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Over 300 free and low cost events will be run across the state of Victoria during August for the annual Small Business Festival.

New survey data has revealed that female entrepreneurs in the Pacific are having more success at breaking into the export market than their Australian counterparts.

A group of 23 organic dairy farmers in Victoria are having such great success with their locally made butter they have been able to double production in under a year since launching.

The Australian wine industry has not been without difficulties in recent years. But Tasmania has increasingly been attracting investment from some of the sector’s major players.

If there’s one subset of SMEs in this country who are truly embracing new technologies – with a massive payoff to boot – it’s the winners and finalists of the 2014 Telstra Australian Business Awards.

The Fair Work Ombudsman’s new small Business helpline has reportedly received more than 100,000 calls since it was established in December last year.

Heads up Aussie retailers: beginning 1 August 2014, the PIN will be the main form of card payment authorisation in Australia.

There’s change afoot. No longer is farming and farm culture seen by city dwellers as the work of yokels; in fact, it has become the height of fashion.

Juliet Rosser believes in supporting Australian artists. So much so that she set up a business to promote their work and better engage the public with the arts sector.

Formatting a drive remains one of the most common ways organisations try to erase data from drives, even though it doesn’t work.

Cash registers used to be incredibly ornate machines. With a certain sense of authority and triumph, every sale would be accompanied by the sound of makin’ money: “Ca-ching”!!

While I wouldn’t call The Internship a modern day classic, there is a particular scene that absolutely encapsulates the fears of so many small business owners when it comes to migrating online.

A new study has confirmed the number of young farmers entering a life on the land is falling.

A meeting of young entrepreneurs from across the globe has agreed to a new action plan that supports start-ups and bolsters growth in the SME sector.

Retailers are being given the chance to cut business costs and boost energy efficiency thanks to free workshops being held around Australia.

Investing in startups used to be something only millionaires and the über wealthy could afford or even think about. But times have changed.

On the face of it, opening a new spin and yoga studio in Sydney’s CBD sounds like a shortsighted plan. Aren’t there already dozens of gyms doing that exact same thing?

Thanks to mass production and offshore cheap manufacturing, it’s seemingly easier, quicker, and cheaper to just replace the item, rather than seek a repair.

There often comes a time in a small businesses life that it grows large enough to employ additional specialist resources such as an HR manager or a second person to manage the finances.

Wicked Campers is no stranger to controversy, and right now there’s a fresh wave of public outrage over its latest slogan to go viral (“In every princess, there’s a little slut who wants to try it just once”).