October’s Commonwealth Bank Business Sales Indicator (BSI) remained flat in October after contracting for ten consecutive months, suggesting retail spending has hit a plateau prior to the the Christmas retail period.
Veda Advantage’s Business Credit Demand Index, released today, indicates many small-to-medium sized businesses (SMEs) remain reluctant to take on credit throughout 2010, with demand falling 5.7 percent in the July to September period over the same quarter in 2009.
Choosing a bank has always been as much about convenience as getting a good deal. For decades, it’s simply been easier to throw our lot in with a big bank than to research the challengers and shift our accounts.
Cloud? SaaS? Does it make any sense to the average small business owner? This Q&A should help clear things up.
Gift and Homewares Australia (GHA) is calling on the new Labor minority Government to do its part for small business and establish a dedicated seat for the Minister for Small Business in Cabinet.
This week we released the latest results of the MYOB Business Monitor*, and its positive news. For the first time since the Global Financial Crisis, more business owners in Australia report revenue increases (35%) than report revenue decreases over the last 12 months (22%). And in the next quarter, half of Aussie businesses have got more work on than usual, and only 14% have less.
City Ceramics (NT) was named Australia’s best small business at the18th Annual Telstra Business Awards in Sydney on Friday night.
For the eleventh year in a row, the valuable contribution of the small business sector of NSW is the focus of Small Business September 2010.
Australia’s SMBs believe company tax cuts to be the most important issue in the upcoming federal election, a new Telstra survey has found.
The sixth Digital Citizens event, “Startups, small shops and bootstrappers: the real value in social media and digital PR for small business” will discuss both the benefits and the pitfalls of using the social ‘social media’ to reach customers
