Entrepreneur Business: Govt says retailers are exaggerating threat from web sales, The big New Year law changes for SMEs, Experts wary on rumours of wave of pub collapses

Dear SmartCompany reader,

Happy New Year to everyone in the SmartCompany community. We trust you had a restful break and are ready for another successful year, starting with a big day of news. Today we look at the growing fight between Australia’s big retailers and the Government over international web sales, and in Entrepreneur Watch James Thomson provides five reasons Myer, Harvey Norman and David Jones have got it wrong. Plus, we’ve got all the New Year law changes you need to be on top of, and we look at rumours of a tidal wave of collapses in the pub sector.

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News

Rich Secrets
10 ways to get on the rich list The 2010 BRW Rich 200 list sees entrepreneurs with wealth gained from a diverse stable of industries. So how can you make your own millions? BY JAMES THOMSON.

Top Story
New decade, new challenges Contrary to the expectations of the gloom and doomsters, 2010 turned out to be a positive year. So what will this year look like? BY CRAIG JAMES.

Aunty B
I am bad at hiring staff and managing people. Help! There are plenty of people running small businesses who are appalling people managers, yet constantly blame their failure on the poor quality of staff.

Trends

Selling
Sue Barrett Are you ready for the phenomenon of social sales? Social media is contributing to the democratisation of information and, armed with this info, customers will demand different things from sales people and companies.

Business Tech Talk
Paul Wallbank The customer is always right... Right? The new national consumer laws have a sting in the tail for the unwary business. Make sure you understand the changes.

Authentic Leadership
Dennis Roberts Strategy and planning for small business One of my biggest bugbears in small business is just how few small businesses prepare a strategic or business plan and work at implementing it.

Retail Trends
Kevin Moore Clive Peeters an eeeasy model for success to Harvey Norman Under the Harvey Norman model the approximate $350 million of sales per year that previously passed through Clive Peeters will grow.

Entrepreneur Watch
James Thomson 5 reasons the big retailers are wrong The big retailers should abandon their push to have the GST exemption on goods purchased from overseas websites dropped.

Coming Up

We reveal who is making money from New Year’s resolutions.

Best wishes,
Amanda Gome
Founder / Publisher
SmartCompany.com.au

One of my biggest bugbears in small business is just how few small businesses prepare a strategic or business plan and work at implementing it. If you know what you're trying to achieve it makes it so much easier to implement and choose from a vast array of alternate strategies.

Dennis Roberts, executive coach

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