Our society tells us that failure is a bad thing. We should try to avoid making mistakes, if we get the answer wrong we’ll fail the test. As a business owner you need to embrace failure, you need to welcome it and become its friend….
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Amongst the never ending ‘to do list’ of an entrepreneur, social media falls somewhere near last. In our day and age where the only reason to go outside is for work and to take the out the bins, our society lives on the internet, so…
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When I was eight years old my parents ran a not-for-profit organisation called Breaking the Cycle. Breaking the Cycle would take long term unemployed youth off the streets, put them through a three-month training program and then help them find employment. They were the most…
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Ruslan Kogan has really positioned himself as the underdog in the electronics market, taking on the big boys like Gerry Harvey and giving the consumer lower prices by allowing them to order online and cutting out the traditional retail overheads. In doing so, he’s positioned…
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Counter-intuitively, often in business the larger the vision, the easier it is to execute. When you have a compelling vision, grounded in substance and communicated with confidence, people and resources follow. Too often we can be misled into believing that if we aim small we…
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Like The Entourage, the Twitter movement amongst small businesses is, as Jack would say, marching on! This week, we launched the small business advertising platform at ads.twitter.com and, as the small business evangelist at Twitter, I am having lots of great discussions with small business…
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Starting a business with a friend can seem like a great idea, but it can be fraught with danger. You have a superb idea and a co-founder to help you bring it to life. You have different skills but the same passion. You’re on a tight…
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If you had told me a year ago I would be where I am now, I would have smirked at the possibility, but would have said you were absolutely mental. A year later and… shall we say the stars aligned greatly in my favour? I…
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Jane Lu is the Founder of Showpo, one of Australia’s most recent online success stories with over 370,000 Instagram followers, over 400,000 Facebook fans, and having recently celebrated their first $1 million dollar month in sales. Jane was kind enough to share some of the…
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When chatting to business owners, one of the things you generally see are the emotions they show when asked how their business is performing. Some of the reactions I get: How are sales looking at the moment? We’ve smashed budget for the month! How is…
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