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For decades, cocoa was a crop many said could not be grown commercially on local soil. How wrong they were.

A Sydney builder is hoping to revolutionise the way Australians buy, sell, and get rid of building products through a new app and online market place.

While you can’t always predict disaster, you can prepare for any contingency by making sure all your business systems and data are safe.

American Express interviewed four of Australia’s brightest and most successful small business entrepreneurs to determine what motivates them, how they got where they are today, and why Charge is intrinsic to their business.

It seems Australians are moonlighting – as online shopkeepers. Internet start-ups have increased 200 per cent from 2010 and 2012, four times the pace in the United States and Britain.

The latest economic statement released by the Treasury details the short and medium-term economic outlook for Australia, the challenges ahead, and the path back to surplus – which is now forecast for 2016-17.

Australia is lagging behind in business creation, according to new research from RSM.

It’s not rocket science – customers want to have positive experiences when interacting with your business.

New study reveals SMBs are losing over $24 billion in productivity every year, due to non-technical employees having to manage a company’s IT solutions.

Scott Wesley of Chandler Macleod Recruitment blogs about demographic profiling and social media as part of the recruitment process.

“Think laterally for a moment – we already have the technologies that can predict how potential employees will behave in a given work environment. So why can’t we map the workplace behaviours of key performers back to their use of the digital environment?”