Business guides and resources - emergencies and natural disasters

Plans, guides and contact details for expert advisors to help your business adapt and recover after a crisis or natural disaster.

Face to face and/or over the phone

Personalised support and advice on a range of topics is available from:

  • Service NSW Business Concierge service
  • Service NSW Business Connect service
  • Small Business Commissioner.

Find out how you can access personalised support .

Natural disaster support

Business premises, repairing and rebuilding your premises.

If you're planning to rebuild, learn more about changes to the rules including:

  • temporary works for operating your business
  • overview of the planning system
  • cleaning up and rebuilding
  • temporary rules for building works
  • how to lodge a development application .

Help people find your business

Free mail redirection.

Australia Post offers free mail redirection for up to 12 months to individuals and small businesses affected by natural disasters. For more information, visit Australia Post's website .

Business support

Assistance for aboriginal and torres strait islander businesses.

Indigenous Business Australia provides economic development opportunities to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people through:

  • loans and financial services
  • business finance and partnerships.

Find out about assistance available:

  • visit  Indigenous Business Australia
  • call Indigenous Business Australia on  1800 107 107 .

BizRebuild provides practical and on-the-ground assistance to businesses affected by natural disasters. They can help businesses recover with assistance ranging from finding jobs for displaced workers to drawing up recovery plans and matching businesses with donated equipment.

Visit the Business Council of Australia BizRebuild website .

Business continuity plan

The NSW State Emergency Service Business Continuity Plan can guide small businesses with planning for emergencies to help reduce damage and costs following a natural disaster. Complete the questionnaire to make your plan.

Visit Emergency Business Continuity Plan .

Business guide to recovering from disaster

The NSW Small Business Commissioner has produced a step-by-step guide to help businesses, from the moment a natural disaster hits to the days, weeks and months ahead.

Find out more and download a copy of  Get back to business: A guide to recovering from disaster .

Financial institutions

Businesses that are experiencing financial difficulty can visit the Australian Banking Association’s  Financial Assistance Hub  for answers to frequently asked questions and guidance on next steps.

Customers will need to contact their financial institutions to discuss the options available to them.

COVID-19 support

Asic covid-19 relief.

If you're experiencing difficulties meeting your obligations to the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) due to COVID-19, you have the option of discussing payment plans and applying for fee waivers. For more information, visit  ASIC COVID-19 relief .

business.gov.au

For information from the Australian Government on COVID-19 financial support and resources for small businesses, industries, employers and Indigenous businesses, visit business.gov.au .

Department of Primary Industries

COVID-19 updates and information for businesses operating in primary industries – including those related to agriculture worker permits and border-crossing information, the health of your workers, industry impacts and industry support – can be found at the Department of Primary Industries .

Insolvency framework reforms

The Australian Government has made changes to its insolvency framework to enable more small businesses to quickly restructure and survive the impacts of COVID-19.

For more information, visit the Australian Taxation Office .

NSW Small Business Commissioner guides

To help your business prepare for and recover from the impacts of crises and natural disasters, download the helpful free guides available from the Small Business Commissioner website including:

  • Prepare for the unexpected: Build a business continuity plan
  • Selling to NSW Government: A guide for small business
  • Local procurement: A guide to doing business with local councils
  • Retail tenancy guide .

Business rights, protections and acceptable conduct

For guidance and information about your rights and protections as a business owner and how to treat customers fairly, visit the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) website .

For additional information and support about running your business in NSW including advertising and selling products and services, dealing with customers, acceptable business conduct and how to avoid and report business scams, visit  NSW Fair Trading .

Related information

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  • Financial advice and tax assistance
  • Get help when your small business is in debt
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Why preparing for a disaster is important for your business

Planning ahead can help you keep people safe and protect the future of your business.

It will help you understand your risk, know what to do, and get your business and staff ready. By putting your plan in action, you can reduce damage and other costs, and position your business to recover quicker from a disaster.

Steps for preparing your business

Know the risks to your business.

Determine the types of emergency events that might impact your business. Every business is at risk of the danger and disruption a disaster can cause.

Speak to your local council, a business advisor and other businesses about any potential risks you might face and how to prepare for them.

Use the Rural Fire Service (RFS) online mapping tool to check if your  location is prone to experiencing bushfires .

Plan the actions you will take in an emergency

Sit down with your staff and make an emergency action plan. Everyone should know what to do in an emergency. Set clear roles and responsibilities and provide appropriate training.

