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The Export Market Development Grants (EMDG) scheme is a key Australian Government financial assistance program for aspiring and current exporters.

Increasing the average transaction size will increase sales revenue. For example, a 20% increase in average transaction size will result in a 20% increase in total sales revenue.

Raising your selling prices will increase sales when your product or service has an inelastic demand curve i.e. when you raise prices and there is minimal or no change in volume sold.

Lowering your selling prices will be a profitable strategy if lower prices produce greater gross profits due to increased sales volume even though profit per unit has fallen.

Upselling is more successful when the up sellers know more about the individual customer and understands what the customer values and wants.

By calculating the true value of a customer, or potential customer, it places a value on the total sales and profits generated by the customer over their lifetime with the business. 

Operating your business from home is an option if you predominantly work at client premises, deal with clients predominantly over the phone & internet, or need a small office.

Reducing space usage and relocating to smaller premises will reduce rent costs (where the new premises have a similar cost per metre as the current premises). 

If you have unused space, subleasing part of your business premises to a third party is a great short-term strategy to reduce some of your fixed costs.

This strategy involves asking the landlord for a rent reduction.