand what is required to protect and maximize the value of your intellectual property, whether it be by trade mark, patent or registered design. Call BCK on 4772 9200 to discuss your business’ needs.

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It’s all about focus

with Adam McKee, Focus Realty

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s Australians, we all use a real estate agent to buy, lease or sell property at some stage of our lives and it’s great to know that choosing a quality Real Estate Agent in Townsville does not have to be another difficult decision to make after meeting Adam McKee from Focus Realty.

With many years of sales experience and a passion for Townsville Real Estate, Principal Adam McKee is dedicated to real estate best practice and innovation ensuring that his clients receive professional, knowledgeable and courteous service. By combining local knowledge, Adam now enjoys a reputation as the local real estate marketing expert that clients, friends and family recommend with confidence.

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it means I should be able to anticipate problems and prevent them from occurring.

It also means my clients are relatively assured that over the years I have learned how to handle just about any type of potential difficulty with ease.”

Adam has the commitment to manage your property or find the highest possible sale price in the shortest amount of time, encouraging buyers to make an offer as soon as they love your home.

Located on Ross River Road, just above True Value Hardware, Focus Realty will give you a refreshingly different perspective to real estate and an unprecedented exclusive service.

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here has never been a more important time to connect with your customers and right here in Townsville, The Marketing Factory is connecting more people, with more customers and creating bigger brands in a way like never before.

Marissa Candy, OwnerDirector, has been actively working in and researching the marketplace for more than a decade. Along with her growing team, Marissa offers and knows how to get the most effective solutions for businesses at some of the most competitive rates in town.

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markets for businesses to focus on efficient and effective determine the segments that marketing that can also be will seek specific products and/ measured,” Marissa explains. or services. “Your target market The Marketing Factory’s awardneeds to be large enough and winning success is based on the sustainable to be able to support ability to clearly focus, create your business and and implement fresh “We focus brand and we identify marketing strategies on efficient and manage this for for their clients and effective our clients better than – all in one handy location. marketing that anyone in town”.

Marissa and her “There are many can also be team have specifically ways we research the measured..” been concentrating marketplace for our on customers and what they clients and they are generally need (or want). “Customers inexpensive. The more we can are the essence of marketing – discover, the greater advantage they are the source of sales and our clients have over their profits,” she explains. competitors and sets a good The Marketing Factory also foundation for building a can create strategic marketing successful business for them,” plans to enable businesses to Marissa explains. identify how to ‘stand out’ Another important service in the market. Marissa says The Marketing Factory offers that marketing a business is the ability to identify target

effectively here in Townsville is an integral part of small business management and The Marketing Factory are experts at generating new business for their clients, encouraging them to spend their marketing dollars wisely and within budget.

“There’s no doubt that Townsville businesses have started to look more thoroughly at their return on investment in marketing and embraced our cost-effective forms of promoting themselves over the past year.” Marissa says. “We are committed to delivering a truly supreme business branding service, conveniently managed with one account manager for our client’s.”

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Pick a

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by Kellie Ackerman Serif vs Sans Serif Last issue I mentioned serif and sans serif fonts.

These are the two major font categories, and the difference is quite simple.

A serif is the tiny

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structure on the end of some letters in a typeface.

They originated from the flair of the brush stroke in old script, but it is common belief today that they are a useful visual tool when reading large blocks of text.

For this reason they are most often used in lengthy texts, while sans serif fonts are used for headlines and shorter pieces.

A serif font also has a more formal appearance.

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no serifs

Most serif fonts have thick and thin lines, while san serif fonts, (from the French ‘sans’ which means ‘without’) are cleaner bulkier fonts and are more readable on a computer screen where the constraints of screen resolution can make small serifs and thin lines hard to see.

Sans serif fonts are also a good choice for logos and signage because they are clean and more versatile.

So keep in mind what medium your text will end up in when you next pick a font.

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by Anthony Dare

ALL of my clients will tell you I have a healthy left-brained passion and respect for the numbers in any business, especially that of marketing numbers. Numbers give you the power to make profitable decisions.

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et’s face it, Christmas is almost here, and I have no doubt I will see an Easter egg on the shelf of my grocery store any day now. What am I trying to say?

The same thing you say to your fellow workers everyday around the water fountain days are getting shorter and the years seem to be flying by.

SLOW DOWN! The whistle has blown for the new financial year, time to celebrate! I look forward to seeing accounting buddies around September

when they emerge from their social hibernation, and annoy them with light repartee for not getting my just desserts back from Canberra.

To ensure we ring out the marketing sponge of every last drop, we must be fully conversant with our Return On Marketing Investment or ROMI. Testing and measuring is just as important as doing. I can guarantee Christmas will come early. It may even be Christmas in July!

So after you have picked the low hanging fruit, the real work starts - you’ll need the ladder!

Let’s look at some simple steps to get you testing and measuring your marketing investment.

When we talk about numerics, remember what your bank account is measured in, and it ain’t goodwill!