Your plan may include, but is not limited to:

  • emergency evacuation procedure
  • making an emergency kit
  • a financial plan
  • an insurance plan
  • preparing important documents and backing up your data to the cloud or a storage device.

Resources to help you make your plan:

The NSW SES Emergency business continuity plan  takes about 10 minutes to complete online.

For a more comprehensive plan, refer to this guide from the NSW Small Business Commissioner. It provides advice and templates for making a more detailed plan, including for different types of disasters.

For businesses where animals are housed, such as boarding kennels, vets, horse stables, or pet shops, refer to  Planning for emergencies - a guide for animal holding establishments  by the Department of Primary Industries.

Be aware of conditions in your area

Stay up to date on disaster information in your area. This will help you know when to trigger your emergency action plan. For emergency assistance, dial Triple Zero (000).

Save these information sources to your plan:

  • Bush Fire Information Line –  1800 679 737
  • RFS website ,  Facebook  and  X (formerly Twitter)
  • Hazards Near Me NSW app
  • ABC radio frequencies
  • Live Traffic NSW website
  • Live Traffic NSW app ( Apple iOS , Android ).

Connect with your neighbours

Talk with other businesses in your area about risks and preparing for a disaster.

Local community organisations and council can also provide advice and help in an emergency.

Make connections, share your contact details and work together if disaster strikes.

Apps to download

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Hazards Near Me NSW

Hazards Near Me shows current information about local emergencies, including flood, bushfire and tsunamis, and advice on what to do to stay safe. The app can send you push notifications when there are new incidents or when information changes.

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Emergency +

Save the app that could save your life.

‘Emergency +’ is a national app developed by Australia's emergency services and their government and industry partners, helping people to call the right number at the right time, anywhere in Australia.

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BOM Weather

BOM Weather is the Bureau of Meteorology's weather app, giving you accurate weather information at your fingertips.

The BOM weather app includes current conditions, forecasts, warnings and radar.

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Live Traffic NSW

Incidents and conditions on NSW roads 24/7 from the Transport Management Centre.

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Service Planning

Health service and strategic planning is undertaken to ensure the organisation and its health services are organised and delivered based on the community's current and future needs and preferences, and to make the most effective use of available resources to improve population outcomes.

Effective health and strategic service planning provides a clear direction for service development and resource investment across all parts of the health system and the health continuum from the well and at risk population, to those who require treatment and ongoing disease management and/or palliative care.

Service planning involves:

  • Assessing current and projected population health needs, 
  • Reviewing current service capacity and effectiveness, 
  • Estimating the future array and configuration of services required to meet population needs, including evidence-based models of care and service models, 
  • Outlining the processes and desired outcomes of change, including defined service goals, objectives and strategies (i.e. what we need to do, why, who, when, where, how). 

Types and levels of service planning may include:

  • Statewide, regional, Cluster or health network service planning (capital, clinical or population-based) 
  • Planning for specific populations (e.g. Aboriginal people, older people) or clinical services 
  • Program and service planning at a local level within an organisation, facility, department or unit. 

Service planning is undertaken within a broader framework of integrated planning outlined by the NSW Ministry of Health. Service planning precedes and informs other types of planning – including capital infrastructure, workforce and information management – with the aim of building a sustainable health system to protect and improve the health and wellbeing of the community.

Health service planning differs from business planning in that service planning has a longer term outlook and a broader focus. A business plan is more operational and is usually implemented over a one year period.

Service Planning generally incorporates the following steps:

  • Define scope of plan 
  • Find evidence and identify needs 
  • Develop service options paper 
  • Develop draft health service plan 
  • Develop final health service plan 
  • Obtain endorsement of plan 
  • Communicate plan to stakeholders 

Identify executive sponsor(s) to implement the Plan.

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Service Business Plan Template

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Over the past 20+ years, we have helped over 10,000 entrepreneurs and business owners create business plans to start and grow their service businesses. On this page, we will first give you some background information with regards to the importance of business planning. We will then go through a service business plan template step-by-step so you can create your plan today.

