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Fuel, wages, insurance, energy. The costs keep stacking up. COSBOA is warning that more cost pressure risks pushing a fragile situation over the edge.
Yajush Gupta
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March 27, 2026
March 27, 2026
Dext CEO Sabby Gill explains what the next stage of automation looks like for small businesses.
Yajush Gupta
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March 27, 2026
March 27, 2026
OpenAI has shut down Sora, its AI video generation app, just months after it topped the App Store charts.
Yajush Gupta
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March 27, 2026
March 27, 2026
From fuel costs to borrowing pressure, Australian small businesses are being squeezed on every front. Oliver Hume Chief Economist Matt Bell unpacks the numbers behind the pain.
Yajush Gupta
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March 26, 2026
March 26, 2026
When fuel costs rise, everything else follows. COSBOA’s Skye Cappuccio says small businesses are resilient, but they cannot absorb sustained cost increases indefinitely.
Yajush Gupta
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March 26, 2026
March 26, 2026
Generic emails are getting ignored faster than ever. Here is what personalised outreach actually looks like in 2026, and how any SME owner can do it.
Yajush Gupta
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March 26, 2026
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Meta has 250 million small businesses on its platforms. Now Zuckerberg is making them a company-wide priority.
Yajush Gupta
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March 26, 2026
March 26, 2026
Australian fintech Prospa has partnered with Qantas Business Rewards, letting eligible SMEs earn up to 500,000 points per loan.
Yajush Gupta
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March 25, 2026
March 25, 2026
A new RMIT and Deloitte report puts a dollar figure on low AI literacy in Australia. We unpack the numbers that should have every SME operator paying attention.
Yajush Gupta
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March 25, 2026
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If you’ve been running your business for years without AI, you’re not alone. But study finds the data behind that choice is harder to ignore than most operators think.
Yajush Gupta
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March 25, 2026
March 25, 2026