Simon Jones
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 4
- Latest publication
- Sep 8, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for SmartCompany
- Top 500K sites
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- Aug 7, 2026
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Free masterclass: Small business guide to your best sales season yet (opens the original)
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If you like this article, share it with your friends. The sales season can deliver some of the biggest trading days of the year. It can also chew through your margins, your marketing budget and your sanity if you go in without a plan. So now’s the time to get your business prepped. Join Business Builders editor Cec Busby and e-commerce and sales expert Paul Waddy for a free masterclass, Small Business Guide to Your Best Sales Season Yet, and get practical strategies to get your business ready fo
If your IT team is permanently ‘firefighting’, it could be a sign of a deeper problem (opens the original)
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If you like this article, share it with your friends. For growing multi-site businesses, that tipping point usually arrives faster than anyone is expecting – and the cause is mostly structural. “You start to see it in the day to day,” says Danny Price, executive general manager of enterprise and business delivery at Optus. “IT teams become firefighters. They become less strategic about where they’re planning their year ahead, and too tactical in the business. That’s a sure sign that customers ar
"We're finally at the point where it's a reality": The AI network changes Australian businesses need to know about (opens the original)
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If you like this article, share it with your friends. For decades now, the network has been treated as an afterthought. You design it, install it, then leave it alone. And as long as it keeps working, nobody thinks about it. But that approach no longer holds up, according to Andrew Fox, general manager of HPE Networking for Australia and New Zealand. “That isn’t what you need for a business in 2026 and beyond,” Fox tells SmartCompany. “You need a network that is dynamic and can change, and can a
How an outsider created one of Australia's biggest modern game exports - and a cure for loneliness (opens the original)
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If you like this article, share it with your friends. Steven Medway had always felt like an outsider. The Sydney-based gaming entrepreneur lost his dad at 10 and spent years drifting between jobs, houses, courses and hobbies, looking for connection. He turned to board games. The inspiration to create his own was born out of a desire to fulfill that need for connection he and many others feel in modern life. A decade on, Blood on the Clocktower is one of Australia’s most successful modern game ex
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