Lorna Brett

Welcome to Friday, small business owners! No doubt you’ve had a busy week, so as usual we’ve wrapped up the week’s most important small business headlines for you.

Your Friday Entrepreneur Fix this week features Dorry Kordahi, the BRW Young Rich List member who failed his HSC and went on to found one of the countries most successful promotional marketing businesses.

Sentiment, transparency, variety and zeal – all important aspects of social media. In the final article of a four-part series, Shama Kabani and Jennifer Wilson share insights on various areas of social media, broken down by alphabet. This week they take a look at the social media basics, from S to Z.

Online retail sales grew 29 percent in 2011, far surpassing growth in traditional bricks and mortar sales for the year.

Business owners must be strategic when it comes to altering their staffing structure in response to market uncertainty, with experts warning a balanced approach to scaling back jobs is better for business in the long-term. Here’s the strategies you need to know.

The Samsung GALAXY Tab 8.9 is now available on the Telstra 4G network, making it the first tablet to launch onto Telstra’s new, super-fast 4G network.

Julia Gillard may have retained the Prime Ministership in this week’s leadership ballot, but business experts say women with leadership aspirations can take away some valuable lessons about what not to do when it comes to leading from the PM’s time in office.

SMBs are exposed to many of the same security threats as large enterprises, so it’s important to know what you should be keeping vigilant against. Here’s some expert advice about the mobile security threats facing small business and tips for combating them.

If you’re looking to meet new likeminded people in the small business sector, Twitter should be one of your first ports of call. Twitter gives its users unprecedented access to industry influencers, resources, high-profile figures and thought leaders – the kind of access that could take your business to the next level.

The end of the week has rolled around again, so catch up on the week’s most important small business headlines of the week.