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With an eye on their pockets, over 50 percent of local consumers will skip the traditional summer holiday this year and stay at home, while who do travel will cut down on their spend while on holiday.
Community-led search website Yelp has announced the launch of Yelp Australia, which will allow users to create accounts through which they can swap opinions of and experiences with local businesses.
Internet provider iiNet has announced its latest product, Business Cloud, which will allow small businesses to build privately hosted infrastructure.
Sid Edwards blogs about using the Christmas season as a time to plan for your business’ future.
“The Christmas break is a time for family and to recharge, however it is also a time when business owners can reflect on the past year and review their decisions over that year to evaluate what has worked and what hasn’t worked so well.”
As the nation gets hooked on the new series Celebrity Apprentice, Mark Bouris took time out from filming to speak to Jen Bishop about the show and small business in Australia.
More than half of holidaying Australians check their emails while on their break, and almost 40 percent of people do work other than emailing while on holiday, according to the Holiday Habits Report, conducted by Nielsen for accommodation specialists Stayz.
Small businesses are switching the video conferencing over business travel to enhance productivity, according to a survey conducted by StollzNow Research for Telstra Business.
Small business sales were up in October, suggesting that consumer spending will creep back in the lead up to Christmas, according to the latest figures from ANZ.
Catriona Pollard blogs about the benefits of women’s networking groups.
“Business networking is the single most effective way to not only meet new contacts that share your vision and mission but it is also an excellent method for meeting people that can assist in new business development.”
The Federal Government has revealed a round of spending cuts to the tune of $6.8 billion over the next four years to help the nation’s balance sheet return to black.
A business travel expert details what’s new in Virgin Australia’s relaunched Velocity frequent flyer scheme.
Eva Maria blogs about creating a welcome page for your business’ Facebook page.
“Welcome pages, in essence, give you the opportunity to show a piece of your work, or exist as part of your website to drive people to become more interested in what you have to offer.”
Inspired by an interview with 99designs’ founder Mark Harbottle last month, Dynamic Business decided to put crowdsourcing into a real life scenario by using the site to source this month’s cover design. Here’s how editor Jen Bishop found the experience.
Behind the spandex and the melodrama of those WWE matches, there’s solid business advice. Seriously.
Here’s why scaling your company with fewer clients may just contribute to your company’s long-term health.
There are lots of ways to ruin your company blog, but these six are among the most egregious.
In a landscape dominated by ineffective Twitter and Facebook pages, a new and very interactive initiative is helping businesses achieve a competitive edge using social media tools.
iiNet has introduced its team of broadband internet experts, BoBsquad, to consumer and business customers in Sydney and Melbourne.
Productivity and efficiency reasons, not environmental concerns, are the main impetus behind SMBs upgrading to video conferencing for meetings, Telstra Business research has found.
Telstra Bigpond, iiNet, Optus, iPrimus and Internode have banded together in support of scheme designed to combat the growing problem of online copyright infringement by local internet users – both business and consumer.
