10 Signs You’re Meant to be a Solopreneur
10 Signs You're Meant to be a Solopreneur Picture this. You’re sitting at your desk, zoned out on a Friday afternoon, just waiting for the clock to tick over to five, so you can go out for Friday night drinks. And you start to think, maybe there’s a better way…
The Difference Between a Solopreneur and an Entrepreneur
The Difference Between a Solopreneur and an Entrepreneur These days it seems everyone and their cat has a side hustle. Whether it’s a t-shirt printing business or a freelance consulting business. Everyone seems to be in on the action of running their own game. According to the Australian Bureau of…
How to Scale Your Small Business
How to Scale Your Small Business In small business there are few bigger questions than the question of how and when to scale your small business. It’s a question that plagues all small business owners often more than once in their business’ life cycle. How do you know when it’s…
How Hustle Culture is Hurting Small Business
How Hustle Culture is Hurting Small Business “I’ve got a dream worth more than my sleep!” “Starve your distractions, feed your focus.” “Rise and Grind.” As a small business owner on social media, you’ll likely have found these toxic hustle culture catch cries littering your feed. Often shared by the…
How to Take Your Market Stall Business Online
How to Take Your Market Stall Business Online For many market stall holders, the hustle and bustle of the markets is a comforting environment. You see your regulars, chat with the other stall holders, and you know what to expect each week. Many market stall holders haven’t made the leap…
Best Website Hosting For E-Commerce
Best Website Hosting For E-Commerce So, you’ve got a product and you’re just about ready to make the leap to running an online store, but you don’t have the faintest clue which hosting platform to choose. There are a lot of factors to consider when choosing your online hosting platform…
How to Make Your Side Hustle Your Full-Time Gig
How to Make Your Side Hustle Your Full-Time Gig You know the drill. You switch off your work computer at 5pm and power up your own computer because it’s time to work on that side hustle. You’ve got emails to respond to, content to plan and bookkeeping to do. And…
How to Start a Market Stall
How to Start a Market Stall If you’ve been harboring dreams of running your own business, you’re not alone. The stress and uncertainty of the pandemic led many people to rethink their working situation in what came to be known as the great resignation of 2021. If you were one…
10 Things You Should Know Before Starting Your Own Business
10 Things You Should Know Before Starting Your Own Business There’s nothing quite like working for yourself. Choosing when you work and what projects you take on is a liberating experience. If you’re considering taking the leap to working for yourself or freelancing, you’re not alone. In America from the…
Picking a Financial Advisor as a Small Business Operator
Picking a Financial Advisor as a Small Business Operator As a small business owner, finances can be difficult to navigate. Most small business owners run on passion for their work and start off with just a dream and few bucks. If you’re driven and lucky you’ll survive the first few…
Funding for Small Business (And How You Can Get Bang for Your Buck)
Funding for Small Business (And How You Can Get Bang for Your Buck) It has been a rough year for everyone but especially small businesses. With the trials and tribulations of 2020 behind us, many in the small business community are looking to the future and how you can balance…
‘You Must Have a Passion to Own Your Own Business’
‘You Must Have Passion to Own Your Own Business’ These are the words of ASSET’s Certificate III in Micro Business Operations program graduate, Zenoni Nyandwi. Zenoni is Burundian. He fled from Burundi to Malawi in 2011, escaping the political unrest and violence in his home country. Before fleeing, he worked…
9 Signs You Need To Hire Your First Employee
9 Signs You Need To Hire Your First Employee Owning your own business is a roller coaster. Launching, getting clients or customers and selling your products or services. It can be an exciting time, but it can also be a struggle. When you’re starting out there’s no guarantee of how…
Engaging Your Customers For Small Businesses
Engaging Your Customers For Small Businesses [Updated 23rd January, 2023] So, you’re running your small business and it’s going well but you want to take it to the next level. It’s time to put your customer engagement strategy under a microscope. It's time to find all your weak spots and…