Before we get into how to write a service business plan, here are links to several service business plan templates:

  • Beauty Salon Business Plan
  • Car Detailing Business Plan
  • Car Wash Business Plan
  • Catering Business Plan
  • Cell Phone Repair Business Plan
  • Child Care Business Plan
  • Cleaning Services Business Plan
  • Computer Repair Business Plan Template
  • Construction Business Plan
  • Consulting Business Plan
  • Day Care Business Plan
  • Dog Daycare Business Plan
  • Dog Grooming Business Plan
  • Financial Advisor Business Plan
  • Hair Salon Business Plan
  • Indoor Playground Business Plan
  • Insurance Business Plan
  • Janitorial Business Plan
  • Landscaping Business Plan
  • Massage Therapy Business Plan
  • Nail Salon Business Plan
  • Photography Business Plan
  • Plumbing Business Plan
  • Salon Business Plan
  • Spa Business Plan
  • Staffing Agency Business Plan
  • Tutor Business Plan

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What Is a Service Business Plan?

A service business plan provides a snapshot of your service company as it stands today, and lays out your growth plan for the next five years. It explains your goals and your business strategy for reaching them. It also includes market research to support your company plans.

Why You Need a Business Plan

If you’re looking to start a service business or grow your existing business you need a good business plan. A business plan helps you attract investors to satisfy your funding requirements, and plan out the growth of your entire business in order to improve your chances of success. Your service business plan is a living document that should be updated annually as your company grows and changes.

How to Secure Funding for a Services Business

With regards to funding, the main source of funding for a services business are personal savings, credit cards, bank loans, and angel investors. 

With regards to bank loans, banks will want to review your service business plan and gain confidence that you will be able to repay your loan and interest. To acquire this confidence, the loan officer will not only want to confirm that your financials are reasonable, but they will want to see a professionally written plan. Such a plan will give them the confidence that you can successfully and professionally operate a business.

Angel investors are wealthy individuals who will write you a check. They will either take equity in return for their funding or, like a bank, they will give you a loan.

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How to write a business plan for a service business.

The traditional service business plan format includes these 10 key elements:

Executive Summary

Your executive summary provides an introduction to your business plan in 1 – 2 pages, but it is normally the last section you write because it provides a summary of each key section of your plan.

The goal of your executive summary is to quickly engage the reader. Explain to them the type of services business you are operating and the status. For example, are you a startup, do you have a services business that you would like to grow, or are you operating a chain of services businesses?

Next, provide an overview of each of the subsequent sections of your plan. For example, give a brief overview of the service industry trends. Discuss the type of service business you are operating. Detail your direct competitors and your competitive advantage. Give an overview of your ideal customers. Provide a snapshot of your marketing plan. Identify the key members of your team, and offer an overview of your financial plan.

Company Overview

In your company description, you will detail the type of service business you are operating.

In addition to explaining the type of service business you operate, the company analysis section of your service business plan needs to provide background on the business.

Include answers to questions such as:

  • When and why did you start the business?
  • What milestones have you achieved to date? Milestones could include sales goals you’ve reached, new store openings, etc.
  • Your legal structure. Are you incorporated as an S-Corp? An LLC? A sole proprietorship? Explain your legal structure here.

Industry Analysis

In your industry analysis, you need to provide an overview of the service business.

While this may seem unnecessary, it serves multiple purposes.

First, researching your specific niche of the service market educates you. It helps you gain insights and understand the market in which you are operating. 

Secondly, market research can improve your strategy particularly if your research identifies market trends. For example, if there was a trend towards more eco-friendly services, your company might want to emphasize its environmentally friendly initiatives.

The third reason for market research is to prove to readers that you are an expert in your industry. By conducting the research and presenting it in your plan, you achieve just that.

The following questions should be answered in the industry analysis section of your service business plan:

  • How big is the service business (in dollars)?
  • Is the market declining or increasing?
  • Who are the key competitors in the market? What is your market share?
  • Who are the key suppliers in the market?
  • What trends are affecting the industry?
  • What is the industry’s growth forecast over the next 5 – 10 years?
  • What is the relevant market size? That is, how big is the potential market for your service business. You can extrapolate such a figure by assessing the size of the market in the entire country and then applying that figure to your local population.

Customer Analysis

The customer analysis section of your service business plan must detail the target market you serve and/or expect to serve.

The following are examples of customer segments in the service industry:

  • Businesses in need of a specific service, such as computer repair or consulting
  • People who have a need for a service that is not currently being met
  • People who are price conscious and are looking for the best deal on a service
  • People who want to support businesses with social responsibility values

As you can imagine, the customer segment(s) you choose will greatly depend on the type of service business you operate. Some of your clients may want different pricing and product options and would respond to different marketing promotions compared to other target customer segments.

