Clarification of Answer by
siliconsamurai-ga
on
11 Jul 2002 07:17 PDT
Thank you for your nice comment and rating.
Without knowing a great deal about your personal skills, business, and
just how urgent this is, I'm not certain I can be more specific about
which method you should begin with other than my comment that I would
recommend applying for an ABN. Which method you choose will depend a
great deal on what you are comfortable doing.
For example, forming an association with an existing company will
probably not be easy but it may offer the greatest long-term
potential. This will depend a lot on exactly what you are trying to
market. For example, are you competing direcly with every similar
Australian company? If so then it will be difficult to find a
partner.
Also, the cost and time involved for each of these methods will vary.
For example, if you are just exploring this possibility and are
looking to develop this market over years, not months, then you should
first try to find a partner, if that fails, then move on to other
methods.
Your question was "What is the simplest, quickest, and cheapest
way..."
Those parameters are variables.
The simplest is probably to apply for an ABN. In the long run this
will make it easier to deal with the Australian government.
The quickest is almost certainly to apply for a trademark because, as
far as I can determine, you would qualify for a URL as soon as you
have a pending trademark.
The cheapest way (in money terms) is to form an association with
another company already doing business in Australia, but this won't be
quick or simple.
"Cheapest" is relative and all of these methods are far less expensive
than forming a seperate company in Australia, if only because you
would still have to apply for an ABN.
You use the term "urgently" so I would recommend that you take two
simultaneous steps.
Apply for a trademark
AND
Apply for an ABN
This will obviously cost more than doing either one individually and
it's not really possible to determine which will be fastest since it
depends on how quickly your ruquest will be processed and that can
vary from day-to-day depending on the work load, but it's most likely
that applying for a trademark would be fastest and, by the time the
pending application is either approved or quite possibly denied, the
ABN should be in place.
I hope this is helpful but dealing with government workers and
regulations can be tricky and your experience could easy vary greatly
depending on exactly who picks up your application. In general it's
usually best to try more than one approach when the situation is
urgent because there's just no way to know about vacation schedules or
current work loads, both of which can cause interminable delays.
Your suggestion about organizing the methods better is a good one, I'm
still getting comfortable with the formatting guidelines here.
