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Rick Mapperson blogs about how our natural reaction to sales pitches may mean we’re missing valuable business opportunities.

“Sometimes a bad sales pitch is in front of a very good business.”

A 1000 percent rise in Google searches of tax-related keywords since April has led MYOB to urge tax and accounting consultants to build an online presence now, or risk losing their business to competitors who are online.

Australia’s first training and mentoring school for entrepreneurs, CEOs and high-end executives has opened its doors in Sydney.

With cyclones, floods and earthquakes affecting large parts of Australia and New Zealand over the past 18 months, Acronis suggests SMBs look to imaging, virtualisation and Cloud services to maintain continuity and customer service in the wake of a natural disaster.

BikeExchange.com.au took out the AMP Innovation Award at the Victorian Telstra Business Awards on the weekend, thanks to its demonstration of genuine innovation leadership since it opened for business in 2007.

Retail turnover fell a seasonally adjusted 0.6 percent in May, following a rise of 1.2 percent the month prior.

Brett Morris blogs about how managers can create a business that’s able to function and prosper in their absence.

“Central to making this work, practically and effectively, is ensuring that when employees are faced with a problem, we don’t allow them to simply ‘handball’ their problems up to us.”

You know you deserve a raise, but aren’t sure how best to broach what can be a touchy and somewhat uncomfortable subject with your boss.

The first national study into the impacts of local government regulation on business by the Productivity Commission has been given the green-light, a move backed by the Federal Government.

With online retail up 15 percent and $143 billion worth of orders received by Australian businesses in 2009/10, opportunities, insights and learning will be on the agenda at the 2011 Online Retailer Conference and Expo.

For most people, blogs are a small creative window read by family and friends. Dynamic Business profiles five women whose home hobby became big business. Up first: Polka Dot Bride

Danielle MacInnis offers some practical marketing ideas that any small business can implement today.

“It seems to me common sense but unless you live and breathe marketing all day, everyday, maybe some basic marketing tools just aren’t on your radar.”

Unsuspecting small businesses are often in the sights of scammers around the end of the financial year, with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) suggesting SMBs remain vigilant at this time of year.

If most small businesses spent even half as much time, effort and resource into retaining their existing customers as they do to win over potential customers, their business would see a great difference in sales.

Borders, Angus and Robertson, Williams and now the 23 year old, Colorado chain all closing their doors – what is happening to retail in Australia? To survive today’s challenging economic conditions and successfully fight the onslaught of online shopping – bricks and mortar retailers need to re-invent the way they do business.

In the first of the Driving Business Online case study series, Ballina-based online hardware store Hardware2U reveals how an excess of stock at Christmas led to it becoming an online business.

Franchisor performance is now measurable globally, enabling Australian franchisors to compare their model across a range of key performance indicators (KPIs) against other franchises.

Admit it, it’s a big grey box, you don’t particularly care much for it. Churning out proposals after presentations, the office printer is one of the most productive, yet unloved, members of your team.

As an increasing number business and government activities occur online, the Federal Government has introduced new legislation to boost online identity and data security.

Australians are some of the most optimistic people in the world when it comes to finding a new job, with only Chinese and Indian workers registering higher confidence.