This toolkit is an online resource to help support and guide South Australian small business owners with a variety of tools, templates, videos, webinars and guidance to start, run and grow your businesses.
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A SWOT analysis is a strategic planning tool used to assess the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of your business.
Guiding you through some important steps in starting your business.
Learn how to develop a risk management plan to prepare and protect your business.
A SWOT analysis is a strategic planning tool used to assess the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of your business.
Creating buyer personas helps you understand your target audience better. This template helps you define the demographics, interests, pain points, and motivations of your ideal customers.
This guide is designed to assist small business owners in developing effective marketing and sales strategies to drive growth and success. This guide will walk you through each section of the template, providing insights and tips to help you create a comprehensive strategy for your business.
Comprehensive payroll guide
Understanding types of scams, latest news and alerts
The Business Funding Guide is an essential tool for trusted advisers to help their small business clients find the right funding and become ‘finance fit’.
FitsME – Essential guide to business funding gives small business operators the most important information they need to know about the types of funding available
SmartCompany and MYOB discuss the various elements of social media marketing
List of things not to do
A SWOT analysis is a strategic planning tool used to assess the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of your business.
Creating buyer personas helps you understand your target audience better. This template helps you define the demographics, interests, pain points, and motivations of your ideal customers.
You’re a business owner who’s mastered the art of organic social media and want to dabble in social media ads. This template will take you through the steps and considerations needed for a social media ad. It will also give you a structure you can use for creating effective social media ads, including headline, description, visuals and targeting parameters.
If you have newsworthy announcements or events, a press release template can help you to craft a professional and effective press release to distribute to media outlets and online platforms.
This guide is designed to assist small business owners in developing effective marketing and sales strategies to drive growth and success. This guide will walk you through each section of the template, providing insights and tips to help you create a comprehensive strategy for your business.
Email marketing is a powerful tool for businesses to reach and engage their audience. This template will help step out what you need to consider to be effective and avoid spamming your audience to provide value and increase return on investment.
The Social Media post template provides a consistent format for your social media posts, including captions, hashtags, visuals and call-to-action buttons.
SmartCompany and MYOB discuss the various elements of social media marketing
This Salesforce eBook offers guidance for small business to map their growth strategies
Learn how to develop a risk management plan to prepare and protect your business.
A SWOT analysis is a strategic planning tool used to assess the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of your business.
Learn how to develop a risk management plan to prepare and protect your business.
A SWOT analysis is a strategic planning tool used to assess the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of your business.
Comprehensive payroll guide
Free mindfulness program to take control of your mental health.
Managing mental health for yourself and staff during COVID-19
Be Well Co is a social enterprise that develops and delivers evidence-based mental health solutions. They perform in-house and collaborative scientific research to develop high quality engaging mental health and wellbeing services.
Open Your World is a one-top-shop for information on wellbeing
How to ensure your business is covered
See how you are tracking with your mental health and wellbeing
Keeping teams connected when working from home
Learn how to develop a risk management plan to prepare and protect your business.
This template is designed to help you to outline policies, procedures and expectations for your employees.
Worksheet 1: Workforce Preparation Plan
The first step in Workforce Planning is preparation.
To set yourself up for success, you need to identify who should be involved in the activity and they will be the key to the success of the undertaking. This will be based on the scope and scale of your business.
This worksheet will help you plan for your future workforce needs.
Worksheet 2: Workforce Self Assessment
Step 2 of workforce planning involves collecting and analysing information about your employees and the business to understand their strengths and weaknesses, gaps, and areas for improvement.
Use the this worksheet to help conduct an audit of your current staff to help assess your current workforce.
Worksheet 3: Identifying Workforce Problems and Solutions
Step three in workforce planning is to identify any problems that may arise with your workforce and find solutions.
Running a business is unpredictable but work can be done to set your company up for success.