MAKING FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES STRONG THOUGH SMALL BUSINESS

Making Families and Communities Strong Through Small Business Mara West, Honours Thesis, Murdoch University, 2007CS 2a recipe for businesses failing. If supportis continued throughout the life of thefunding allocation, and this meansregular visits to businesses as well ascontact through the electronic medium,there may be more successfulbusinesses.Being a lone business operator meansthat a lot of the time you operate inisolation and being in a very remotelocation means it’s even harder to buildnetworks, source information and partswhenever there is a breakdown of themachinery.As a lone operator means that it costsme thousands of dollars every time Ihave a breakdown in terms of loss ofincome and expenditure for machineryparts. I can’t afford the time it takes meto order parts over the phone and thenhave to wait for them to arrive as well asdeal with the paperwork that all thisinvolves.Can’t take time off to write fundingapplications so I’m at a disadvantagewhen contracts are advertised.Funding bodies don’t let you know aboutchanges in the industry.Tyranny of distancePoor communication systemsMaintenance and repairs are expensive– waiting time and transporting truckback to baseTime taken to search for appropriateparts46