How to understand your worth and convey this to clients - Spotlight on Small Business Mental Health

Posted by Alexi Boyd on Jan 08

Small Business owners are notorious for putting ourselves last. The business, our clients, our family are all well ahead of our health and wellbeing. And from a mental health perspective, when you put yourself last you devalue your work and...

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Learn From The Experts - Digital Presence & Growing Online

Posted by Alexi Boyd on Dec 18

It's not often you have local small business royalty in Da Triple H House but we certainly have someone here today who will inspire. Rachel Chappell built her small business from an idea, meeting the needs of her thousands of clients and...

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Developing an E-Commerce Strategy for your Business

Posted by Alexi Boyd on Dec 11

E-Commerce and the dark art of online selling. Not only is it crucial to get your online sales streamlined and working but it actually needs to make sense and integrate with your sales and marketing strategy. Why? Because for all of us selling is...

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How to Avoid the Black Economy & Why the ATO is Supporting Small Business with a taskforce

Posted by Alexi Boyd on Nov 27

I was proud in October to represent Small Biz Matters at the ATO's Protecting Honest Businesses seminar at Haymarket where I interviewed Braden Powell, Director of Small Business Assurance. He explained the importance of understanding the Black...

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Inside Family Law - what small business needs to be aware of

Posted by Alexi Boyd on Nov 27

The Legal System. Small business owners should probably understand it more than we do but we only start diving into it in worst case scenarios. We engage with legal experts only when we NEED it and hope to never have to...

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In what ways does the Federal Government support, listen to and affect small business?

Posted by Alexi Boyd on Nov 20

When operating a small business in Australia we have to navigate local, state and federal legislation and compliance. We operate in a particular area so the impact of local government decisions affects us daily but when it comes to compliance, tax...

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Small Business Lending - How has the Royal Commission changed the landscape?

Posted by Alexi Boyd on Nov 13

If there's one "moving feast" topic which is almost impossible to keep track of its small business lending. If its not the RBA changing rates its the Big Four changing their requirements for small business loans and then throw in a Royal Commission..

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How to use Podcasting to grow your Business

Posted by Alexi Boyd on Nov 06

Well before it was cool to grow your online reputation using podcasting Ash Roy was curating content, gaining a huge listenership and positioning himself as the expert in podcasting. Explore the Productive Insights Podcast which has been running...

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Small Business Education Opportunities

Posted by Alexi Boyd on Oct 30

It's important to keep learning when you're running a small business but like so many aspects, it is often put on the backburner while we work in our business rather than in it. But many of us don't realise that further learning is right on our...

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Teaching Your Kids about Everyday Cashflow

Posted by Alexi Boyd on Oct 16

From invoicing to cash flow to bill paying, one of the many strengths (and hats) we have as small business owners is keeping on top of our business' finances. If we do it in-house we often run our family's finances too. Now, that can go one of two...

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