How to Stop Losing Jobs to Missed Calls (The $0 Fix)
Every missed call is a potential job gone. Here’s a free fix that takes five minutes to set up — no app, no subscription.
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How to Stop Chasing Invoices Manually (The $0 Fix)
If you use Xero, automated invoice reminders are already included in your plan — most people just haven’t turned them on. Here’s how to set them up in ten minutes.
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How to Win Back Customers Who’ve Gone Quiet (The $0 Fix)
Got customers who visited once and disappeared? A simple automated re-engagement sequence in MailerLite’s free plan can bring them back — without you doing anything after setup.
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How to Automate Staff Rostering Reminders and Shift Confirmations
Most no-shows happen because someone forgot. Not because they didn’t care, not because something went wrong: they just didn’t check the roster, didn’t see the update, or assumed someone else had the shift covered. For small businesses running on tight margins, one absent staff member can mean a cancelled booking, a short-staffed floor, or a…
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How to Fill Slow Days Using Your Customer List (The $0 Fix)
It’s quiet. Staff are rostered, stock is prepped, and no one’s coming in. Here’s how to fill slow days using a customer list you probably already have — for $0.
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How to Get ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok to Cite Your Business (What Actually Works)
The question everyone’s asking A post on r/Entrepreneur this week asked how to get ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini to cite your business over competitors. It got 66 comments. Most of them were guessing. We’re not guessing. SmallBizAI.au gets cited by AI tools roughly 169 times a day, based on Bing Webmaster Tools data. We’ve spent…
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How to Automate Your End-of-Week Wrap-Up Report
Every Friday afternoon it’s the same routine. You dig through Slack, check last week’s numbers, pull figures from three different tabs, and spend an hour writing a summary nobody asked for but everyone expects. That’s a week’s worth of time every month doing something a machine can do for you. Here’s how to set up…
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How to Use AI to Do Your Own Market Research for Free
You don’t need a $5,000 market research report A decade ago, knowing what your customers wanted (and what your competitors were doing) cost serious money. You hired a research firm, waited six weeks, and got a PDF full of charts that were already out of date. Now you can get most of that same intelligence…
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How to Automate Lead Follow-Up From Your Website Enquiry Form
Most enquiry forms are black holes. Someone fills in the form, hits submit, and then waits. Maybe they get a generic “we’ll be in touch” message. Maybe they get nothing. Meanwhile you’re flat out on a job, and by the time you get back to them that afternoon or the next morning, they’ve already called…
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How to Automate New Client Onboarding: From Inquiry to First Invoice (2026)
Most service businesses lose time: and sometimes clients: in the gap between “we’d love to work with you” and the first invoice. Someone has to collect details, follow up on missing information, copy data between systems, and remember to send the welcome email. That whole process can run automatically. Here’s how to build it with…
