Increasing productivity and performance to grow your business doesn’t just happen, and it certainly doesn’t happen overnight. Market research and benchmarking will be vital tools to capitalise on opportunities and adopt best practice techniques. Long gone is the industrial age when companies had little concept of, or interest in, market or consumer preferences. Today, in […]
Gavin Dixon shows how businesses can tap into technology to cut their costs. Every organisation from the nation’s largest multi-national corporation to your one-man neighbourhood plumber is touting its website, so much so that many of us don’t even take a second look. But lost in the cyber jungle is a world of opportunity that […]
Rob Lamers explains smart business practices in times of high inflation and rising interest rates. It’s clear, from the Reserve Bank’s recent blunt statement on the need to rein in inflation, that monetary policy will be tighter in the period ahead, leading to further rate rises and a leaner cash economy. In this environment, smarter […]
ANZ Small Business Specialists now available through any ANZ branch At ANZ, we support small business and understand that people who work for themselves need banking arrangements that are flexible enough to keep pace with their changing needs. That’s why we now have dedicated Small Business Specialists available through any branch. Better still, we’re opening […]
The compact, stylish Brother QL-570 Label printer is the secret to creating high-quality professional labels quickly and easily for a wide range of applications including envelopes, name badges, files, bar-coding and packages. Printing up to 68 labels per minute with a built-in automatic cutter and offering up to 300 X 600 dpi resolution, the QL-570 […]
The web has become a global storefront, providing consumers with infinite choice and freeing them to pick and choose from a huge range of products and services. This transparency has broken down trade barriers, removed the luxury of operating in a local market and made it increasingly challenging to compete on lowest price or even […]
Passing computers to new users rather than constantly buying new replacements will have a great effect on improving an organisation’s carbon footprint, but companies must make sure it is their PCs they recycle and not their corporate data. We’ve all seen the headlines when corporate data falls into the wrong hands, usually through a stolen […]
The recent share market downturn is likely to force many SME owners who are approaching retirement age to seek higher prices when selling their businesses to compensate for the reduced value of their superannuation investments. With the share market still uncertain and super funds likely to achieve only single digit growth in the year ahead, […]
Customer loyalty programs in the marketplace today all compete for the same thing— new and repeat business. The key to running a successful program is to plan wisely for it. Keeping in mind the old adage that says it is seven times more expensive to find a new customer than to retain an existing one, […]
There is a lot of hype in the market now about Web 2.0, the use of Wikis, Facebook and blogs and how they can help businesses gain a significant competitive advantage. While all these are great from a knowledge sharing perspective, they can add to the information overload that many business owners face today. As […]
