
Opinion: 3 Small Business Lessons we can Learn from the Success of “Heated Rivalry”
Doing same thing over and over so boring, Hollander, and we need to stop doing it. Here are three small business lessons we can learn from “Heated Rivalry”.
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Doing same thing over and over so boring, Hollander, and we need to stop doing it. Here are three small business lessons we can learn from “Heated Rivalry”.

At first glance, charging different prices for different people seems wildly unfair – but it’s actually about levelling the playing field.

Are you a cafe or restaurant owner, a psychologist, or an indie game studio? I want to work with you in 2026, and I’ll make your design project MUCH cheaper to sweeten the deal.

Today, I stumbled upon a directory of “Canberra’s best graphic designers” and realised the post was published in 2009 – I was thirteen years old. In this post, I chat about what happened between then and now; to get me from artistic Canberra teen picking her high school subjects, to booked-out freelance graphic and web designer with Australian government and international jobs under her belt.

2025 was incredibly challenging, and I learnt some critical business lessons to take into 2026. Want the goss about where I failed and how things need to change next year? Here it is.
I take a minute to talk about what’s happened this year, then Christmas leave, project deferrals, earlybird discounts, and price changes. Please note the content in this article is quite heavy.