Try to break out your target market in terms of their demographic and psychographic profiles. With regards to demographics, including a discussion of the ages, genders, locations, and income levels of the customers you seek to serve. Because most service businesses primarily serve customers living in the same city or town, such demographic information is easy to find on government websites.

Psychographic profiles explain the wants and needs of your target customers. The more you can understand and define these needs, the better you will do in attracting and retaining your existing clients.

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Competitive Analysis

Your competitive analysis should identify the indirect and direct competitors your business faces and then focus on the latter.

Direct competitors are other businesses that provide similar services.

Indirect competitors are other options that customers have to purchase from that aren’t direct competitors. This includes businesses that provide an alternative solution to the services that you provide, but not the exact service. Think do-it-yourself and public options for similar services. You need to mention such competition to show you understand that not everyone who needs the specific services will engage your service business.

With regards to direct competition, you want to detail the other service businesses with which you compete. Most likely, your direct competitors will be service businesses located very close to your location. 

For each such competitor, provide an overview of their businesses and document their strengths and weaknesses. Unless you once worked at your competitors’ businesses, it will be impossible to know everything about them. But you should be able to find out key things about them such as:

  • What types of customers do they serve?
  • What products and services do they offer?
  • What is their pricing (premium, low, etc.)?
  • What are they good at?
  • What are their weaknesses?

With regards to the last two questions, think about your answers from the customers’ perspective. And don’t be afraid to stand outside your competitors’ locations and ask customers as they leave what they like most and least about them.

The final part of your competitive analysis section is to document your competitive advantages. For example:

  • Will you provide superior services?
  • Will you provide services that your competitors don’t offer?
  • Will you make it easier or faster for customers to book your services?
  • Will you provide better customer service?
  • Will you offer better pricing?

Think about ways you will outperform your competition and document them in this section of your plan.

Marketing Plan

Traditionally, a marketing plan includes the four P’s: Product, Price, Place, and Promotion. For a service business plan, your marketing plan should include the following:

Product : in the product section, you should reiterate the type of service business that you documented in your Company Analysis. Then, detail the specific services you will be offering. For example, in addition to a lawn care business, you may offer to trim trees, bushes, and hedges.

Price : Document your business’s pricing strategy including the prices you will offer and how they compare to your competitors. Essentially in the product and price sub-sections of your marketing plan, you are presenting the services you offer and their prices.

Place : Place refers to the location of your service business. Document your location and mention how the location will impact your success. Discuss how your location might provide a steady stream of customers. 

Promotions : the final part of your service business marketing strategy is the promotions section. Here you will document how you will drive new customers to your location(s). The following are some promotional methods and marketing materials you might consider:

  • Advertising in local papers and magazines
  • Reaching out to local bloggers and websites 
  • Social media advertising
  • Local radio advertising
  • Pay per click advertising
  • Banner ads at local venues

Client Retention

Your service business plan should discuss not just how you will find clients, but how you’ll hold on to them and discourage them from switching to one of your competitors. After all, it should be much less expensive to keep a client than to market and sell services to a new one. Some methods of retaining customers involve creating the perception of switching costs; that is, that they will lose money and time when switching to a new service company. Others involve fine-tuning your customer service skills into a system designed around retention.

Loyalty Program

Creating a loyalty program is a positive way to retain customers. This could involve a punch card system where customers receive a free service after a certain number of visits, or it could involve a points system where customers accumulate points that can be redeemed for discounts or free services. Other loyalty programs offer exclusive deals and privileges to members, such as special access to new services before they are made available to the general public.

Premium Customer Levels

Another related retention strategy is to reward the frequency and/or the amount of money that customers spend with your service business. This is often done by creating different customer levels and providing perks to customers who reach a certain level. The higher the customer level, the more exclusive the perks. Common perks include discounts on services, express service, access to unique services or products, and early notice of promotional deals.

Referral Program

A referral program is a great way to keep customers happy and encourage them to refer their friends and family members. This could involve rewarding customers with a discount or free service for every new customer they refer, or it could involve giving customers a set amount of credit for each referral. Either way, the referral program should be designed to be as simple as possible for customers to participate in.

