Jen Bishop

Research in Motion made PR gold today when they employed Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am to launch the latest BlackBerry.

These days, most business owners have a smartphone but are they making life easier or making us a slave to work? We teamed up with BlackBerry to ask small business owners what they think.

The move from hairdresser to celebrity hairdresser has meant big business for Troy Thompson, star of hit makeover show 10 Years Younger in 10 Days. But doing people’s hair certainly isn’t the easy job some imagine.

Husband and wife Rhynie and Mark Cawood took a gamble when they started their niche printed fabric and wallpaper business. But it’s paid off and Publisher Textiles recently took home the prestigious award for NSW Telstra Business of the Year.

Three years after he moved, ActionCOACH to Las Vegas, Australia’s favourite entrepreneur Brad Sugars says Australians are some of the best businesspeople in the world. He shares his advice for SME owners with editor Jen Bishop.

The family business behind Nad’s beauty products is making a foray into the competitive acne market this week.

At a time when bankers and banking employees were fighting to stave off recession and secure their jobs, an optimistic and entrepreneurial few were walking the other way and risking all they knew for the holy grail: running their own business.

I’m delighted to announce that we have appointed Red PR as the winning agency in our Small Agency, Big Ideas? competition.

Wow. Whoever would’ve thought when we launched our Dynamic Business magazine PR pitch competition that nine agencies would give us their ideas? Not me!

Assume the personal trainer would be one of the first ‘luxury’ items to be ditched when times are tough and you’d be wrong. Business has never been better for Andrew Simmons, head of growing Australian franchise Vision Personal Training. He spoke exclusively to Dynamic Business on the business’ tenth anniversary.