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Supermarket chains, franchisors, finance companies, telcos and shopping centre landlords may have to rewrite their standard contracts with small businesses once the budget extends legal protection for SMEs. While Tuesday’s budget is not expected to contain any big-ticket sweeteners for small…
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1. Clashing Vision Problem: Partners often don’t voice their vision for the business beyond simply making money. People usually go into business together for financial reasons but end up spent because their values, goals and dreams are fundamentally misaligned. If one…
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If you want to create a real competitive edge in your business start focusing on your customers. It sounds obviously simple, but the fact is most businesses continue to focus on what value they can get as opposed to what value they…
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Build it and they will come, won’t they? When it comes to your small business website, the short answer is probably not. A good website knows how to turn up in the right place at the right time, for example when…
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Charles Darwin once said that it is not the strongest of species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most adaptable to change. While Charles Darwin may have been referring to nature, his commentary has never been truer…
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Especially if you’re about to launch a business, or thinking about setting one up, you need to be mindful of the difference represented between these two terms – and where (or if) there is a difference between them in your…
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Now this one separates the posers from the real McCoys. Truth is – most of us want to create a disciple in our own image. We love the idea of building a person from scratch; I’m guilty of it, many…
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Australian small businesses are feeling positive about their current and future performance, according to the first Westpac-Melbourne Institute Small Business Index. The index, based on a survey of 300 businesses around Australia in two weeks in January, is sitting at…
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There’s a shift on in Melbourne, with major business moving out of their suburban homes and into the CBD. A new report shows 16 companies moved from the suburbs to the CBD and its fringe in the past 12 months…
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Mature workers who’ve been made redundant are investigating opportunities to work for themselves through franchises, a leading Australian franchise business says. “We’re seeing more and more people in the situation where they are made redundant and want some certainty with…
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