Small Business Support Resources
Have questions about running your business, type the topic in the search bar. We probably have some help for you.
Business Foundations
Listen To The Podcast
At Business Abundance, we love dealing with business owners to help them achieve their goals, whatever they might be. This business-focused podcast will be delivering free content for business owners to help them solve problems and grow their business. It'll cover topics from marketing right through to finance and work/life balance. To sign up for podcast updates:
Productivity & Mindset
Marketing
Employees & Recruitment
Systems & Operations
How to Make Sales Less Awkward
If sales feels uncomfortable, awkward, or harder than it needs to be, this article is worth your time. We unpack the most common blockers people face like rejection, confidence, and knowing what to say and talk through practical ways to approach sales as a conversation, not a performance.
Sales Isn’t About Convincing People, It’s About Helping Them Make a Decision
For a lot of small business owners, the word immediately brings up images of pushy tactics, awkward conversations, or people being talked into spending money they didn’t actually want to spend. It’s why so many people say, “They either want me or they don’t” and then quietly avoid sales altogether.
Being good at your trade is not the same as being good at business
People go into business because they’re good at what they do, not because they’re trained to run a business. A tiler, landscaper, electrician, designer, or consultant doesn’t wake up one day wanting to manage accounting software, compliance, people, systems, and cash flow. They start because there’s demand for their work, and at some point, that demand turns into responsibility.
Why Control Feels Safer Than Stepping Away
When processes are clear, roles are defined, and expectations are shared, responsibility spreads. The business becomes less fragile, not more. And stepping away stops feeling like abandonment and starts feeling like freedom.
Why Many Business Owners Have Bought Themselves a Job
Most people don’t start a business because they want to work longer hours with more risk and less certainty. They start because they want independence, flexibility, better income potential, or the chance to build something of their own. No one sets out with the goal of buying themselves a job.
Most Advice Doesn’t Work
Most people don’t consume advice to make decisions. Instead, they want to feel productive, inspired or reassured. Unfortunately, it's become entertainment. You can watch, read and nod along and because there is always more advice, nothing ever feels urgent enough to act on it. Most advice doesn’t fail because it’s wrong. It fails because it’s absorbed without context, without diagnosis, and without a decision attached to it.
How Smarter Systems Create a More Efficient Business
If your business is still weighed down by paperwork or disconnected tools, it might be time for a smarter setup.
Cybersecurity: Why Business Owners in Australia Can’t Afford to Ignore It
In 2023-2024 alone, Australians reported over 87,000 cybercrime incidents. That’s one report every six minutes! For small businesses, it’s estimated that the average incident costs about $49,600. For many, that’s enough to erase profit margins for the year.
Scrap the Mission and Vision
As the months pass and the to-do lists pile up. It becomes increasingly easy to forget the reason you started in the first place. I am pretty sure you didn’t start your business to spend your life on the edge of burnout.
Why Did You Start Your Business?
No one wakes up one morning and thinks, “I want to work twice as hard, take on all the risks and give up my weekend, just for the fun of it”.
And yet, as of June 2024, there were 2,589,595 small businesses in Australia. That makes up 97.2% of Australian businesses*.
What is a Business Owner?
When I ask people what they do, and they say they own a business, it doesn’t take long to realise that those people ‘own a job’. I don’t mean that as an insult – it’s a reality for so many small business owners, especially in the early years.
How to Create a Business Plan for a Small Business
A business plan that sits on a shelf is a waste of time. It can feel like a chore… and it is if you do it wrong. But the value of a business plan isn’t in creating a perfect document or creating a flawless path forward, it’s worth creating because it sets the stage for intentional action. Here’s how…