We wanted to know more about some of our active forum members…… so we asked them
Steve spoke to Sue from Abacus Screens……..

1. How did you get started in business?
LOL I think I got started in business from birth. My Mum and Dad had corner stores and I was taught business skills at […]

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Welcome to the February 27, 2008 edition of Carnival of Australia.
 Thanks to all the contributors, some great stuff there, enjoy your reading! 
Elias presents The day we said “sorry”! posted at Ramblings of an Australian teacher, saying, “I hope I can still squeeze in the current carnival.” - Yes and No Elias! I […]

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We see so many home based businesses these days, running small ebay stores then graduating to having there own online store. A lot of home based business have blogs like this one as well.
We see a lot of them in the FBT forum and places like The Messy Desk
I noticed something interesting though. I noticed […]

I, like many of you, know running a small business can be a lonely existence - you need to wear many hats and keep up to date with the latest developments and thinking. It was one of the reasons we started this site.
But I am not one to rest on my laurels and just use […]

Have you heard of the 30 Day Challenge yet?
Judging by how slow the servers have been for the last 24 hours I guess a lot of you have!
The 30 Day Challenge is a great concept by Ed Dale (and a couple of other guys whose names escape me right this second). The guys are offering […]

I was getting my daily dose of Darren Rowse today and saw a very interesting new concept.
This has enormous potential, especially for those of us who can convey thoughts and concepts much better standing at a white board than we can with the written word.
I love it! I can’t wait to learn how to […]

I feel we have a fairly unique product here at Free Business Tips.
One of the reasons the blog and the rest of the site is unique is because, well, to be honest we had no idea what a blog ’should be’ and what it ’should do’ and what they features ’should have’.
This means that we […]

I was checking out our Technorati rank today and saw that Adam Brucker; Founder and Managing Director of Criterion Advisors, a training and consulting firm based in Boulder, Colorado has named our site in his list of 143 Of The Best Business Links On The Web.
I thought that was fanatasic (of course) and headed over […]

Ok, I admit it. I am a raving fan of one of my suppliers.
I tell my friends and colleagues about them.
I have referred dozens of people to them.
I have used them several times, and plan to use them again.
Ashop Commerce is a leading provider of hosted shopping cart software. They offer a complete solution for […]

Well, I guess not much got done that afternoon, but I bet there is never any bad ideas there….

Businesses help to build a $1 Million dream…
A 22 year old entrepreneur aims to make $1 Million whilst bed bound with a dislocated hip and small businesses are helping out. Richard Stratton came up with the theonebigad.com business web site whilst bed bound with a dislocated hip. He plans to use the money to promote […]

Networking is not just about numbers, it’s about relationships. It’s quality over quantity. It’s not about meeting as many people as you can; it’s about helping as many people as you can.
We network to create mutually beneficial relationships with our peers, clients and potential clients.
So how has it come about that networking has ended […]

What’s so hard about branding?
I think it’s the little things that are hard sometimes. Well, at least it seems to me the little things can be the easiest to get wrong.

I once worked as a store manager for a fast food chicken chain, (WOW, I was young then).
I learned lots of fantastic rules for good business there, but probably the most important was to always walk in the front

I love talking to successful people.
It might be an entrepreneur I read about in a magazine, a biography, someone I saw speak, the top sales person in a large company, or someone I just heard of.If its someone I admire I usually try to talk to them and ask questions about how they “did it”. […]