No one is happy when you buy a coffee, a meal or even an item of furniture and as you tap your card a few extra cents or dollars are drained from your account.

Next Monday (October 28) is D-Day for the 3G network as it will be shut down, but I'm worried it could also put many small, family and farming businesses out of business because they don't think it will affect them.

Bruce Billson Published in The Daily Telegraph and the Courier-Mail15 October 2024When a small business has a problem with a Big Tech digital platform…

Bruce Billson  Published in the Bendigo Advertiser and ACM Network14 October, 2024BIG tech digital platform providers need to urgently lift their…

More needs to be done to support and recognise small businesses.

This week we celebrate National Family Business Day - on Thursday, September 19.

Small, family and farming businesses should take urgent action to make sure they are not caught out by the 3G switch-off coming in October.

Mary runs a small civil construction business but one of her customers, another small business, had not paid their $20,000 bill for 180 days.

Small, family and farming businesses should urgently make sure they are not caught out by the 3G switch-off which is now scheduled to take place on 28 October.

Small business is a big deal. But not as big as it used to be. Economic contribution has dropped from 40 per cent to 33 per cent since 2006 and share of private sector jobs at 42 per cent, down from over half. We are sleepwalking towards a big corporate…