Managing

People are working harder and longer than ever. Those who are able to make good decisions quickly, and implement them, are able to cut through clutter and get things done.

It probably seems a simple and, frankly, dull task. But if you think about how reliant your business is on printed documents and how lost you’d be without a printer, it’s a different story….

When you’re at a footy match and someone kicks a goal, you scream and yell. Would you ever think of sitting back and saying “That’s what you’re paid for”?

No matter the size of your company, if you are a director, you have a number of duties and responsibilities to both the company and the public.

For the eleventh year in a row, the valuable contribution of the small business sector of NSW is the focus of Small Business September 2010.

Directors of struggling companies need to keep a tight rein on payments to the Australian Tax Office because of personal liability for the debt if the company does not pay or becomes insolvent.

With the Federal election only weeks away, here are 14 election policy initiatives that business owners across Australia demand action on.

Inception is full of intense action scenes, new age special effects and intriguing concepts. Yet, all the Hollywood-hype set aside, the movie portrays many facts, fictions and biases about family businesses.

Every business wants to grow, but expanding a business too soon, or blindly, can have dire consequences. So before taking the leap, ask yourself how well do you know your existing business?

A great place to start developing a scoreboard and KPIs for your business is to go back the very basics. Start with working out if you actually have a sustainable business model that will bring you the type of prosperity and lifestyle you dreamed of when you started.

We asked our expert blogger Adrian Raftery (aka Mr Taxman) for his top tips on strategies to implement to reduce your tax. Whether you’re a business owner or an employee, there’s something for everyone.

Less than 15 years ago it was rare to find a business using the Internet or a mobile device in the workplace.

Auditors have reported a 40 percent increase in suspected breaches of the Corporations Act to the Australian Securities & Investments Commission in the last financial year.

Trends begun in the mid-to-late nineties really became the dominant voice in their respective markets as more households went online.

Will smartphones push the netbook to extinction or is there still a place for it in the business owner’s growing armoury of gadgets?

They intimidate, manipulate, degrade and humiliate. They cost the country billions of dollars in lost productivity and cause stress, anxiety and depression in their victims.

Consumer law nationally has been radically changed with the passing of new laws that prohibit standard form consumer contracts which contain unfair terms. These changes are likely to have a significant impact on SMEs and how they interact with their customers.

Windowlogic through the launch of CRM4Legal and Logic4Outlook is allowing Australian law firms to access key business system information from a single interface.

Even though it’s important to pursue new customers and new markets, it’s absolutely crucial not to neglect the customers that have supported and given you the success you enjoy today.

Australian retailers are being warned that they will lose both sales and customers if they do not engage with their customers consistently across multiple channels.