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Australian Business Podcast — 252 episodes

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Senator Andrew Bragg on housing, tax and Australia’s productivity problem

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My 10 Rules of Business [10/10]

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Equity, founders & moats [9/10]

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Scaling. A masterclass. [8/10]

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High performance teams that aren’t sh*t [7/10]

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The best marketing rules. Ever. [6/10]

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Operations – traction & beyond [5/10]

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Financials that humm [4/10]

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2026 stock game: Owen & Navarre's $100,000 stock game portfolio

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Business strategy – execute this [3/10]

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Start with why – better life, better business [2/10]

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The Rask journey until 2026: A $50m vision [Part 1/10]

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Leadership, masculinity and stillness in chaos - Shane Horsburgh

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How do I invest in food? Investing in Farm & Agriculture Technology with Tenacious Ventures

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Australian unicorns: $1 billion startups you've never heard of

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Coffee catch up - November

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The sibling startup story behind Blossom

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David Gardner, 6 traits to beat the market, rule breakers & legacy

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Bubba makes it better: Damian Hopper on marketing hacks, social & franchises

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Shopify, YouTube, AI & Instagram: how to invest in digital businesses, ft Flippa CEO Blake Hutchison

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Inside Euphemia’s family office: Backing women-led, climate & fintech startups

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Investing in startups, unit economics and AI in research

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The hidden costs (and gold) of writing a book

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Turning Honey Into Millions: The Story Behind Flow Hive’s Global Buzz

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Micro cap private companies: it’s f#%king hard (ft. Leigh Gant)

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How to scale without burning out – sustainable growth strategies

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Scaling up – key systems every growing Aussie business needs

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From credit cards to 60 staff: Building Everest & listener Q&A

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Scaling a service business: Lessons in growth, people & systems

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How to reset your business & portfolio for a new financial year

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Accounting 101 – Balance sheets, GST, expenses & bank accounts

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How to make your business great – not just good

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Betashares founder Alex Vynokur: from zero to $50 billion & beyond

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Less staff, more tech and happier customers: How @Pilates reinvented fitness

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The future of software: Why SaaS is dominating Australian business with Todd Hammington

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Setbacks into slingshots: Financial resilience in life and business

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Beyond the pitch: How to sell ethically and effectively

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Coffee Catch Up - June

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How to scale your business, interview with Paul Warner of Amplio

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Inflection sneak peak #3: Is ‘strategy’ just a buzz word?

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Inflection sneak peak #2: What is the financial impact of scaling your business?

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Inflection sneak peak #1: Scaling your business with Owen

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Scaling your business with less effort - The Inflection Operating System

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The remote revolution: Building high-performing remote teams

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The accountability advantage: boost your team's performance through KPIs

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PocketSmith co-founder Jason Leong: a life-affirming budget, open banking and scaling a SAAS business to 300,000 users

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Content strategies to drive business growth

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How to navigate business insolvency in Australia

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How Navexa makes tax time easy for Aussie investors - Navarre Trousselot

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Sendle’s James Chin Moody on building a global logistics startup

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Unlocking cash flow: 7 strategies to improve your business liquidity

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Essential tax strategies for growing your business

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Freelance or Fraud - Is this the ultimate self employment catfish?

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Google Ads part 2: A guide for Australian businesses

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Google Ads part 1: A guide for Australian businesses

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Finance freedom for Aussie businesses: 10 money tips

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Is outsourcing right for your business? Real success stories with Flexisource IT

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How do I manage my cash flow? - Listener Q&A

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Insurance for business owners: everything you need to know

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Zara & Jordan’s Coffee Catch Up - April

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The Unseen Power of Branding

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AI & Automation: The Future of Streamlined Business Operations

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Alcove mortgage broking - an overview with CEO Chris Bates

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Your 20s Are WASTED If You're Not Doing THIS (Business Edition)

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Your Fear Is Killing Your Business (And How to Stop It)

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Zara & Jordan’s Coffee Catch Up - March

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From Aviation to Social Media; top hacks for marketing in 2025

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Inside Rask Group: Building Communities, Trust and Long-Term Brand Value

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Zoe Goodhardt on Career, Motherhood, and the Future of Marketing

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Data, Decisions, and Dollars: The CRM Formula

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Free business strategy session with Jordan + Zara

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The Untapped Power of Community in E-commerce (with Zorali's Founder)

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Creating a Community Around Your Brand - Part 1/3

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This ONE Thing Will Change Your Business: Goal Setting Mastery

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How to Build a Bulletproof Marketing Strategy in 2025

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Negotiating Salary: Employee vs Employer Talking Side Hustles & Gen Z

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7 Things They Don’t Teach You in Business School, (but should!)

