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Small businesses, especially those in retail and manufacturing, hold great concern over the impact the high Australian dollar will have on operations during the June quarter.

One year on, we check to see how the recovery process is going among Queensland small businesses affected by last year’s floods.

Thanks to recent flooding in New South Wales, many small businesses have been swept into unfortunate economic hardships. Help is at hand however, thanks to newly available government grants.

Technology can make business trips easier, but it can also create new risks you need to address.

These new high-tech displays can get your team working together in new, more productive ways.

Learn the social etiquette of asking for business in the new social media world.

Julia Gillard has named Brendan O’Connor as new the Minister for Small Business, with the portfolio getting a boost to the federal cabinet for the first time after last Monday’s leadership ballot led to a cabinet reshuffle.

Popular social networking site Twitter has sold two years worth of tweets, for marketing and business intelligence purposes.

The race to find Australia’s best business blog is on, as the Sydney Writers’ Centre 2012 Best Australian Blogs Competition opens this month.

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.

Conventional ‘wisdom’ about selling is frequently dead wrong. Here’s a reality check.

If your long-term customers are leaving–and not coming back–you’re probably making one of these mistakes.

Most leadership mistakes start with the leader’s own sense of identity – or lack thereof. How to keep your flaws from sabotaging your leadership.

Online retail history has been made in Melbourne, after a small business made $50, 000 in less than 24 hours through a sale on its Facebook store.

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.

If you’re only using the tool to track the number of visitors to your site, you aren’t taking full advantage of its power.

How do you engage customers on social media–without sounding like you’re marketing to them? Let the Esquire guy be your guide.

Entrepreneurs’ spouses can wear many hats, but small-business owners shouldn’t rely on them too much.

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

Australia has the highest consumer confidence of all developed nations, a new survey has found, with optimism increasing locally for the first time since July 2010.