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Want to increase leads and sales on the cheap? Maybe it’s time to consider spreading your business across multiple domains.

Founders are one of the most begrudged players in start-up land. Here’s why, and what you can do about it.

Small amounts of stress help give you drive, but higher or prolonged stress reduces productivity and increases your susceptibility to short and long term illness. Here are some ideas for how to balance your internal wiring.

The bring-your-own-device trend has taken off, based largely on the popularity of iOS and Android smartphones and tablets. But the freedom associated with allowing employees to choose their devices comes at a price. Companies have opened up a Pandora’s box of potential technical issues, only some of which have come to light.

Happy Friday SMBs and entrepreneurs! Should you have missed any of the week’s most important business headlines, we’ve wrapped them up for you. Making news this week, Fair Work Australia granted the country’s lowest paid workers a wage increase of $17 per week and the RBA left the the cash rate unchanged at 3.5 percent.

Your Friday Entrepreneur Fix this week features Handle Your Own PR founders Jules Brooke and Simone Heydon, who took the loss of clients during the GFC and turned the bad luck into a thriving new business.

Falling revenue is causing small business economic confidence to dwindle, according to new research. Despite these sales falls, a fifth of SMBs say they’re feeling optimistic that conditions will begin to improve over the next 12 months.

With so many marketing channels in today’s mobile world, it can be tough to know how best to reach your target market. Here are six tips to help you choose the most effective medium.

Starting a business takes passion – and often a reality check. Here’s how to know when moving on might be the best thing for your business.

If your operation falls to pieces when you’re not there, you’re doing something wrong. Use these tips to create a sustainable system.

Running a business often doesn’t deliver all the work/life benefits owners dream it will. If your balance is quickly disappearing before your eyes, a productivity expert has three valuable pieces of advice that will help you win back your freedom.

The Commonwealth Bank is making mobile banking more accessible to small businesses, rolling out a number of new innovations to its social payments app CommBank Kaching this week.

A look at how content-delivery networks can help small-business owners.

The rapid growth of your business is a dream come true, right? For many SMBs, the dream turns into a nightmare because of their poor execution, or total lack of, a fast growth strategy. Here are some foolproof steps for dealing with rapid growth.

Some argue that a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policy is now as important a part of the business communications landscape as having a telephone number or a website. Here’s what you should consider.

It’s great to want to get publicity for your business, but where do you start? Well the first and most important thing you need to do is prepare. Here are six things what you need to have organised before you start approaching the media.

As of 1 October, the provision of a Living Away From Home Allowance (LAFHA) will be treated as income to employees and businesses will need to assess entitlements and employment terms and conditions under the new rules. Here’s what you need to know about managing the allowance.

Australians are well and truly embracing technology as a new way to shop, with nearly 40 percent having used a smartphone or tablet to compare prices and find a better deal, new research has found. There are a few simple ways businesses can capture these savvy comparison shoppers, both in-store and online.

These five types of emails can sabotage morale, ruin relationships, and kill your office culture. Make sure you’re not setting a bad example.

Want to recognise the next big thing before everyone else? Here’s how it’s done.