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LinkedIn has found significant differences between men and women when it comes to online professional networking, with data showing that both globally and locally, men tend to be savvier online networkers than their female counterparts.
Lady Danielle Di-Masi blogs about the importance of ensuring your behaviour is flexible enough to fit the client.
“Referrals are a huge part of being successful in business but does it happen just because you give a good service?”
Vizualise has expanded its business to Melbourne to better meet increasing demand for its digital marketing and IT strategies, which Founder Rupert Dean attributes largely to its use of Cloud Computing.
Is it possible to model the success of one of the greatest entrepreneurs of our time? How is it that one man can succeed with 300 companies while most fail to do so with one?
Data breaches are becoming a major concern for businesses, with a recent survey by Check Point Technologies and Ponemon Institute finding 77 percent of organisations have experienced data loss in the last 12 months.
Over 145,000 businesses experienced a risk downgrade in the March quarter, according to Dun & Bradstreet, as rising payment terms and bleak expectations for sales and profits put pressure on cash flow.
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has expanded its entrepreneur program and introduced better technology solutions to help small and medium businesses grow, improve employee productivity and protect assets.
Median superannuation fund growth retreated 0.2 percent due to faltering share markets in May this year, but the news isn’t all bad with the return to date for the financial year reaching 10 percent.
Business owners will face an added end of financial year compliance burden when the Federal Flood Levy is installed on 1 July, according to leading accounting software provider MYOB.
Nokia and Dynamic Business have 30 double passes to give away to an exclusive small business and entrepreneur networking event in Sydney next week, for the launch of Nokia’s new online book ‘In Hindsight’, and the E6 and E7 smartphones.
Servcorp is offering a 50 percent discount on its Virtual Office package to travellers affected by the disruption of flights in and out of various Australian cities, caused by the volcanic ash cloud.
One under-performing member can spoil the work of a whole team, according to a study by UNSW researcher Benjamin Walker, in which he tested the conscientiousness of team members, and proved ‘one bad apple’ at work can indeed ‘spoil the barrel’.
Analysis of the 14 leading Western Australian businesses named as finalists in the 2011 Telstra Business Awards shows high customer service levels sit at the core of their business success.
MYOB’s Julian Smith blogs about the importance of giving yourself a pat on the back this EOFY.
“For some of you self-recognition is rare, you’re so busy doing the day to day work that it’s easy to miss. I encourage you to recognise the hard work and determination that you have put in to your business, what you have achieved and the contribution you make to your local business community.”
As an ash cloud from a Chilean volcano once again forces the cancellation of flights in, out of and around Australia, many small businesses will need to re-assess their business contingency plans.
According to a new survey, technology has contributed significantly to Australian office workers becoming more productive – largely at the expense of their personal time, however.
Small businesses look set to face an ongoing struggle to contain wages in 2011, according to the 2011 Australian Institute of Management (AIM) National Salary Survey.
Servcorp has just launched ‘My Biggest Challenge’; a social media campaign designed to celebrate entrepreneurialism in Australia by publicly recognising the challenges that small business owners face.
Telstra has announced the finalists in the 2011 Telstra Northern Territory Business Awards, finding that customer service is at the forefront of business success in the state.
The Geelong Investment and Innovation Fund will create some 37 new jobs in the Geelong region, thanks to a partnership between the Federal and Victorian governments and Ford Australia.