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Zara & Jordan's Coffee Catch Up

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Grant Hackett: rituals, performance, managing 300 staff and using investment bonds

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Business, Babies & Boundaries - is balance possible?

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How Equity Mates was built, Ren's #1 media company in the world and where we are in ETFs

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How to start a business in 2025: Free Guide (Part 4)

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Joe Aston: why powerful people go mad & inside the Qantas Chairman Lounge

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3 Business Secrets For Success + a $40k Giveaway

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How to start a business in 2025: Free Guide (Part 3)

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How to start a business in 2025: Free Guide (Part 2)

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How to start a business in 2025: Free Guide (Part 1)

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Year in Review: Crypto Gandhi, patience, personal growth & killer companies

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Stop Trading Time for Money: 3 Lessons from Business Coaches

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2024 Wrapped - The Top 7 Business Lessons From 2024

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Brian Hartzer: analysing Big Banks & lessons on leadership

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Tax crash course for small business owners ft. ATO Assistant Commissioner

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How to do a rebrand - properly (Rask case study)

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Cafe owners are losing: 3 ways to 2x your revenue

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6 Steps to a Bullet Proof Financial Plan: Mastering Cash Flow, SMART goals & more

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Email Marketing Made Easy: 5 Tips for Small Businesses

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How to manage remote teams

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Expert Insights: Q&A on Marketing & Finances

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Side hustle & small business crash course with Owen & Zara

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Strategies to Skyrocket Your Sales and Boost your Bottom Line, this Black Friday Cyber Monday

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Automate your work to save time and increase profits

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From Bean to Brand: Unpacking the Success Story of Golden Brown Coffee, with Sonam Sherpa

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Building a Beauty Empire Down Under: The Journey of Saint Jack Cosmetics with Beth Wilson

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How to use your property for business loans and investing, ft. Ben Sum

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Hiring your first staff member, the mobile pizza man and expanding your digital marketing presence.

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The story of Pearler & making wealth accessible

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Scaling your business: Tips for Expanding and Growing

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Time Management for Business Owners

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Hiring and Managing Employees - Best Practices for Small Business HR

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Financial Forecasting: Predicting Future Financial Performance

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Creating Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) - Documenting Processes for Consistency

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Building an Online Presence - Creating a Website That Converts

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The Power of Networking - Building Connections To Help Your Business Grow

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Startup Survival Kit: 5 Burning Questions New Business Owners Need to Answer

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Small Business Tech Tools: Must-have tools and software for efficiency

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The power of email marketing

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The Power of Building a Personal Brand

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Raising capital from fans, ft. Birchal co-founder Matt Vitale

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The #2 killer of small business (FREE Excel download)

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10 Game-Changing Questions to Transform Your Small Business Marketing Strategy

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Decoding Content Conversion: Unlocking Strategies for Success

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Data-Driven Success: Navigating Analytics for Optimal Results

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Tax Time! 10 Quick tax tips pre 30 June

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Marketing Insights with Zara: Navigating Trends, Avoiding Pitfalls, and Crafting Successful Campaigns

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How PocketSmith helps 100,000+ households save more money

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Mastering Marketing: Unveiling the 5 Pillars of Strategic Success

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Using AI tools to improve your marketing strategy

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How much should you spend on digital marketing & Google ads [Marketing Q&A]

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📈 5 things the Investing Pros never talk about | Rask Invest

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📈 The 10 truths of investing | Rask Invest

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📈 Where Owen invests & why | Rask Invest

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Work Backwards: a better way to live and work with Tim Duggan

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Q&A: using VAs, software to scale your business & building a fitness business from scratch

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SEO and Social Media Marketing | Marketing your Business Part #4

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Organic V Paid Marketing: Google, Meta, letterbox & beyond | Marketing your Business Part #3

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Email marketing essentials | Marketing your Business Part #2

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How to build a marketing strategy (for business owners) | Marketing your Business Part #1

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3x profit! Buying digital businesses for passive income! Ft. Matt & Liz Raad

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Built to sell: What it takes to make a killing from day 1?

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10 easy ways to unleash AI tools in your business

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5 "must know" small business finance tips

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Virtual Assistants: How can they help and what’s with all the talk around them?

