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Bronwyn Reid

My name is Bronwyn Reid, and I am a small business enthusiast, or nut, depending on your perspective. I’m a serial small-business owner who has started three award-winning businesses from Regional Queensland, proving to myself (and others) that being a small-business owner in a regional area is actually a valid lifestyle choice.  Apart from starting and running businesses, I was a part-time university lecturer for 12 years. Now, I can combine my two main drivers – education and small business success (particularly in regional areas), through my speaking, writing, workshops, training programs, and advocacy. My specialty, and the subject of my first book, Small Company, Big Business, is the relationship between big companies and their small company suppliers. These two parties need each other, but they speak different languages. My job is to help them understand each other, and create valuable commercial relationships. I believe that without a vibrant small-business sector, Australia has no heart. It is small businesses that make communities successful. My second book ‘Small Company, Big Crisis: How To Prepare For, Respond To, And Recover From A Business Crisis’ takes on that theme – creating sustainable businesses.

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The four Cs of building business systems

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What is the most important component of business success?

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Unfair contracts affecting small businesses: will they finally become illegal?

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Now the election is over, how is your PESTLE looking?

Post election the environment will increasingly become the number one, big-ticket item for every SME owner and manager t...

We talk a lot about resilience, but what does it really mean?

There is a need to think a bit more about how we are using resilience in the aftermath of a disaster that has cost lives...
Accounts payable

What the Payment Times Report means for small businesses

This first Payment Times Report marks an important milestone in the long, drawn-out saga of getting big companies to pay...
regions, regional businesses, virtual

Australia is moving to the regions…or are we just shifting the cities?

Statistics show that Australians moving from the big cities are moving to other big cities near the big cities they just...
recessions

The next business crisis is inevitable – why are we always surprised when it happens?

While nobody can accurately tell what is ahead, even a small amount of preparation can be the difference between surviv...

The impact of force majeure clauses in contracts post COVID-19

Force majeure clauses are likely to get longer as they try to take account of different types of trigger events, and the...
failed venture start-up

Rising above failure

Failure should not be taken as the end of one's dreams or aspirations but a temporary setback that need not hinder the p...