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.
Cost-Cutting Won’t Save Your Business
But most businesses don’t understand the difference between cutting costs and managing costs. One is smart, while the other is a slippery slope that can wreck your service, your culture, and your reputation without you even noticing until it’s too late.
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.
Small Business Burnout Often Starts in Survival Mode
When you’re no longer able to look ahead and every day is spent putting out urgent fires, something has shifted. Decisions become reactive, sleep and nutrition fall away, patience runs thin, and anxiety becomes a constant background noise. This is survival mode.
The Most Dangerous Phase of Burnout
After reflecting on Ian’s story of burnout in Episode #3 of the Business Abundance Podcast, it became clear that the warning signs deserve more attention. If you haven’t already, I recommend listening to Ian’s story before reading on, it provides important context for what follows.
If You’re Burnt Out, More Rest Isn’t the Answer
We’re taught that the solution is self-care, holidays, and rest, and while those things can help, they’re often band-aid solutions. In the end, you still have to return to the job that created the burnout in the first place.
Burnout isn’t about how much you work.
It’s about how trapped you feel while working.