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How I built a $2 billion IT distribution business, with Owen Rask [CROSS POST]

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How I built a $30 billion software compounder: WiseTech's Richard White on tech, culture & entrepreneurialism

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Trusts, trusts and more trusts | Live business Q&A

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Insurance: this is EVERYTHING you need to know about income protection, life and TPD

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How to earn 6 figures in school hours: Kate Toon on building passive income as a parent

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20 EPIC Australian business tricks (2024)

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Summary of 10 episodes, with Owen 🚀 #10

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How to hyperscale your profit, with Owen 🚀 #9

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Knowing your financials, with Danil 🚀 #8

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How to sell stuff, with Owen 🚀 #7

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Teams, with Jordan (quick episode) 🚀 #6

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Markerting with Owen: avatars, organic, paid and the power of email 🚀 #5

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Operations: automation & offshoring with Owen 🚀 #4

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Business models with Danil 🚀 #3

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Vision, strategy, SWOT with Jordan 🚀 #2

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Your WHY and a scorecard for life 🚀 #1

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Where the heck are ya? Owen's primer on the next 10 episodes

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MAKE MORE PROFIT: 24 business tips, tricks and hacks for 2024

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23 business lessons from 2023: what we learned from our business, guests & you

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Setting up holding companies, ecommerce profits, expand or die?

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Shane Parrish - how to remember what you read, automatic rules, positioning and rituals

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How business owners can celebrate Christmas

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How to price your products properly | an epic chat with Navarre Trousselot, founder of Navexa

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Automatic rules, why Owen loves OT businesses & getting business insurance

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The things I believe: Naomi Simson's journey with Shark Tank and Red Balloon (CROSS POST)

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How to sell (or buy!) a private business & Owen's free business checklist

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Why your business needs a website (and how to do it) - webinar invite

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The Hustle: Owen presents his strategies for growth to Alexander, owner of Midcoast Yard Services

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Q&A: Have you protected your personal ass(ets)? $4,000 financial planning & getting insurance

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Mailchimp, ActiveCampaign or Drip: Using credit cards for cash flow and buying a cafe

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Top 5 things to spend your money on in business

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Wheelie bin expansion, personal services income & the importance of focus

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The Hustle: My $1,000-per-week business I built while studying

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3 more ways your business will die... plus, WTF?!? Owen discovers you can use director loans to buy property!

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Navigating business structures miniseries: Companies

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4 SEO secrets any business can use & how to start a prawn farm

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Top business tools you should be using

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How do I reward staff with equity? How can I get investors for my business? What insurance do I need?

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5 questions you need to be asking your accountant.

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Navigating business structures miniseries: Trusts

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Navigating business structures miniseries: Partnerships & Joint Ventures

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📚 Buying Happiness: Learn to invest your time and money better with Kate Campbell [CROSS POST]

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9 easy ways to research a business idea & how Google SEO works

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Navigating business structures miniseries: Sole trader

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Q&A: Top 3 most profitable side hustles, how tradies can market & more!

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Protecting your IP, with intellectual property economist Michael Falk

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Good & Fugly: hacks for building an online brand through ecommerce

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Can my partner earn dividends from my business? Growing my handy man business & how to buy a business but not the company... Q&A is HERE!

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Should I use a $100k mortgage to buy a business, lines of credit & buying a crane

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Beating my imposter syndrome, re-investing in your business & why we're all a hot mess, ft. Emma Edwards from The Broke Generation

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Fake it till you make it, but don't eat the chicken: futurist Steve Sammartino on farming, Tesla, A.I. & why everyone is faking it [CROSS POST]

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A $50k loan to buy a cafe, in business with friends, when to pay yourself more & tax on offshoring explained [Q&A]

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7 ways to boost your business profits and grow fast this financial year

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Why I started business coaching

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Xero: Our top 5 reasons to ❤️ Xero

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Why franchises & "businesses in a box" can be very risky

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Is offshoring REALLY worth it? Degree-qualified & full time for... $1,200 a month? Owen, Jordan & Danil explain

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A new Xero? The rise of Hnry: a one-stop shop for sole traders? Ft. Managing Director Karan Anand

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Is my Tesla tax deductible? Buying a car for work, giving yourself a "pay rise" & FBT explained

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Rush Gold: how Jodi built a golden fintech business from scratch [CROSS POST]

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Make more profit from July 1st: Owen & Jordan's top 8 ways to crush your business financials and make more profit

