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20 orders to 700 a month: The Founder Friday story of Natalie May

This Founder Friday, Natalie May shares how she built Adelaide's Natalie May Scrapbooking—growing a $20,000 papercraft side hustle into a nearly million-dollar business in just five years.

That missed call wasn’t nothing. It was a customer, and probably a sale

AIIMS Group analysed 207,000+ calls to Australian SMEs and found one in ten never gets answered, says co-founder Kynan Albassit.

Three hours per decision. That’s what bad HR data is costing leaders

Leaders spend three-plus hours hunting for data before one pay decision, HiBob's 2026 study finds, and only 5% face no obstacles at all.

Before you post another job ad, break the role down first

National Skills Week celebrates training. Mark Coyle argues businesses also need a plan for the gap they're feeling right now.

Training data quality determines model quality. Voices delivers custom or pre-built voice datasets—directed by real professional talent, not scraped audio—across any language, accent, or emotional range. 

Choose from 800+ hours of character voice performances, 1,723 hours of QA'd conversational data across 56 emotional states, or 1,000 hours of expressive, multi-language data with full emotion tagging. Every dataset ships with clear licensing, signed consent, and usage rights baked in, so your legal team sleeps easy and your model trains on data it can actually use. 

7 of the world's top 10 AI labs already use Voices. Request free samples and hear the difference professionally directed voice data makes.

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Creators lock in holiday calendars 90 days out, before brands finalize commission strategy and long before Black Friday.

The 90-Day Holiday Sprint guide from Levanta helps brands get creators driving holiday demand while competitors are still recruiting, from commission structure to onboarding to scaling.

Your 90-day countdown starts now.

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