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Maria Pantalone, Infinite Growth

Maria Pantalone, Infinite Growth

Infinite Growth works with individuals and businesses to improve their communication skills so that they can professionally present their products ... Read more

Rebecca Lynn, Lightbulb Coaching

Rebecca Lynn, Lightbulb Coaching

Lightbulb Coaching helps people find solutions to problems that are keeping them from shining brightly through face-to-face and phone coaching sess... Read more

Tom Evison, Enigma Technologies

Tom Evison, Enigma Technologies

Enigma Technologies provides IT implementation, support and deployment to a wide range of clients, from home users to multi nationals. Read more

Michael Vincent, Sports Partners

Michael Vincent, Sports Partners

Sports Partners is a free, fun site where people can find other people, clubs, or businesses for sports and hobbies. Read more

Karen Churchill, The Churchill Consultancy

Karen Churchill, The Churchill Consultancy

Karen Churchill helps her clients achieve their goals by communicating as well as possible with the people who matter to them. This can be done by ... Read more

Peter Crocker, Sam Leader, Robert Gerrish - Flying Solo

Peter Crocker, Sam Leader, Robert Gerrish - Flying Solo

Peter Crocker, marketing head honcho, Sam Leader, editorial big cheese and Robert Gerrish, founder and general nuisance spill the beans. Read more

Tania Shirgwin, BizEez Virtual Solutions

Tania Shirgwin, BizEez Virtual Solutions

BizEez Virtual Solutions specialises in assisting businesses with their online marketing needs through social media, email marketing and WordPress ... Read more

Amy Barry, Pendle Party and Event Hire

Amy Barry, Pendle Party and Event Hire

Pendle Party and Event Hire is a family business that offers party and event equipment for hire to south east Queensland. Read more

Sandy Naidu, OzKidsActivities Pty Ltd

Sandy Naidu, OzKidsActivities Pty Ltd

OzKidsActivities is an online directory for kids activities, classes, entertainment, events and birthday party venues. Read more

Fiona Johnston, Peach Business Management

Fiona Johnston, Peach Business Management

Fiona works with small business owners getting started or growing an existing business. Her services include creating business plans, tax planning ... Read more

Emma Bannister, Presentation Studio

Emma Bannister, Presentation Studio

Presentation Studio offers a complete presentation design service, from PowerPoint Templates and Design, and Training to Public Speaker coaching. T... Read more

Alex Levashov, Altima Interactive

Alex Levashov, Altima Interactive

Altima Interactive provides web business consulting, web design and web development to help people grow their business online. Read more

Jan Freitag, Proxim Group

Jan Freitag, Proxim Group

Combining both business coaching and business consulting services, the Proxim Group offers a fully comprehensive approach to helping small business... Read more

Alison Taylor, Cloverlea Designs

Alison Taylor, Cloverlea Designs

We are a small online retailer that sells gorgeous babies and children’s bed linen and homewares to Australian mums. Read more

Ann Nixon, Sydney Psych.

Ann Nixon, Sydney Psych.

Ann Nixon provides broad counselling and psychotherapy services to clients in the inner city and eastern suburbs of Sydney. Read more

Emma Wilson, Upclose & Virtual

Emma Wilson, Upclose & Virtual

Upclose & Virtual provides professional, cost effective, secretarial services for businesses and individuals throughout Australia to reduce the bur... Read more

Terri Mitchell, The Profit Frog

Terri Mitchell, The Profit Frog

The Profit Frog is The ASSET and CASH FLOW MAXIMISER for SMEs, searching for cash flow problems at their source, helping create cash flow budgets a... Read more

Donna Garrett-Young, Home Building Made Easy

Donna Garrett-Young, Home Building Made Easy

Donna Garrett-Young has been a passionate renovator and builder for nearly 20 years, and is the author of the book 'Home Building Made Easy - Five ... Read more

Uri Maimon, Nominal Accounting

Uri Maimon, Nominal Accounting

Nominal Accounting Software develops, sell and supports a micro business management software. Read more

Richard Jenner, The Type Shed

Richard Jenner, The Type Shed

Richard Jenner does graphic design, for any application - print, web, packaging, shop fronts, signs... anything that requires text / images arrange... Read more

