{"id":241,"date":"2012-01-02T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T18:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/?p=241"},"modified":"2014-08-27T07:45:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T12:45:30","slug":"rural-australian-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2012\/01\/rural-australian-businesses.html","title":{"rendered":"Rural Australian businesses outperforming urban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A headline like,\u00a0&#8220;Regional and rural small businesses outperform metropolitan-based businesses,&#8221; is sure to get my attention. This one is from Australia, and mirrors U.S. trends.<\/p>\n<p>In Australia:<\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pipwilson\/540464842\/\" title=\"Exchange Hotel, Grenfell by Pip_Wilson, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Exchange Hotel, Grenfell\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1082\/540464842_18dac680fe_m.jpg\" width=\"240\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Business looks good at the\u00a0Exchange Hotel, <br \/>in Grenfell, Australia (population 1900).<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pipwilson\/540464842\/\">Photo (CC) by\u00a0Pip Wilson.<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All small business monthly growth for October 2011 was 2.8%, while regional and rural small businesses grew at 4.7%.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The year to date growth for\u00a0all business\u00a0was 1.9%, compared to rural small business\u00a0at 2.7%.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, rural small business in Australia is doing very well, based on data from\u00a0ANZ Australia and New Zealand Banking Group. They issue monthly sales trends reports on small business, based on transactions processed through their merchant systems.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like more detail, you can read the press release or download the PDF version with graphs from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noodls.com\/viewNoodl\/12260164\/anz---australia--new-zealand-banking-group-ltd\/small-business-sales-trends-grow-in-october\">Noodls:\u00a0Small Business sales trends grow in October<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How is rural small business doing in your country?<\/p>\n<p><em>New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/guided-tour.html\"> Guided Tour<\/a>. Like what you see? <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/get-updates.html\">Get our updates<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A headline like,\u00a0&#8220;Regional and rural small businesses outperform metropolitan-based businesses,&#8221; is sure to get my attention. This one is from Australia, and mirrors U.S. trends. In Australia: Business looks good at the\u00a0Exchange Hotel, in Grenfell, Australia (population 1900).Photo (CC) by\u00a0Pip Wilson. All small business monthly growth for October 2011 was 2.8%, while regional and rural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,28,8,36],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7093,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/7093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}