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How to deal with customers who drag their feet when it’s time to pay up.

Using an ‘IT Managed Service’ has traditionally been regarded as an option available to large organisations but technology is evolving and having a company to manage your IT needs is much more common place for businesses of all sizes.

Business coach Melanie Miller demonstrates that you can know everything there is about business, but you can still make mistakes.

Learn what it takes to build up your blog readership from a master blogger with over a million hits each month.

Have you ever been part way through a presentation and suddenly gone blank? You don’t remember where you were up to in your presentation and you look at your audience who in turn are watching your every move.

Recently, the Australian government acknowledged the importance of innovation by offering a new research and development tax incentive for innovative businesses, which allows business owners to claim up to 150% of their research and development expenses on their 2012 tax returns.

The Bring Your Own Device trend, where employees bring their own tablets or smartphones to connect to the business network, is here to stay. The reality of this is that the majority of employee-owned mobile devices also come with consumer applications already installed. As an SMB works with employees and embraces BYOD, they often unwittingly, end up embracing an avalanche of third party apps.

Five-time entrepreneur Frank Addante lists the digital gems that help him be organized and save time.

Strategy is a difficult thing for small business. We always believe that we have found the perfect niche in the market and that we will make the most of it. But sales don’t always come as quickly as you hope and you start to spread the service offering to get more customers through the door.

Getting your email opened is the first step but convincing people to click on your links is the end goal. Here are 5 practical tips to improve your email marketing.

The brains behind the globally successful Carman’s Fine Foods business has taken home the 2012 Telstra Business Woman of the Year Award.

At a recent branding symposium in New York City, execs at Google and top-advertising firms shared their tips for spurring creativity.

Consider these strategies if you aren’t converting website viewers into paying customers.

Protecting against fire should not end once a fire protection system is installed. It’s critical that anyone working within a facility knows how to respond to a fire emergency and knows how to use the fire equipment onsite.

These seven tips can help you differentiate your boomer and senior marketing message from all the other messages flooding the marketplace.

Organisations often use software that is completely inappropriate for the size of their organisation. Frequently there is a belief within organisations that they need one of the big players (SAP, Oracle, etc) to deliver their solution because “that’s what everyone else is doing”.

A shared passion for property prompted Mitch Fraser and John Allen to create Tomorrow Finance – a website that offers prospective home-buyers and investors a new way of getting the ideal loan without paying brokerage fees or suffering through endless meetings with bank managers.

The better informed you are about your target market, their demographics and requirements, the more specifically you will be able to tailor your strategy to meet their needs. Here are some key statistics from the latest census that every B2B business owner needs to know.

To ensure your Facebook posts reach the most people, timing is everything. Here are some tips for getting it right.

Can’t stop texting during meetings? These basic rules will help.