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A new report has highlighted the growth in the Australian freelance market.

A new entrepreneur index has revealed confidence is high for start-ups, but 2016 is best time to launch a business.

A new initiative launched today by the Australian Retail Credit Association (ARCA) aims to demystify consumer credit history.

Right at the top of the New Year’s resolutions list for many SMEs was to get cash flow under control in 2014. Are you on track?

The combination of tight purse strings after the expense of Christmas and New Year festivities, and employees with post-holiday blues, can mean an all-round slump for business.

On the top of the New Year’s resolutions list for many is to rein in budgets, and finally get back into the black.

SMBs have been urged to keep cyber security at the top of the agenda in the new year as attacks on businesses are expected to increase.

During the Christmas period it can sometimes feel like everyone wants a ‘piece’ of you.

As online shopping keeps cutting away at the bricks and mortar pie, it’s become more important than ever for retailers to enhance the customer experience.

What do you do when you click onto a webpage or a blog post and are confronted with a great big slab of text? If you’re anything like the rest of us, you probably shut down the page and move on to something else.

You’ve got your business website up and running, it looks great – but still the phone isn’t ringing. It could be because your website is ‘invisible’.

Reach out to the people you already know, says Nick Bowditch, Facebook’s Head of SMB.

A record 1.8 million Australians will shop via a mobile device on Sunday 8 December, according to forecasting by eBay.

Don’t look now, but the ‘subscription economy’ is arriving at a business near you.

Call it laziness, call it a sheer shortage of time – or perhaps a combination of both – but many Australian business owners haven’t updated their business model since the GFC.

The silly season is already creeping up on us and 2014 is only a few short months away.

Every business owner with employees knows they need an employment contract for each employee. Many of the same business owners don’t, however, realise that they also need an employee handbook.

A ‘culture of blame’ permeates Australian organisations, and is quite distinct from other Western countries.

After 30 years in the industry, Australian marketing expert John Dwyer has seen businesses try everything.

Marketing evolves as tactics and technologies change and improve – technological advances can help you understand which actions generate the best returns on investment.