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Don’t rely on the excuse that you need to “wait for the economy to pick-up” before improving your business, check these five aspects off your 2012 bucket list now.

The Fair Work Ombudsman is asking franchises to take part in its National Franchise Program (NFP), designed to improve compliance with workplace laws across their network.

Customers aren’t just concerned about what they’re buying, they want to know what they’re buying in to. Follow these tips to become the face of your brand.

Will businesses that collect preference data start to impact who we become as individuals? Five years from now almost every single thing we are exposed to will be personalised. Is this good or bad? Will this begin to steer our preference as opposed to simply leveraging it?

Welcome to Friday! As always, we’ve wrapped up the week’s most important small business headlines for all you time-strapped SMB owners.

The best reason to buy tablets for your team? No more death by PowerPoint.

Spearheading a rapidly-growing business has its challenges but don’t resist the urge to evolve as the business grows.

Forget about raises and better benefits. Those are important – but this is what your staff really wants.

Westpac will cut around 400 jobs from its head office, technology and operations teams this year, to compensate for a slow down in loan growth.

Looking to change track for a year and devote more time to charitable undertakings? Apply for the Vodafone Foundation World of Difference program to win a full-time and fully paid charity position.

Attracting and retaining staff is vital to a business’ success and a comprehensive employee benefits program plays an important role in achieving this. But is it better to manage this in-house, or outsource it?

Lorna-Jane Clarkson, OzHarvest’s Ronni Kahn and T2 CEO Maryanne Shearer are amongst the five finalists named for the 2012 Veuve Clicquot Business Woman awards.

Jetts founder Brendon Levenson is the star of this week’s Friday Entrepreneur Fix. Read on to find out how he took on the giants of the fitness industry, and won.

The question should be, why aren’t you involved with forums already? Forums are a highly valuable business tool for communicating with target markets and driving people to a website.

Learning when to walk away from existing clients and say no to prospects is a skill, but get it right and your business will flourish and you’ll feel less burdened by your working life.

It’s critical to hone your “connector” skills — that is, your ability to make new friends and acquaintances. Here’s how.

If your business needs to be nimble, a rolling forecast is a better bet than an annual budget.

The social networking giant’s showing on the public market may land with a thud.

Metcash has reached an agreement with Ritchies for the sale of nine Franklins stores, which will be rebranded under the IGA banner.

Before you build business website, you need to think about the keywords your customers will type into Google to find you. Sound difficult? It doesn’t have to be.