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Want tax deductions? These 7 money-savers blew me away | Jordan shares 7 last-minute tax strategies

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Banned by LinkedIn: how I built a multi-million dollar mortgage broking business with no marketing budget, with Chris Bates

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My fitness and music side hustle, with Raskles Owen, Monique & Mel (LIVE special)

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Judo Bank CEO Joseph Healy explains good leadership, how to seize the opportunity & what not to do in business [Part 2/2]

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Measure twice and cut once: Judo Bank co-founder David Hornery on Project Greengate, founders in their 50s & acting on your idea [Part 1/2]

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How to buy a business instead of starting one: everything you want to know before risking huge cash on a private business

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How to use ChatGPT + Notion in every small business, company versus Sole Trader & paying yourself dividends

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Getting traction - why your business vision statement matters and how to build an org structure: Lessons from Gino Wickman’s Traction book

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How experts would spend $10,000 on marketing right now, small business website development 101 & using a marketing agency, ft. Nibble Digital

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550,000 customers in 7 years: the incredible story of Sharesies, with co-founders Leighton Roberts & Sonya Williams

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Secrets to actually scaling a business for bigger profits

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Managing shareholders, raising capital & how to communicate with investors, ft. Marcus Ritchie of Primary Markets

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Copyright, trademarks, patents, business names, domains... an expert overview of business IP by IP Australia

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Here are 3 biggest money wasters in small business (hint: one of them is you!)

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The true cost of staff: The 9 things you need to consider (and how to work it out)

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The 10 biggest (and painful) mistakes we see with 100s of businesses

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$22 million in yearly sales within 3 years, the amazing story of risk and reward with Taylor McPhail

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Run off your feet? 5 reasons you need to make fast (and good) decisions

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3 more traps business owners fall into during year 2 (just when you thought it was safe to go outside!)

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3 traps most business owners fall into during their first 12 months (avoid these at all costs!)

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Expert Q&A: a lawn mowing side hustle, 1 business with two ABNs, how to make acquisitions, should I buy or build a laundromat?

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6 things no-one told us about business (but I wish they did!) ft. Danil & Jordan

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A $20m renewable energy business: Nectr's Andrew Butler on culture, renewable energy and remote work

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Glen James on building a $1.2m podcast business, producing media, mental health and money

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A $60m payday (in 3 weeks), the future of fitness and growing a PT business ft. BFT's Cameron Falloon and Vitruvian's Jon Gregory

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Xero hacks & tricks, business finances on autopilot & 5 ways to automate the accounting stuff

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Insane ambition, changing the world, tall poppy syndrome and the definition of success, ft. Blackbird's Nick Crocker

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Why Niki Scevak invests in companies without any revenue; lessons from Australia's best venture capitalist

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9 things we wish we knew about running a business, ft. accountants Jordan & Danil from Grey Space Advisory

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Sam Hupert: Lessons from one of Australia's best CEOs

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URGENT: How to get a Director ID (don't risk a $13,000 fine) - tell your friends

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How to decide on business structures, selling your business (for zero tax!?) & getting legal advice, ft. Andrew Henshaw from Velocity Legal

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How Molly Benjamin built Ladies Finance Club into a national network

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A cake maker with 200,000 online followers | The ins-and-outs of social media, brand marketing & more Ft. Alisha Henderson [replay]

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0 to 100+ employees... in 30 years | Wayne Hooper, CEO of Laserbond

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Crowdfunding $140 million for Australian businesses, selling shares to fuel your growth & lessons learned | ft. Birchal's Matt Vitale

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$1 million cafes, how to roast great coffee & how Rumble Coffee was made

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When you should get paid (a guide for small business owners) [12/12]

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6 ways your small business will definitely die ☠️ [11/12]

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My best tools & apps for small business owners (save big!) [10/12]

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Small businesses: how to do your tax, HR & Super (free templates) [9/12]

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Small business accounting explained (in simple terms) [8/12]

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Choosing a business structure: sole trader, companies, trusts & ACNs v. ABNs [7/12]

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Getting money to fund your small business (equity, loans & beyond) [6/12]

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Australian small business experts (and how much they cost) [5/12]

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How to market your small business (a step-by-step guide) [4/12]

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Making small business plans & knowing your customer (free business plan template) [3/12]

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40%+ of Australian small businesses fail - here's what I'd do to avoid business failure [2/12]

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Growing Rask to $1 million, my small business journey [1/12] | Australian Business Podcast