Small Biz Matters: People, Policy, Purpose.

Small Biz Matters – #185 Providing the small business community with educational content and advocacy since 2014 with Alexi Boyd, broadcaster, advocate and small business owner. Date: 10 November 2020 I realised recently that I haven’t had a real life disruptor on Small Biz Matters before. Someone who recognises early the potential, uniqueness and well, the magic of their idea. Coupled with a desi...

Small Biz Matters – #184 Providing the small business community with educational content and advocacy since 2014 with Alexi Boyd, broadcaster, advocate and small business owner. Date: 3 November 2020 As we hurtle towards the middle of the 21st century small businesses are becoming more and more environmentally conscious and good habits are beginning to emerge. Whether it be reducing our carbon foo...

Small Biz Matters – #183 Providing the small business community with educational content and advocacy since 2014 with Alexi Boyd, broadcaster, advocate and small business owner. Date: 27 October 2020 Time to get excited about statistics. No, really! As small business owners we are often reminded to learn who our ideal client is and research this with gusto until we have a perfect image in our mind...

Small Biz Matters – #182 Providing the small business community with educational content and advocacy since 2014 with Alexi Boyd, broadcaster, advocate and small business owner. Date: 13 October 2020 The annual CEBIT conference is a must on the small business education calendar. Always covering a wide range of interesting, thought provoking subjects, this year’s online version - the SMB Digital tw...

Small Biz Matters – #181 Providing the small business community with educational content and advocacy since 2014 with Alexi Boyd, broadcaster, advocate and small business owner. Date: 13 October 2020 An ABN is an Australian Business Number which  is required for anyone to be conducting  business activities in Australia. It’s an unique 11-digit identifier issued by the Australian Business Register...

Small Biz Matters – #180 Providing the small business community with educational content and advocacy since 2014 with Alexi Boyd, broadcaster, advocate and small business owner. Date: 6 October 2020 We talk a lot on this program about advocacy and how you, the listener, are a leader. You’re passionate about small business whether that’s you being more successful in your own business, leading other...

Small Biz Matters – #179 Providing the small business community with educational content and advocacy since 2014 with Alexi Boyd, broadcaster, advocate and small business owner. Date: 6 October 2020 So, What is Neuro Linguistic Programming and how can mindset help you achieve in small business? It’s certainly not a topic many are thinking about right now as small business in Australia finds itself...

Small Biz Matters – #178 Providing the small business community with educational content and advocacy since 2014 with Alexi Boyd, broadcaster, advocate and small business owner. Date: 29 September 2020 Intro: Small Biz Matters is proud to announce our ongoing collaboration with the Australian Small Business and Family Enterpris­­e Ombudsman through regular updates from Kate Carnell about all ASBFE...

Small Biz Matters – #177 Providing the small business community with educational content and advocacy since 2014 with Alexi Boyd, broadcaster, advocate and small business owner. Date: 22 September 2020 Intro: There are some changes afoot. No, I’m not talking about Jobkeeper, cash flow stimulus or any other support package, rather a piece of legislation which has crept up on the small business comm...

Small Biz Matters – #176 Providing the small business community with educational content and advocacy since 2014 with Alexi Boyd, broadcaster, advocate and small business owner. Date: 15 September 2020 I enjoy having authors as guests on Small Biz Matters. They’re great talent having researched for their publication and really knowing how to articulate the issues explained within; often drawing on...

Small Biz Matters – #175 Providing the small business community with educational content and advocacy since 2014 with Alexi Boyd, broadcaster, advocate and small business owner. Date: 8 September 2020 What could possibly be better than one small business educational podcasts? Two!! Dan Osborne and Tim Garth from Two Drunk Accountants started their podcast a few years ago when they realised that ac...

Small Biz Matters – #174 Providing the small business community with educational content and advocacy since 2014 with Alexi Boyd, broadcaster, advocate and small business owner. Date: 1 September 2020 The road to small business success is dotted with the pitstops of life. Previous experiences, major milestones in your career, successes and failures in a former working life or maybe the success of...