Test and measure as a matter of routine, you will save money, budget better, negotiate better and you will find that Christmas in July actually has a purpose!

Many happy returns!

1. Start asking people where they heard about you, found you, attracted them to you. You will usually find one sector stands out.

4. Check the conversion rate. Everyone in business sells, and the conversion rate tells us how good we are at it.

2. Prune, modify, and increase. Go through the numbers with each element of marketing that you are currently employing. Remember the true test of any marketing strategy, campaign, or chicken suit hire is the ability for the action to pay for itself.

CONVERSION = enquiries that become sales.

3. Keep going! Why stop now? You’re killing it!

Look, you have made good money here, it’s working! The local campaign engages people that want my services! That’s great, keep it going.

If, on the other hand, the sword swallower did not impress the kids and the wife at Stockland, especially after that sneeze - don’t hire him again.

The message wasn’t right, and you’ll save time on trauma suits.

If numbers are down here, you should consider investing in professional development, i.e coaching, sales techniques and training.

A small incremental change can have huge effects on a healthy bottom line.

5. Consolidate. Work on some old branches, they may yield some fruit.

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ntil putting “pen to paper” in this article (excuse the pun), I didn’t fully appreciate how integral office supplies are in my everyday life.

Everything I’m looking at on my desk is classified as “office supplies” and Office Choice Pen to Paper on Hugh Ryan Drive, Garbutt has delivered most of them to my door.

At the beginning of the school year, I buy office supplies from Pen to Paper who deliver them to my home. What is this article being written on? Office supplies from Pen to Paper delivered to my business.

“Office supplies are integral in anyone and everyone’s life,” owner Berry Carter says. “Take the time to look at your desk – paper, pen, pencil, highlighter,

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Nothing But Chocolate

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xcellence comes in many forms and our “Zoom In On” business focus this quarter introduces us to Nothing But Chocolate Townsville’s Handmade Belgian Chocolate House and the driving passion of its creator, Sheree Bateman.

When talking to Sheree

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Sheree’s journey into Belgian Chocolate began a mere 6 years ago as an interest in fine chocolate which has now spread into a continually evolving and burgeoning enterprise in just the first year of trading. The answer to the question is YES! She does eat her chocolate every day, “quality not quantity is the key to pure enjoyment..Also quality control is a great excuse!”

The product line entails custom-branded chocolates, gift boxes, gourmet gift baskets, even a simple thankyou box.

Sheree takes great pride in special orders which is a unique point of difference; the journey does not stop with the gift of giving, it is only beginning.

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One-on-One Professional Business Training is a Registered Training Organisation and offers a wide range of training fields. Rarely does a Professional Training opportunity of this calibre come along in Townsville. Priced for immediate sale.

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$215,000 +SAV

$130,000 WIWO

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Kirsten Gadsby 0409 408 120

Kirsten Gadsby 0409 408 120

IT Consulting Service

Kirsten Gadsby 0409 408 120

Brumby’s Rising Sun

Ecowash

This successful IT business provides a full support, training and implementation service for a variety of IT solutions including cash registers and POS. This investment opportunity would ideally suit an individual or partners.

This busy Brumby’s Bakery Franchise is situated in the popular Rising Sun Shopping Centre, just 5 minutes from Townsville’s City Heart and nestled in the middle of 4 adjoining suburbs, schools and located at the beginning of Townsville’s motel strip.

This franchise is No. 3 in BRW’s annual list of Australia’s fastest growing franchises.

If you’re looking for a business here in Townsville to walk in and make plenty of $$$, then this is for you.

$280,000 +SAV

$380,000 +SAV

$120,000 WIWO

www.realcommercial.com.au/3162818

www.realcommercial.com.au/3154056

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Kirsten Gadsby 0409 408 120

Kirsten Gadsby 0409 408 120

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www.bizrich.com.au This privately-owned business specialises in all landscaping and irrigation service. Includes machinery, trucks and all the equipment included.

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successful business. We do not buy, sell or manage real estate. Therefore our business operations are never in conflict.

Our team possesses intimate local market knowledge and an extensive range of in skills andWIWO experience. We believe this is the key to our ability to deliver timely, $415,000 tract n o C r reliable and accurate information and provide quality valuations.

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Townsville Young Business Achievement

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rganised by the Young Chamber of Commerce, Townsville’s future business leaders were recognised at the 2010 Townsville Young Business Achievement Awards held at The Museum of Tropical Queensland on Friday 11th June 2010.

The awards attracted many nominations, with a number of people entering to contest the two categories. The standard in both categories was “extremely high” making it a very difficult task for the judges.

The Townsville business community should be very happy with the quality of young managers and business owners. The awards highlight the achievements of Townsville’s finest and help secure Townsville business future by encouraging young business people to step up and take on managerial positions or to open their own business.

Awards 2010

Above: Corporate Employee of the Year Isabelle Yates - Townsville Airport

Left: Business Person of the Year Ben Woodford - BNG Sports

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