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The Australian Taxation Office has more government funding than ever before, intended to help it ensure all taxpayers pay what they’re obliged to. To avoid unwanted attention, an expert is urging all businesses to check the ATO’s benchmarking records, to ensure their percentages are in the acceptable range for their industry.
Planning and executing an effective online marketing strategy can be a big challenge for small businesses, but a little bit of expert advice can go a long way to getting you on the right track.
There’s plenty of money out there for great ideas. How to tell if you’ve got one.
Even small companies may suffer from inefficient processes and counter-productive operations. Assemble a team to turn things around.
How do you make a billion dollars in two years? Here’s a narrative look through the brief, hectic, (and lucky), 14 months of Kevin Systrom’s life growing Instagram.
Homemade is becoming a worldwide name on Etsy, the online marketplace for handmade and vintage wares for one man and woman businesses. Here’s a look at why Etsy is proving popular with customers and what business lessons can be learnt from this.
Sleep deprivation is costing the Australian economy billions every year in lost productivity, according to a new sleep study.
While many businesses are shifting focus away from traditional retail and onto the online marketplace, Brisbane-based gift and homewares store Dandelyon is doing the opposite.
Content marketing is the creation and publication of original content, and it’s been around for years. So why is it becoming such a big deal for marketers now?
So you’ve set up a business Twitter, Facebook or Google+ account, ready and raring to dive into the world of social media. But doubt begins clouding the optimism and you wonder how you’re supposed to know whether you’re doing it right? Follow these golden rules to get your social media use off to the right start.
The new Optus OfficeApps Backup Suite is improving small business owners peace of mind about after hours data protection, after a recent survey revealed one fifth of companies aren’t regularly backing up critical company data.
While social media is often in the limelight, email continues to be the lead workhorse for many businesses. This means that as customer sophistication evolves, so too should your email strategy.
For many new businesses, finding the right advisor can make all the difference. Here are five qualities to seek in an ideal mentor.
Hiring an outside consultant may seem like a good idea, but keeping the task in-house makes better business sense. Here are a few reasons why.
An informal survey released this week suggests that women entrepreneurs are more confident about their business’s success than their male counterparts and offers some clues as to why.
When a niche nappy business from Newcastle took out one of export’s best-regarded awards, little did we know that the toilet habits of tots worldwide was such big business.
Facebook has signed a deal to acquire its biggest potential competitor in free online photo sharing, Instagram, for approximately a billion dollars.
Avid global trotter turned online entrepreneur Jia En Teo channelled her frustrations with the online short-term holiday rental sector into creating Roomorama, a very profitable business that’s leading the property rental marketplace after merging with Fabrice Grindaalso of Lofty.com and securing $2.1 million in seed funding.
In a five-part article series, we look at the 10 most common ways small business owners waste valuable time and offer some solutions for combating this damaging behaviour. Part one looks at tackling shifting priorities and interruptions.
Small businesses are becoming increasingly reliant on quick-thinking ‘maverick’ staff members, and a new study has identified how employers can channel the talents of these independent thinkers.
