Finance
The Ukraine crisis effect: What a rise in interest rates and global supply chain woes mean for Australian SMEs
Octet supply chain finance manager Joe Donnachie discusses the impact on lending terms and what this means for Australian SMEs.
Tag: Alternative Lending
Raising capital
Alternative lending – the long and short of it
Small business owners are each a jack of all trades – they’re CEOs, marketers, sales guns and customer service gurus all rolled into one (somewhat tightly wound) package. With their fingers in so many pies, the challenge becomes keeping on top of the new stuff – the emerging trends and technologies. With that in mind it’s no surprise […]
Expert
It’s 2016 and you’ve seen better days: four strategies to help your business cope with the excess of Christmas
The beginning and end of the year represent two extremes of the human condition. As the year draws to an end, we celebrate extravagantly and we spend. Australians are thought to have spent $8.9 billion on Christmas gifts last year. In the New Year, we redeem ourselves with healthy living – we cleanse, we detox and we […]
Small Business
Six tips to help start a business on a budget
Successful entrepreneurs have lots of things in spades – great ideas, the passion to bring them to life and the guts to turn them into a business. But budgets are tight in the startup world and an entrepreneur also needs to be great at managing them. Couple this skill with the right mix of work […]
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