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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…