Small Biz Matters – #173 Providing the small business community with educational content and advocacy since 2014 with Alexi Boyd, broadcaster, advocate and small business owner. Date: 1 September 2020 Jobkeeper. JK. Stimulus. Handout. …. No matter how you describe it, it’s been a great illustration that we are living in the Lucky Country. Where else in the world has government been able to with on...

Small Biz Matters – #172 Providing the small business community with educational content and advocacy since 2014 with Alexi Boyd, broadcaster, advocate and small business owner. Date: 25 August 2020 With a welcome influx of innovative startups into our small business community it is helpful for experienced small business owners and newbies to understand the Startup Support Landscape. Your idea can...

Small Biz Matters – #171 Providing the small business community with educational content and advocacy since 2014 with Alexi Boyd, broadcaster, advocate and small business owner. Date: 18 August 2020 Despite the best intentions and our hard work at building relationships, sometimes it can all go to the proverbial. A dispute over an unpaid invoice, incomplete work, timing issues or workplace grievan...

Small Biz Matters – #170 Providing the small business community with educational content and advocacy since 2014 with Alexi Boyd, broadcaster, advocate and small business owner. Date: 11 August 2020 Not all Tech Founders are cut from the same cloth. We imagine an uber-cool twenty something hipster in designer ripped jeans in their inner west grungy garage,  spouting bourjois ideals and claiming th...

Small Biz Matters – #169 Providing the small business community with educational content and advocacy since 2014 with Alexi Boyd, broadcaster, advocate and small business owner. Date: 11 August 2020 Podcasts, videos, radio, TV, socials, posts, comments and notifications. The world has an unquenchable thirst for content, and no shortage of new platforms for you to tap into. And the pressure is on t...

Small Biz Matters – #168 Providing the small business community with educational content and advocacy since 2014 with Alexi Boyd, broadcaster, advocate and small business owner. Date: 4 August 2020 Running a small business is never a solo road; your path is guided by key stakeholders and strategic partners who help you. They might be people who work within your business, key clients, suppliers or...

Small Biz Matters – Providing the small business community with educational content and advocacy since 2014 with Alexi Boyd, broadcaster, advocate and small business owner. Date: 4 August 2020 When the chips are down you need a peak body on your side. And boy are the chips down right now. Right now small, medium and even large retailers are losing income and purging employees to the point of no re...

Small Biz Matters – a half hour program each week where you can work ON your business rather than IN it. with Alexi Boyd, broadcaster, advocate and small business owner. Date: 21 July 2020   In the world of small business, marketing strategy can seem like a long battle requiring constant tweaking and analysis. We work tirelessly to post, upload, photograph, describe, blog, video and it can sometim...

Small Biz Matters – a half hour program each week where you can work ON your business rather than IN it. with Alexi Boyd, broadcaster, advocate and small business owner. Date: 21 July 2020   There are certain types of stories we all listen to in times of crisis. Stories of strength when overcoming personal hardship, of growth in economic slumps, of great leadership when dealing with unusual situat...

Small Biz Matters – a half hour program each week where you can work ON your business rather than IN it. with Alexi Boyd, broadcaster, advocate and small business owner. Date: 14 July 2020   At the cutting edge of technology the innovation revolution is fast paced, exciting and inspirational. Many new startup small businesses play in the tech space and there like in all small business worlds, inno...

Small Biz Matters – a half hour program each week where you can work ON your business rather than IN it. with Alexi Boyd, broadcaster, advocate and small business owner. Date: 14 July 2020   Staff you never see, emails flying around at all times of the day, meetings on a screen… Welcome to the new world of staff and team management for small business. And if you hadn’t already nailed time tracking...

Small Biz Matters – a half hour program each week where you can work ON your business rather than IN it. with Alexi Boyd, broadcaster, advocate and small business owner. Date: 7 July 2020 Small Biz Matters is proud to announce a new collaboration with the Australian Small Business and Family Enterpris­­e Ombudsman - regular updates from Kate Carnell about all her office is doing to advocate and su...

Small Biz Matters – a half hour program each week where you can work ON your business rather than IN it. with Alexi Boyd, broadcaster, advocate and small business owner. Date: 7 July 2020 Whilst everyone interested in small business is trying to reinvent themselves through pivoting and adapting there’s one small business who is living it … and everyone is talking about their story. From the Prime...