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SMEs continue to see insolvency as their biggest concern, with experts calling on the Government to implement tax breaks for small businesses at today’s Tax Forum.

With Mental Health Week (9-15 October) approaching fast, it’s important businesses implement strategies to manage stress and anxiety in the workplace for employees, managers and owners alike. With this in mind, here’s some tips for managing mental health in the workplace.

Finding the right talent when you need it is one of the biggest headaches for any manager. There are countless recruiters ready to help out but this takes time and money and unless you strike the right agency the result can be a frustrating collection of vaguely qualified CVs taken from the agency database. Fortunately, these days there are other options.

The current economic situation isn’t slowing down DesignCrowd.com, which is enjoying record sales thanks to staggering growth of 336 percent in the last 12 months.

Anytime Fitness Australia franchisee Steve Rollings has helped the company reach a milestone, by opening its 100th club in Thornton, NSW on 1 October.

In order to justify expenditure, it is essential for a business to measure its social media ROI. As with everything else in a business that costs money, changing to a new computer system or hiring another staff member, businesses rightly expect a return on the investment.

In a guest post for Dynamic Business, TrueLocal’s Simon Carson looks at using cost-effective forms of marketing, such as social media, to survive the coming downturn.

Lady Danielle Di-Masi blogs about shaking off nerves before public speaking.

“If you are running a meeting, a training session, being interviewed or speaking at an event then shake off those nerves and feel confident that everyone that will be seeing you wants you to do well; for their sake as well as yours.”

The rise of cloud computing, social networking and mobile applications in the past couple of years has turned doing business on its head. Ordering software on CD and installing it on employee machines is a thing of the past. But for many business owners the sheer saturation of products available makes choosing the right technologies hard.

Pulling off a business turnaround takes an intimate understanding of a business, including its customers, products, sales process, and employees. This process should be completed in a short time period as stalling or extending it can lead to even more losses.

Your Friday Entrepreneur Fix this week features Ruslan Kogan, the young entrepreneur shaking up the consumer electronics industry.

The Federal Court has reached a verdict in the case of ALDI versus EFTPOS Payments Australia Limited (ePAL),ruling in favour of full and fair disclosure of EFTPOS fees in Australia.

Success demands an agile and responsive workforce, regardless of where they are and how they are connected. Enabling mobility is a key factor in this equation, but it is only part of a journey that is really about rallying people, knowledge and resources to improve the organisation’s outcomes.

Appliances Online was awarded the honours of Best Customer Experience and Best Site Optimisation and Design at the Online Retail Industry Awards (OIRA’s) on Tuesday night, and CEO John Winning has told Dynamic Business his company’s success is due to its focus on customer service.

Facebook unveiled a raft of changes at this year’s f8 Developer Conference, many of which have left security experts concerned about a rise in Twitter-style spambots as well as targeted cybercrime attacks on users.

mCommerce is moving towards maturity in Australia, according to PayPal figures released this week which show over 1,000 transactions are now being processed from mobile phones every hour.

Cold Rock Ice Creamery is expanding its already booming franchise business of 100 stores, by looking to add 10 more in regional Victoria.

Catriona Pollard blogs about how CEO’s and high-profile business people should be utilising social media.

“Social media should be seen as an opportunity, not a risk, and can be used to boost both the profile of the company and an individual.”

A clever way to potentially cash in on the cloud trend would be to jump right into the movement and become a cloud provider.

It’s crucial local employers maintain perspective about the employment market, due to a continued decline in hiring intentions.