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It might not be a horror film, but zombies are everywhere, just not in the way they’re portrayed in the movies or on television.

While the $5.5 billion package has been well received, the questions facing Australia’s two million-plus small business owners are two-fold: what does it mean for me and what to do with the incentive?

Each provider may vary in quality and infrastructure, so it important to take the time to do your research before handing over your precious cash.

Prone to losses from shoplifting, burglary and internal theft, keeping your stock and staff safe within your business should be top priority.

it is important to know and understand your typical customer’s buying strategy so that you can sell to them effectively and efficiently, by matching your marketing and sales methods to their buying strategy.

With the amount of time and investment that goes into finding a good hire, employers may want to keep talent getting propositioned with new opportunities.

How is your site living up to the latest? Here’s 4 onsite tactics you may not have considered in the past, but should definitely be implementing today.

Everyone knows about the difficulties and the risk of failure, but you have decided to take the plunge anyway. Great, but here are five things that are essential to your ability to succeed.

The time it took you to read this sentence is roughly the length of the average consumer attention span. That’s right, the average human attention span has been clocked at eight seconds.

For most business owners, spending money on advertising seems as risky as gambling, like money put into a slot machine with nothing positive to show for it.

It’s crucial small business owners use this time to take stock and analyse the business to try and find small opportunities or improvements that could be made, and make a strong plan for the year ahead.

85 per cent of Australians worry about making mistakes at work, according to a survey of business workers across Australia conducted by Pilot Pen Australia.

If you are a contractor or tradesperson, you’ll know that your insurance needs are a little different to those of standard white collar workers.

Deciding whether you are an entrepreneur or a business owner is the most critical decision you will ever make for your future and the future of your business.

When it comes to operational success, it’s important to keep in mind that your entire workforce is only as strong as your weakest link.

Being able to deliver the best cloud service, at the lowest cost with high reliability and guaranteed security is not as simple as packing up your servers and shifting them to a data centre.

Nothing new about the ‘doing more with less’ strategy, but what happens when a business operator ‘doing more with less’ decides to ‘do even more with even less?’

There are some possible issues that could potentially make all those awards a double-edged sword.

It is important that the senior employees have a thorough framework to mentor the juniors and newbies, who need to know firsthand the values of the organization that they have joined.

When it comes to overcoming obstacles to your business success, attitude has a lot to do with it. Here are a few strategies that I have found useful over the last few years…