We’ve noticed all the makings of “community” within the hundreds of business owners and managers who are clients (and friends) of Talked About Marketing, which has our reflecting on why humans need to belong to a community. You’ll be hearing more from us on this topic but in the meantime, here is some thinking that […]

There is a resigned sadness among many small business owners like Barbara Gare from Y Natural, when they hear friends say they believe in buying local but don’t actually follow through. As small business owners and leaders we are right to feel disappointed in these friends while at the same time making sure that we […]

We can learn more by expecting things to be harder, according to Oxford professor of mathematics, Marcus du Sautoy, which is one of two small insights I shared on my regular small business segment with Richard Pascoe on FIVEaa last weekend. In small business, we don’t have the luxury of having the HR department organise […]

Could you work with your spouse or partner in the same business for 20+ years? Darren and Sharon Sutton have, and they seem to thrive at it. I was on Adelaide’s FIVEaa last weekend, with Richard Pascoe, and I shared the Kytons Bakery story which covers not only their 20 years of running Kytons, and […]