Jennifer Blake
Sourcebottle v Pressloft – which is best for small business?
We asked the two top DIY marketing services – Pressloft and Sourcebottle – to sell the benefits of their service to small business. Here’s what they had to say…
Three entrepreneurs, frying high
A clever pun, a niche idea and wide market appeal have helped Lord of the Fries achieve the impossible in the Australian fast food market: launching a successful vegetarian chain.
The startup helping SMEs get paid
Sick of dealing with bad debt, Colin Porter launched a credit reporting service for small businesses. He tells Dynamic Business about dealing with debtors, bureaucrats and finding your space in the market.
Meet the entrepreneur behind IF Telecom
Andrew Branson was a broke British backpacker when he noticed a gap in the Australian telco market and launched IF Telecom. Now 26, he’s successfully competing with the likes of Telstra.
Marketing with your website
You can’t always be present in an export market, but your website is. So you need to get it right.
RBA leaves rates unchanged at 4.75 percent
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has announced it will leave the cash rate unchanged at 4.75 percent for the tenth consecutive month.
Out of the box franchising
Noodle Box started with one store in Melbourne and now stir-fries more than one million kilograms of noodles a year. Managing Director David Milne explains how the franchising model turned their business into a raging success.
Sittin’ Pretty at Milan Direct
Milan Direct’s online-only business model has made designer furniture accessible to a generation of Australians born long after Eames made his famous chair. Founder Dean Ramler explains why his business is growing uncontrollably.
For Love and Money: Blogging Part 5
For most people, blogs are a small creative window read by family and friends. Dynamic Business profiles five women whose home hobby became big business. This time, meet Lucy Feagins of the Design Files.
Networking: It’s not what you know, it’s who you know
Success can be all about who you know, not what you know. The Australian Institute of Management offers some Do’s and Don’ts of networking.
Wheeler of Fortune
Tony Wheeler, founder of Lonely Planet tells Dynamic Business why he’d like to work in airport security, can’t stay in the same hotel twice and won’t stop travelling.
For Love and Money: Blogging Part 4
For most people, blogs are a small creative window read by family and friends. Dynamic Business profiles five women whose home hobby became big business. This time, meet Lady Melbourne.
For Love and Money: Blogging Part 3
For most people, blogs are a small creative window read by family and friends. Dynamic Business profiles five women whose home hobby became big business. This time, meet Girl with a Satchel.
For Love and Money: Blogging Part 2
For most people, blogs are a small creative window read by family and friends. Dynamic Business profiles five women whose home hobby became big business. This time, meet Not Quite Nigella.
For love and money: Blogging
For most people, blogs are a small creative window read by family and friends. Dynamic Business profiles five women whose home hobby became big business. Up first: Polka Dot Bride
Whale of a time
Yiying Lu designed ‘Lifting a Dreamer’ as a happy e-card to send to friends. But when Twitter bought the image from iStockphoto, it became a global phenomenon. The 20-something graphic designer tells Dynamic Business how talent, timing and a tweet or two came together to change her life.
Dan Murray of Sly Underwear gets down to business
Gold Coast entrepreneur Dan Murray was just 17 when he started Sly Underwear. He tells how the burgeoning business came together with a little help from his friends.
Online group buying—what’s the big deal?
Dynamic Business talks to five of the biggest daily deal companies about what group buying could do for your business. But don’t take their word for it! We also checked in with their clients.
LivingSocial attracts $400 million investment
LivingSocial has picked up $400 million in funding as part of its push to win market share in Australia’s daily deals sector. CEO Colin Fabig announced the funding today, saying it highlighted the strength of the daily deals sector in Australia.
Men seek money and progression, women want culture and flexibility
Men and women are from different worlds when it comes to job-hunting, new research has revealed. A survey of 7,000 Australians found male jobseekers look for money and career progression, while women look for a strong workplace culture, flexibility, convenience and development opportunities.
Disaster-affected businesses to get $3.3 million
The Federal Government has announced $3.3 million to help small business support groups assist disaster-affected small businesses get back on their feet.
Cloud computing saves flooded business
Thinking of reasons to switch to the cloud? I bet risk of flood wasn’t top of your list. Brisbane’s Gilkatho Coffee used cloud computing to keep operating when their business was 2.6m underwater.
Read up on Paid Parental Leave before 1 July
As of 1 July, it’s up to you, the employer, to provide payments to eligible employees. This quick Q&A tells you what you need to know.
Most Aussies would move abroad for the right job
Three-quarters of Australians are willing to uproot and move across the world for the right job, the Kelly Global Workforce Index survey has found.