{"id":44830,"date":"2023-10-20T15:39:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/how-do-i-cut-the-overheads-in-my-new-office-space-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:39:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:39:00","slug":"how-do-i-cut-the-overheads-in-my-new-office-space-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/how-do-i-cut-the-overheads-in-my-new-office-space-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I cut the overheads in my new office space? – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
I\u2019ve just moved into an office space as I look to grow my new business but am very mindful of unnecessary overheads.<\/b><\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In your experience, what are the key overheads I should be looking out for and eliminating? I can\u2019t really afford any waste as cash is tight.<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Firstly, congratulations on taking a huge step in your business career.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Moving into an office is probably the biggest expense you will have with fit-out, furniture, signage, etc, so I would suggest to find a property that was fitted out and came with furniture to save you a huge expense.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n After the fit-out costs, when you move offices you have to change all your stationary and marketing material to update your new addresses and phone numbers.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Unfortunately, those expenses are necessary but you should try to limit them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The next biggest expense you have running an office is rent. Although this is necessary, paying more than you have to isn’t.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Negotiate in your rent the outgoings and reduce your rent to cover the outgoings.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Some of the other key overheads are:<\/p>\n The biggest advice is not to spend money on something that you don’t really need. Reducing overheads is about being smart and spending on what you need and can afford.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The bottom line: Always think twice before buying something. Don’t be an impulse buyer, call your accountant before making a purchase so you can discuss it and think twice. I have many clients who use my suggestion of doing this and it works great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve just moved into an office space as I look to grow my new business but am very mindful of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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