Ah, the joys of small business ownership and freelancing: one day you’re riding high, then next you’re scrambling for work. Here’s some ways to overcome those challenges and stabilize your income. What you really want, first and foremost, is recurring income – ie, clients that pay you something on an ongoing basis. This is the ultimate stability...

For some people, this is going to be irrelevant, but if you’re in the process of building or reviewing your personal budget then our own example may help. Because we have a mortgage offset account, we’re incentivised to keep all our excess cash in one place. So over the years, we’ve built our own spreadsheet...

Source: In The Black magazine by Thea O’Connor People have different chronotypes. Designing a work day that suits the body clocks of both early birds and night owls is a smart way to boost workplace performance… Jacob Aldridge, director of financial advisory at businessDEPOT, is a “proud night owl” who knows the feeling. Several years...

In 12 years of business, and 6 years of being in the real estate industry before then, I’ve experienced a LOT of sales training. So what was the best tip I ever received? Even now, sales coaching for small businesses is one of my most common projects, remains something that my coach works with me on,...

I almost let this go without celebrating: my business web series Blackboard Fridays recently released its 50th Episode. We ran a special length episode for the milestone, titled ‘The Most Colourful Business Strategy in the World‘. After all, bringing colour and energy to your business planning process is what my team and I do every day....

Here in Australia, high school graduates are about to be released upon ‘the real world’. Incredibly, all of today’s grads were born after I myself graduated from high school in 1998. So here are some thoughts from my ‘lifetime’ of experience post-high school. Life isn’t fair. BUT you have the opportunity to make it unfair in...