Customer Testimonials

Finally, customer testimonials can be a powerful retention tool. As potential customers research your service business, they will likely come across your website and online profiles. Seeing positive customer testimonials on your website and across the internet will help convince them that you provide outstanding customer service. You can create a separate page on your website that is dedicated to client testimonials, or you could set up a separate social media profile that features client testimonials and allows customers to provide feedback through a special email address.

Tracking Retention

Simply tracking the numbers and percentages involved in your customer retention can yield valuable information about what you’re doing right or wrong and how successful new initiatives are over time. Statistics to track may include client complaints, the average speed of complaint resolution, the percentage of customers in a given month who were using your services last month, 3 months ago, 6 months ago, a year ago, etc, and so on. When your staff is aware of these statistics and is given targets to work towards, the message that customer service and retention is a priority is heard loud and clear.

Operations Plan

While the earlier sections of your service business plan explained your goals, your operations plan describes how you will meet them. Your plan should have two distinct sections as follows.

Everyday short-term processes include all of the tasks involved in running your service business such as serving customers, procuring supplies, etc.

Long-term goals are the milestones you hope to achieve. These could include the dates when you expect to serve your 100th client, or when you hope to reach $X in sales. It could also be when you expect to hire your Xth employee or launch in a new city.

Management Team

To demonstrate your service business’s ability to succeed as a business, a strong management team is essential. Highlight your key players’ backgrounds, emphasizing those skills and experiences that prove their ability to grow a company. 

Ideally, you and/or your team members have direct experience in the service business. If so, highlight this experience and expertise, but also highlight any experience that you think will help your business succeed.

If your team is lacking, consider assembling an advisory board. An advisory board would include 2 to 8 individuals who would act as mentors to your business. They would help answer questions and provide strategic guidance. If needed, look for advisory board members with experience in a service business and/or successfully running small businesses.

Financial Plan

Your plan should include your 5-year financial statement broken out both monthly or quarterly for the first year and then annually. Your financial statements include your income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statements.

Income Statement : an income statement is more commonly called a Profit and Loss statement or P&L. It shows your revenues and then subtracts your costs to show whether you turned a profit or not.

In developing your income statement, you need to devise assumptions. For example, will you serve 20 customers per week or 50? And will sales grow by 2% or 10% per year? As you can imagine, your choice of assumptions will greatly impact the financial forecasts for your business. As much as possible, conduct research to try to root your assumptions in reality.

Balance Sheets : While balance sheets include much information, to simplify them to the key items you need to know about, balance sheets show your assets and liabilities. For instance, if you spend $50,000 on building out your service business, that will not give you immediate profits. Rather it is an asset that will hopefully help you generate profits for years to come. Likewise, if a bank writes you a check for $50.000, you don’t need to pay it back immediately. Rather, that is a liability you will pay back over time.

Cash Flow Statement : Your cash flow statement will help determine how much money you need to start or grow your business, and make sure you never run out of money. What most entrepreneurs and business owners don’t realize is that you can turn a profit but run out of money and go bankrupt. For example, let’s say a company approached you with a massive $100,000 damage restoration contract that would cost you $50,000 to fulfill. Well, in most cases, you would have to pay that $50,000 now for supplies, equipment rentals, employee salaries, etc. But let’s say the company didn’t pay you for 180 days. During that 180 day period, you could run out of money.

In developing your Income Statement and Balance Sheets be sure to include several of the key costs needed in starting or growing a service business:

  • Cost of equipment to perform the service
  • Cost of maintaining an adequate amount of supplies
  • Payroll or salaries paid to staff
  • Business insurance
  • Taxes and permits
  • Legal expenses

Attach your full financial projections in the appendix of your plan along with any supporting documents that make your plan more compelling. For example, you might include any insurance company affiliations or remediation licenses.

Service Business Plan Summary

Writing a business plan for your service business is a worthwhile endeavor. If you follow the template above, by the time you are done, you will truly be an expert. You will really understand the service business, your competition, and your potential customers. You will have developed a marketing plan and will really understand what it takes to launch and grow a successful cleaning services business.  

Service Business Plan FAQs

What is the easiest way to complete my service business plan.

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What is the Goal of a Business Plan's Executive Summary?

The goal of your Executive Summary is to quickly engage the reader. Explain to them the type of service you are providing and the status; for example, are you a startup, do you have a service that you would like to grow, or are you operating a chain of service locations?

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