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Seventy-five percent of small-business owners have no real succession plan — a potential recipe for disaster. This entrepreneur’s accidental fate tells a cautionary tale.

Need money? Complete these nagging personal-finance tasks today.

Here’s why Facebook’s next big move into mobile ads may be a boon — or a bust — for your business.

Apple is giving Mac fans a preview of its updated operating system (OS), with Mountain Lion set to bring some of the iPads best features to desktop and laptop computers.

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

Anytime Fitness has now sold 300 franchises territories in the three years since launching in Australia, and local master franchisees Justin McDonell and Jacinta McDonell-Jimenez don’t expect growth to slow any time soon.

The Australian-founded crowdsourced graphic design business 99designs has launched in the UK and begun hiring staff in the region as part of its strategic growth plans.

Since the time of Ben Franklin busy entrepreneurs have been told ‘time is money,’ but is this common mindset actually making you miserable?

Confessions you wish you could make to your team but can’t.

Can you really trademark a baby’s name? Absolutely. Why would you want to? The answer is more applicable to your business than you may realise.

Consider this advice for testing different strategies to encourage customers to open and respond to email messages.

On Valentine’s Day, a young entrepreneur’s thoughts may turn to love. Here are seven tips for making room in your busy schedule.

Why managing your business credit score is more important than you may think.

Businesses have welcomed news of a surprise jump in consumer sentiment, as the number of optimists outweighs the number of pessimists for the first time in some months.

Thanks to the strength of the Australian dollar, Sydney has been named the seventh most expensive city in the world to live in, closely followed by Melbourne, which took out the eighth spot

Telstra is catering to the rising number of SMB owners travelling overseas for business with a new range of pre-purchased international roaming data packs, designed to reduce the cost of browsing the internet and accessing email while overseas.

Advice to help you be more confident, manage more effectively, and sell more than you think you can.

Social media is a great way to promote your business–but too much time online can burn you out. Here’s how to get your spark back.

Keep your eyes open for these red flags; they could make a partnership go off the rails.

The hotly-anticipated LG 3.0 PRADA smartphone will hit Australian stores in April, and is the third phone to be released as a result of a collaboration between LG Electronics and the PRADA fashion house.