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Amanda Foy, the winner from our Google AdWords webinar last month, has had her two-hour, one-on-one online marketing session with a member of the Google team.

Local businesses are missing a trick if they neglect to stake out an online presence, according to Australian review website TrueLocal.com.au.

Federal Minister for Small Business Senator Nick Sherry has announced that he will not recontest the next election. Sherry’s resignation came ahead of Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s reshuffling of her cabinet.

Three in four Australians take work home with them and one in two put in nine hours in an average working day, according to a global study conducted by workplace solutions provider Regus.

Arndria Seymour takes stock of the lessons she learnt in 2011 and relays how you can apply them to your business in 2012.

“Can I suggest for 2012 that you merge your kitchens (the back office) and focus on the service in your many dining rooms (front of house) to reduce the internal competing priorities and focus on the real end game—customer satisfaction?”

Google has released its Australian 2011 Brand Zeitgeist list, which shows the most searched for brands and ads in the country. Commonwealth Bank topped the list as Australia’s most searched for brand.

Group buying website OfferMe and Online Media Group (OMG), which operates Business.com.au, have combined to help Australian retailers capitalise on a fast-growing online market.

Businesses developing a new product, process or service won’t have to repay Early Stage Commercialisation grants under new changes to the government-funded Commercialisation Australia program.

If you’re a small business intending to pass on the costs of the carbon tax to your customers and suppliers, you’d better be careful about it.

One of Australia’s leading online retailers has declared that bricks-and-mortar stores have lost the price war and should stop complaining and move on if they wish to keep their customer base.

Generation Y has excellent saving skills but more debt than ever before, according to new research by REST Industry Super.

Business owners can now find the government support and funding they need, following an update to the Federal Government’s online Grants and Assistance Finder tool.

Daily deal offers and group buying can be used successfully to promote the products and services of a business. Over the last year, many Australian businesses have started using these offers as a modern approach to advertising.

The Reserve Bank (RBA) has cut the national interest rate to 4.25 percent, the second consecutive cut it has made in its monthly meetings—the first back-to-back monthly cuts since April 2009.

Communication between small business stakeholders is critical to success, according to the outcome of a recent event hosted by NAB in Melbourne.

Three in four small businesses do not understand the threats posed by reliance on mobile phones and tablets, according to a report by security software developer AVG.

Dynamic Business spoke to Dean McEvoy, founder of group buying site Spreets, about how they make sure SMEs are well equipped for, and get the best out of, running a group buying deal.

Lady Danielle Di-Masi blogs about ensuring you’re appropriately dressed for business events and functions.

“If an event goes to the effort to state the attire then you should go to the effort to dress appropriately. They obviously have a standard that they would like to see for the function…”

Employers must be mindful of the dangers social media present to their business brand over the Christmas period said law firm People and Culture Strategies.

Australian small business owners are the least likely to expect business growth in the next 12 months with only 57 percent indicating a positive outlook, a CPA Australia survey showed.