Inside Small Business

18/06/2026

Practicing lawyer Katrina Uttam’s heritage involved ghee, which has been used for centuries in Eastern traditions. Katrina’s her own great grandfather started each day by adding a spoonful to his tea to line the gut and aid digestion. It had the added side effect of making his skin glow.

Katrina saw that in Western markets, ghee remained positioned as a cooking ingredient, overlooked as a wellness staple. That insight became Drops of Gold, an ingestible wellness product that repositions ghee as an aspirational daily ritual.

Read more: https://insidesmallbusiness.com.au/latest-news/qa-a-golden-eastern-tradition-drops-into-western-wellness?utm_source=social&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=2026-06-18

17/06/2026

The Victorian Government’s introduction of mandatory work from home (WFH) legislation is “a solution searching for a problem”, the Business Council of Australia (BCA) says. https://insidesmallbusiness.com.au/technology/digital/ai-slop-in-the-books-how-businesses-are-losing-money-through-poor-advice?utm_source=social&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=2026-06-18

Victorian Government News

Australian businesses are incurring financial losses after relying on general-purpose AI tools for accounting, tax and financial advice.

17/06/2026

Let’s be honest – founders start their businesses to make money, not to spend it. The vast majority of start-ups look to social media as a key plank in establishing brand awareness and promoting their product or service. However, as we covered in detail in the previous issue of our quarterly magazine, the cost of social media advertising has shot up in the last few years.

In the latest episode of Small Biz Fix, Tim Ladhams is joined by Sarah Cichy (Piccolo PR & Communications) and 🥤Manon Beauchamp-Tardieu (Little Green Panda™) to flip the script — and show exactly how to leverage social media at little-to-no cost.

🎧 Listen now: https://insidesmallbusiness.com.au/latest-news/the-small-biz-fix-episode-9-cost-effective-social-media-for-start-ups?utm_source=social&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=2026-06-17

16/06/2026

The business community in Victoria has launched a business-led solutions platform to strengthen the state’s economic competitiveness and unlock new growth opportunities.

The business community in Victoria has launched a business-led solutions platform to strengthen the state’s economic competitiveness and unlock new growth opportunities.

15/06/2026

In the final excerpt of our investigation into the changing cost of acquisition of social media for SMEs we talk to Zoe Goodhardt. Zoe is a Partner at TAG, a digital growth consultancy that brings together strategy, people, marketing and technology to unlock growth across the full customer journey. The company started 11 years ago. It works on the basis that growth doesn’t come from one channel in isolation. Rather, it comes from aligning brand, systems and people – and now increasingly AI – so they work in concert.

Read more on Inside Small Business:

The most effective social media strategy for SMEs is showing up regularly with clear, authentic messaging that reflects their brand.

15/06/2026

Having spent years inside high-pressure service environments, business coach Rene Van Delft understands how quickly inconsistency erodes trust and profit – here are her insights into maintaing consistent customer service.

Small businesses rarely lose customers dramatically – they lose them quietly, gradually, one inconsistent interaction at a time.

14/06/2026

Practising barrister and Harvard Business School alumna Laina Chan is disrupting the traditional legal profession. Laina has developed a risk management tool after recognising a structural gap in existing legal research tools. She initially developed MiAI Law for her own legal practice to plug this gap.

“There was no AI system that embedded legal reasoning into its architecture,” Laina explains. “Law is not just retrieval. It is reasoning from facts and principles. MiAI Law is built to follow that same discipline.”

https://insidesmallbusiness.com.au/latest-news/the-ai-driven-risk-management-tool-disrupting-a-traditional-industry?utm_source=social&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=2026-06-15

12/06/2026

Australia’s SMEs are continuing to push forward, but confidence is starting to fall in the wake of a range of issues.

The revelation comes from new research conducted by both Prospa and YouGov for the May edition of Prospa’s SME Sentiment Report.

12/06/2026

Men’s Health Week, from 15 to 21 June, is an opportunity to address the risks of ‘pushing through’. Many tradies and small-business owners consider getting on with the job is a fundamental part of work culture. But the majority do not realise, often until it is too late, the impact this stoic attitude is having on their mental health.

Only 28 per cent of men running a small business are prepared to seek support when they're under pressure, compared to 50 per cent of women.

11/06/2026

Men’s Health Week, from 15 to 21 June, is an opportunity to address the risks of ‘pushing through’. Many tradies and small-business owners consider getting on with the job is a fundamental part of work culture. But the majority do not realise, often until it is too late, the impact this stoic attitude is having on their mental health.

https://insidesmallbusiness.com.au/latest-news/its-okay-for-men-running-small-businesses-to-seek-support?utm_source=social&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=2026-06-12