Tag: Small Business

With energy prices steadily rising over the past decade it has never been more important for businesses to be aware of their electrical usage.

The word burnout is one that is sadly becoming increasingly prevalent in today’s society when it comes to small business owners.

The National Roads & Motorists’ Association (NRMA) have partnered with Slingshot Accelerator to launch Jumpstart, a program offering 14 businesses a chance to earn $30,000 in seed funding.

Inefficiency, wasted time and effort, stretched to capacity – even just reading these words gives most businesses a bad feeling. For most companies, a smoothly running IT infrastructure is a critical business requirement.

With the franchise industry contributing an estimated $131 billion to the Australian economy, it is fast becoming a mature sector with many small to medium scale businesses utilising a franchise model as one of their key strategies for growth.

Follow your dreams. It may sound like a cliché, but that’s exactly what this successful mother and business owner did.

The City of Sydney has joined forces with the Office of the NSW Small Business Commissioner to bring the Small Biz Connect program, an initiative that aims to support small business, to the inner city.

Many entrepreneurs and businesses aim for the largest possible customer base, focused on seeing a strong return based on everyday consumers, but could aiming for wealthy customers be the way to go for SMEs?

The unimaginative among us may lament that ‘all the good ideas are taken’. For young Melbourne entrepreneurs Jordan Catalano and Tom Hywood, that notion is ridiculous.

One of Australia’s peak business groups has defended the creation of a more effective appeals mechanism at the Fair Work Commission after the Law Council warned against the controversial proposal. Kate Carnell, the head of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, representing about 300,000 small businesses, said there was precedent for specialist appeals divisions […]