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SMBs have just a couple of weeks left to ensure they’re prepared for changes to rules regarding paid parental leave and sex discrimination, according to Truman Hoyle partner and employment law expert Fiona Inverarity.

Over the past few years the biggest hurdles I can see for any business to succeed online is their ability to be able to measure the traffic to their website. It seems alien to me that a company would spend hundreds, thousands if not more on building a website but fail to add the basic features of a web analytics like Google Analytics to track the ROI of their website.

Rural and regional SMBs are gearing up for the arrival of an educational road show designed to give them the tools and knowledge to achieve success online.

Optus has launched a range of cloud services, designed to assist small and medium businesses in managing their communications, collaboration and marketing.

When you consider the percentages of the 3E Model—education (10%), experience (70%) and exposure (20%)—organisations should be viewing informal learning as important.

Part of the study of using LinkedIn (LinkedInology) is being a responsible user. Being such, I feel compelled to clear up some misinformation on the proper usage of LinkedIn.

Telstra Business Awards finalists for the Australian Capital Territory, Tasmania and Victoria have been named.

Women taking a career break need to contribute $70 a week to superannuation to have enough, according to Lynette Argent, CEO of Million Dollar Woman.

While many would consider the art of planking as a bit of harmless fun, its competitive nature means the more daring the location, the better. It’s the daring side of it that has the potential to create big health and safety issues at work.

I’ve been rereading Seth Godin’s The Dip, which if you haven’t read it is about when you should quit—and quit fast.

Poor customer service is losing Australian businesses customers, particularly to the online space, according to Timothy Millett, director of training and development for i perform.

When we talk about ‘leadership’ we often confine our thinking to the workplace, or philanthropic boards, or structured team-based activities like clubs, sport, or community groups.

The NAB National Small Business Summit 2011 will see the launch of a new segment, The FIX IT Forum, where small businesses can highlight issues most important to them.

ON THE COVER: Graphic designer Yiying Lu of Walls360 on her infamous Twitter ‘fail whale’ and how it led to success.

I am often asked to put together events for clients, and despite all my best efforts to suggest alternate activities, they insist I go ahead. When my concerns come to the fore, they then say “the ROI on that wasn’t great”, or my favourite, “we didn’t get many people, what went wrong?

While the end of the financial year can sometimes be a rushed haze of numbers, money, stock and papers, I think it’s important to take some time to reflect on the year that has just passed.

Freelancer.com has launched the world’s largest crowdsourcing site for logo designers. More than 600,000 designers have signed up to the outsourcing website, making it the highest concentration of designers online.

It’s common knowledge that the dual economy developing within pockets of the Australian employment sector is putting additional pressure on SMEs to compete for staff.

The Reserve Bank has decided to leave the cash rate at 4.75%, announced RBA governor Glenn Stevens.

Many managers find themselves under enormous time pressure. Why? Too often it’s because they’re doing their job… and that of many others!