Opinion

So what are the secrets to running a successful business, and growing it fast?

With the $484.2 million Entrepreneurs’ Infrastructure Program giving small business up to $20,000 in loans, a cut in company tax for those earning below $5 million taxable income and other measures, there’s a lot to smile about.

The end of the financial year is fast approaching and small businesses need to get their tax affairs in order.

Do you buy on eBay? Have you stayed at a place on AirBnB? Have you sold clothes on ASOS? These are all high profile online marketplaces.

While the government is rightly attempting to put our fiscal position on a sustainable footing its sense of urgency seems to be at the expense of long-term, broader reform to the tax system.

It’s been a super month for Government economic statements, in Australia with the long awaited “commission of audit’ report being released just ahead of the usual Federal Budget unveiling.

When you’re in business, time flies and you can often forget to take a moment and contemplate how far you’ve come, so I’ve used this milestone to take the time and list seven lessons I’ve learned throughout my past twenty years in business.

‘Seniorpreneurs’ are the fastest growing segment of entrepreneurship, and considered by experts and researchers as the next boom.

Accounting for 96 per cent of local businesses, SMBs are an important aspect of the Australian economy.

The dilemma is whether to be the nice girl, aka: the pushover, or the character from Devil Wears Prada.

Adding spy software to someone’s phone is legal as long as you have legal ownership over the person’s phone to which you’re adding the software or app.

Dealing with complaints is one of the less enjoyable aspects of running any business and fortunately, if you are doing a good job it shouldn’t happen very often.

This week I’ve been rattled by two separate, but related, shopping experiences.

So you’ve decided to make the jump into the world of franchising… Now all you need to do is chose the perfect business from more than 1,300 franchise systems operating in Australia. Piece of cake, right?

The dramatic increase in both the sophistication and frequency of cyber risks and attacks on businesses has profoundly changed the security threat landscape.

The Australian economy is at an interesting period of transition.

Despite the platitudes about being the backbone of our economy, small business often has very little input when it comes to policy development. Instead, big business, with its deep pockets, has the resources to ensure the issues that concern them get in front of decision makers — starting with employing ex-politicians to lobby government on […]

They may appear harmless, but free Wi-Fi hot spots come with a number of risks of which which most users, and even many providers, are unaware.

Why are some people destined to be involved in startups, and other people destined to become CEOs of large conglomerates?

Procrastination: we all do it. Students excel at it, and many of us think it’s the enemy.