Website Terms vs Client Service Terms… What's the difference? Is there any? Can't we all just get long? Let’s break it down.

This is the first episode in our new Clause Play video series where we unpack common contract clauses and give tips to help you improve your legal documents.

When you first start up a company, it is exciting just to get started and make that first sale! You might make something or set up a service for a friend and just start selling it straightaway under your own name. Eventually, you might start thinking about getting a business name, a formal business number, and other kinds of company structures.

If you’re building a marketing list and collecting names, email addresses, and other personal information, you need a privacy policy and you need a plan on how you manage that information.

Selling your products and services is obviously an important part of every business. You do the work, you want to get paid. So, you need terms and conditions tailored for your online business and delivering services virtually. Your documents and processes should be optimised online.

When you’ve done the work, you should get paid. It’s as simple as that. If you want to get paid quicker, this article will show you how to: Build a solid payment structure into your daily business habits, Use proven psychology for following up on late payments, Fire off a payment demand letter that gets $25,000+ results within days (get the template version here) and Increase the chances of your invoices getting paid on time with three easy to implement ideas.

Whilst it sounds romantic to quit your job and start building your own business empire, in reality it can take time and patience to replace your full time income. It’s daunting to quit your job, regardless of whether you love it or hate it.

It’s a sensible step where you can plan and develop your ideas and audience before you take the plunge into your own business. There are some big pitfalls to keep in mind as you build up the lady boss business of your dreams, while still working your nine to five.

Why waste a lot of time for no reason, right?

Those terms and conditions on a similar business’ website looks like they should be okay… Their business is fairly similar to yours…. Why not just copy and paste them, and change the business name?

There are a few good reasons why this is not a clever idea.

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A helpful checklist of key legal issues for promotions using comparisons or savings claims

A handy checklist as a basic guide to key legal issues for advertising and marketing.

The last installment in the 8 ways to ruin your marketing series looks at how typos and poor proofing can have a legal impact or cause legal headaches (fingers crossed there aren't any in this post & presentation!).

The second last installment in the 8 ways to ruin your marketing series takes you through the concept of getting easy wins by ensuring you cover the basic standard requirements for certain products and marketing types.

Part 6 in the 8 ways to ruin your marketing series looks at how failing to understand the product you are selling can lead to legal issues and provides a case study on risky product areas.

In Part 5 - Stuff up pricing, we look at three case studies of companies that got pricing wrong or tried to be a little sneaky with pricing and ended up in hot water with the ACCC.

In Part 4 – Don't research or check facts, we look at comparative advertising and savings claims.