Supporting Small Businesses – How #BuyFromTheBush can help your small business

By PVA Guest Blogger / December 10, 2019 /
How the #BuyFromTheBush Campaign has helped Small Businesses in the Bush

It’s been a rough time for rural communities in Australia. With many farming communities dependent on rain to keep them afloat, it’s been a struggle for many families to make ends meet. Enter Grace Brennan, who started the #BuyFromTheBush hashtag and social media profiles to support small businesses in her local community. The purpose of the Buy from The Bush campaign is to encourage those in metropolitan areas to spend their money on rural small businesses in order to keep rural communities alive and thriving during these hard times. View this post on Instagram A post shared by #buyfromthebush (@buyfromthebush)…

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Digital Grant Program: How to get your dream website for half the price!

By PVA Guest Blogger / November 6, 2019 /
Small Business Owner celebrates winning a digital grant

Technology is making our lives better than ever before. As well as allowing all of us to better connect with our loved ones and find the information we need, it also provides Australian small businesses with the unique opportunity to reach larger audiences than ever before, thanks to the power of websites. Getting a website, however, can come with a lot of challenges. Creating your own from scratch can be intimidating, and easy website builders often have flaws that make them less viable for small businesses, such as a lack of SEO features and restrictive functionality for growing businesses. On…

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The Forgotten Art of Human Connection

By PVA Guest Blogger / October 28, 2019 /
A man and woman sit beside each other and have clearly forgotten the art of human connection.

Human Connection in Business, the impact of the new digital age We’ve recently had a guest blogger, who wishes to stay anonymous, come and share her experience with social media. While she speaks on personal issues, her words speak true on the importance of personal connection within the world of business, whether it be between employer and employee, coworkers or towards clients. We hope you find her experiences as insightful as we did. Welcome to the 21st Century Facebook Experiment The virtual world has become a mainstay in our everyday lives. Digitally, we rely on our devices to feed us…

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Social Media Marketing: Four tips for Slaughtering your Feed this Halloween

By PVA Guest Blogger / October 24, 2019 /
Four tips for Slaughtering your Social Media this Halloween

Picture this: The misty forests of Romania on a crisp Autumn evening, the full moon casting a haunting light across the land. A chilling breeze cuts through the cabin you’ve holed yourself up in while you prepare, working your woodworking knife across yet another piece of wood, creating a deathly sharp point. Tonight, you are a vampire hunter, about to storm Dracula’s castle. Or perhaps you’re simply a small business owner about to take on an even more gargantuan task: creating engaging social media content that’s sure to get you more customers and clients! Social media marketing is a challenge…

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The Seven Deadly Sins of Small Business Bookkeeping

By Kylie Ufer / October 8, 2019 /
The Seven Deadly Sins of Small Business Bookkeeping

Bookkeeping is one of those tasks that many Small Business Owners absolutely dread. So if you want to tackle your own bookkeeping, the best way to relieve your fears will be to make sure that you don’t commit any these seven deadly sins.

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Why growing your small business too fast can ruin your relationships

By Kylie Ufer / September 19, 2019 /
Growing your small business too fast can have consequences on your personal life

It is completely normal that as a small business owner we want to see our small businesses grow and scale into success and thriving operations as quickly as possible. BUT! Can growing your business too fast actually ruin your relationships? So, when I said ‘Can growing your business too fast, actually ruin your relationships?’ – what relationship immediately popped into your head? Was it your relationship with your partner, perhaps it was the relationship with your kids, or was it your relationship with another family member. It could have even been your relationship with your Clients or perhaps with Money!…

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