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Editor's blog

Bosses: Cap your pay

While it’s true that the hard work we’ve put in to get our business off the ground warrants monetary appreciation, it’s important to find that limit of self-pay that stops you from eating into the business itself.

Colin Porter · 2 min
Digital

Business emails: Legal matters (Part 2)

Legal ramifications associated with emailed correspondence are often overlooked, but the growing instances in which emails are used to drive legal disputes suggest we should be paying more attention.

Colin Porter · 2 min
Cashflow

Personal Property Security: It’s in the Ts & Cs

The potential benefits with the PPSA are indeed obvious, but, as with anything relating to assets and property, the devil can be in the details.

Colin Porter · 2 min
Editor's blog

Jetpack invention a lesson in courage

Most people are not smart enough to invent a jet pack. I’m talking about a personal jet pack that actually flies.

Colin Porter · 2 min
Editor's blog

Shifting the blame wears thin

Sometimes to simply stay viable, unpopular, if not heartbreaking changes are necessary. That’s part and parcel of business, politics, and life.

Colin Porter · 2 min
Editor's blog

Obtaining finance no magic formula

I’ve been fortunate enough to be my own boss for twenty years. Let me be the first to say that there isn’t a business owner in Australia, nay the world, who hasn’t fought in the battle of obtaining finance.

Colin Porter · 2 min
Editor's Choice

Contracts: Dotting your own i’s, crossing your own t’s a bad idea

When it comes to lawyers, jokes and stereotypes abound. Some are true, others are actually very outdated.

Colin Porter · 2 min
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Editor's blog

‘Doing the right thing’ – fringe to mainstream

Being the emotion-driven person that I am, it’s always more fun to debate the big issues of politics and economics with someone who brings a different perspective, and so my brother makes a perfect sparring partner.

Stephanie Zillman · 2 min
Agri-Business

City to country disconnect, but times are a changin’

City folk are seen as total aliens to those in the country, and vice versa. But I suspect change is afoot, and it’s happening the only way we city-folk understand: it’s becoming cool.

Stephanie Zillman · 2 min
Devices

My life without a smartphone

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an online journalist must be in want of a smartphone. Well, perhaps 99 per cent of the time.

Stephanie Zillman · 2 min