Maria Pantalone, Infinite Growth
Rebecca Lynn, Lightbulb Coaching
Tom Evison, Enigma Technologies
Michael Vincent, Sports Partners
Karen Churchill, The Churchill Consultancy
Peter Crocker, Sam Leader, Robert Gerrish - Flying Solo
Tania Shirgwin, BizEez Virtual Solutions
Amy Barry, Pendle Party and Event Hire
Sandy Naidu, OzKidsActivities Pty Ltd
Fiona Johnston, Peach Business Management
Emma Bannister, Presentation Studio
Alex Levashov, Altima Interactive
Jan Freitag, Proxim Group
Alison Taylor, Cloverlea Designs
Ann Nixon, Sydney Psych.
Emma Wilson, Upclose & Virtual
Terri Mitchell, The Profit Frog
Donna Garrett-Young, Home Building Made Easy
Uri Maimon, Nominal Accounting
Richard Jenner, The Type Shed
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Welcome to Flying Solo

Flying Solo communityAustralia's solo and micro business community.


As the nation's biggest small business community, we're here to help you create a business and a life that you are proud to call your own. So let's get started!

We have over 46,000 members and we'd love you to join us.

in Australia's biggest small business community!
Flying Solo welcomes around 3,000 daily visitors, enjoys a Google pagerank of 6 and features in Nielson NetRatings Top 50 Australian business sites.
We now have over 37,000 members and we'd love you to join us. Select from these membership options

How can we help you?

Advice from our 1,400+ articles

Fresh articles from our team of experts are published each weekday. Read how to get going in  startup then find out more about technology, marketing and finance. Plus there's plenty on how to work smarter and live smarter, too! Stay up-to-date with all our latest articles through our email newsletters which go to over 26,000 subscribers twice a week. 

ABA AuditedFlying Solo features in Nielson NetRatings Top 50 Australian business sites and as a member of the Audit Bureaux of Australia (ABA), is independently audited ensuring our website traffic figures are accurate, transparent and compliant with industry measurement rules.

For our up to date Australian website traffic figures, please visit our advertising page.

Exposure for your business

Get the word out for free in our members directory or expose yourself by joining Business Class and gain a priority directory listing, sitewide promotions, SEO backlinks, a copy of our shiny new book and more... all for just 19.95/month. No contracts. Money-back guarantee. Details here.

Or visit our advertising page for more promotional options. This article explains what you will you get from a free Flying Solo membership.

Information about the micro business community

There are over a million solo businesses in Australia, yet curiously little has been known about what makes us tick...until now. With over 1,300 Australian respondents, our survey Understanding Micro Business 2010-2011 is the largest of its kind.

To get a real feel for what this community is all about, have a read of the Soloist's Manifesto, extracted from our book Flying Solo Revisited - How to go it alone in business.  

Connection through our forums and live events

Head over to the Flying Solo forums to find out what our 26,000+ forum community are chatting about today. Or enjoy real life connection at our next Flying Solo LIVE! event.  

Flying Solo RevisitedInspiration from Flying Solo the book

We've proud to bring you our brand new book Flying Solo Revisited - How to go it alone in business. The original bestseller has been fully updated for a new wave of modern business owners. Whether you're planning to start your own venture or looking to totally overhaul and rejuvinate your existing business, this is a comprehensive guide. The book combines motivational and practical advice, and is written in the upbeat voice you've come to expect from the Flying Solo team. The book is available for just $24.95, plus postage and handling. Grab your copy here.

The soloists behind Flying Solo


Peter Crocker, marketing; Sam Leader, operations; Robert Gerrish, founder

Our business also enjoys editorial support from Lisa Crocker, while Jayne Tancred keeps the forum flying in her role as concierge. Without their support, this community would grind to a halt. 

We’re all here to help you create a business and a life that you are proud to call your own.  

Feel free to contact us or simply start exploring the site.

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PS: A quick toot on our own trumpet

In 2009, Flying Solo was deemed a site of 'national significance' by the National Library of Australia and was selected for preservation within their Pandora web archive project. In the same year we were chosen by the Oxford University Press for inclusion in one of their Commerce Level 6 publications. Yay! 

      

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Small Business is Australia's fastest growing sector – this business community site was created for those running a small business of one to five people. Here the solo and micro business owner will find small business forums, a small business directory, free resources, help, tips and advice on: starting a small business; working smarter when working from home; effective small business marketing; small business networking; the solo psyche; staying balanced as a small business owner; small business technology advice and small business finance tips.

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