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Getting naked with government and big business
By Nett Administrator on the 15th April 2008A government or large company contract is the Golden Fleece for many small businesses: it spells stability and cash flow. But, warns Marguerite McKinnon, don’t go in without first protecting your butt. “The biggest mistake small business people make is going in naked to see big...
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Blink and you’ll miss it
By Nett Administrator on the 25th March 2008Can you keep up in 2008? Marguerite McKinnon looks at what’s being done to help small business take the leap into ecommerce and reach all those hard-to-get-at places around the world.Do you remember when the sight of someone talking to themselves on the street made you cross to the other...
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Paper, Scissors Rock: Cutting out Visy Cartels
By Nett Administrator on the 18th February 2008In November last year, ACCC Chairman Graeme Samuel decided that he’d had a gutful of small businesses being at the mercy of big companies and cartels à la Visy Paper and Amcor while nothing was being done to stop it.“Thus the reason why we have advocated... indeed, since 2004 when...
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You don't bring me flowers
By Marguerite McKinnon on the 12th November 2007Marguerite McKinnon offers a ray of hope for small business owners across Australia. After 14 years as a news and politics reporter, she’s comfortable taking on even the most bureaucratic of bureaucrats. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU WERE GIVEN AN UNEXPECTED PRESENT? A lovely bunch of flowers? A...
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Red tape - Marguerite McKinnon
Marguerite McKinnon
Marguerite McKinnon is a reporter with Channel Seven on Today Tonight. She was previously Federal Political Reporter with 2UE in the Canberra press gallery, international correspondent for Channel News Asia and has also worked for CNN, Ten, WIN, 2WS...
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