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Heres SmartCompanys small business holiday gift guide, featuring 21 products and businesses, recommended by 12 Australian entrepreneurs.

Pastry chef and cake-baker extraordinaire Patti Chimkire of Mali Bakes, takes us inside her jam-packed day – and oh-so-sweet studio.

The 2021 Business Book of the Year has been awarded to author Tracy Sheen for her book The End of Technophobia, written to help business owners embrac...

Cult Status by Tim Duggan has been named among the winners of the 2021 Australian Business Book Awards. Find out which other books won awards.

SmartCompany Plus is your new essential toolkit for running your business SmartCompany is excited to launch SmartCompany Plus, the newest part of our publication, with insights from leading Australian entrepreneurs and experts.  Among the first This month in SmartCompany Plus, you’ll also find a resource guide into the R&D tax incentive, a workplace law checklist and an extract from Fiona Killackey’s great guide to small business, Passion. Purpose. Profit.  SmartCompany Plus is our n...

Five marketing tips to help sole traders expand in 2021 My Daily Business Coach founder Fiona Killackey. Following the arrival of the pandemic, small businesses across the country were driven to re-evaluate the way they operate. Research from Xero’s Rebuilding Australia report shows that almost a quarter of those that thrived in 2020 did so by increasing their focus on digital sales and services. More than half of the 1,000 SMEs that took part in the research also planned to invest further i...

There’s something about those slow-paced summer days spent with a good book.  This holiday season, my reading list features fiction and cookbooks, and some small business inspiration too.  The number of books on my to-read pile will always far exceed the time I have to read them, but there’s nothing I enjoy more than visiting my local bookshop and being inspired to make a new purchase.  So, here’s six books I plan to spend time with these holidays.   Passion. Purpose. Profit by Fion...