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Features
Entrepreneurship wasn’t the first choice for Barayamal founder Dean Foley. Growing up as a young indigenous boy in rural NSW, he had few local examples of entrepreneurs to draw inspiration. “Where I grew up, it was about just getting a job and finding enough money to pay the bills and save to buy a house… Read more »
KBB TV
In this week’s episode of Kochie’s Business Builders, we meet up with Lottie Dalziel, founder of Banish, a business whose ambition is to help Australians reduce their waste. Lottie says the business has grown significantly in the past twelve months and she is juggling a lot of hats. To stop her from chasing her tail,… Read more »
Features
Communication is changing, and small businesses should take notice or risk being left behind. Quickly becoming the preferred method of communication, 70% of internet users are now using mobile messaging as an alternative to phone and email. According to the 2019 Digital Trends Report, 90 per cent of customers express a desire to contact a… Read more »
Finance
76 per cent of Australian millennials consider the existing global economic system “outdated”: how can social media help? asks Wester Union Country Head, Australia, Simon Millard. Adopting a mobile-first mentality Australia boasts one of the highest levels of smartphone usage in the world, with 88 per cent of us owning one; ushering in what some… Read more »
People
Chern’ee Sutton is a 20-year-old indigenous artist from Queensland with a successful small business. Her heritage lies with the Kalkadoon people from the Mount Isa area in Queensland and she started painting when she was just 13-years-old. When she was experiencing trouble at school during her early teenage years Chern’ee was encouraged to enter a… Read more »
Business Advice
It’s not stuffing up your branding or missing out on the world’s best domain name, the biggest mistake you can make is simply not starting at all. I have to be honest: there is one thing in life that makes my blood absolutely, unequivocally, undeniably boil. And I am also afraid to admit that I… Read more »
Experts
Everyone needs a network, whether you’re a manager who has just scored a promotion, a leader looking for their next move or a small business owner looking for the next growth opportunity. Finding the right people, with the right knowledge and the right experience is key to your personal success. So what are the secrets… Read more »
Growth
Failure isn’t very popular. It’s rarely admitted to and you seldom see it on social media, where everyone is a ‘winner‘. When it does happen on a grand scale, it tends to be celebrated by the media. When we were starting out, Emma and I were new entrants into the fast moving consumer goods sector in… Read more »
Digital
Search engine optimisation (SEO) is a term which often intimidates a lot of business owners, but it doesn’t need to.
Business Advice
In this digital age, it’s easy to build a wall between your staff and customers. But if you don’t listen to customer feedback you stand to miss out on a valuable insight that can put your business ahead of the curve. Your customers are the endpoint of your product or services’ journey to market. No matter… Read more »
News
What is the most important quality small businesses that succeed in 2017 will share? According to one of Australia’s leading business agility coaches, Michi Tyson, small businesses with the ability to run a lean management team, use design thinking and integrate behavioural economics will thrive. She says, “The traditional structure of teams within companies is outdated,… Read more »
Business Advice
When you accept an investor injecting money or expertise into your business, you usually surrender some control of your business in return for the investment. Depending on how your business is structured and the terms of the investment, the investor becomes a co-owner of your now joint business. Even the funds are in the form… Read more »