News
If you’re thinking about a new franchise opportunity in 2011, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission suggests prospective franchisees make the most of opportunities to learn about the business model.
Primus Telecom today implemented a dedicated hotline to help customers affected by the ongoing floods in Queensland, providing a single point of contact where people can divert phone lines to an alternative number, receive speedy restoration of phone and internet services and apply to have their bills waived for the flood affected times.
Spend a lot of time working on your own and you can start to feel cut off from the rest of the world and alone. It’s no secret that the quiet can get to you.
For this reason, the risk of isolation for small business owners is very real.
MyCareer has launched a LinedIn app that allows MyCareer users to scrape their existing LinkedIn profile data and match it to potential job opportunities on MyCareer.
Australian small businesses are being blindsided by important changes to workplaces laws that took effect on January 1, according to an industry expert.
University graduates are lying on their resumes when applying for graduate jobs, with a survey of 2,500 Australian university graduates showing that 38 percent openly admit to lying on their resumes.
Small retailers have joined Gerry Harvey’s call for a GST on online imports, with the National Retailers Association, which represents 3,700 businesses joining the Fair Imports Alliance according to The Age.
Power Balance wristbands and pendants have ‘no credible scientific basis’ and have been removed for sale by Power Balance Australia after Australian Competition and Consumer Commission intervention.
Brisbane based small business and digital agency Cru Digital is giving staff 10 hours a week ‘creative time’ to encourage creativity in the workplace.
With the end of the year approaching and many businesses finalising employee remuneration and bonus payouts, employers are urged to use this opportunity to update their employment contracts, particularly provisions applied to confidential information and restraints of trade, which may be either unsatisfactorily drafted, or out of date, according to Harmers Workplace Lawyers.
Australian-born Cafe2U, the world’s largest mobile coffee franchise, is preparing to expand its operations internationally in the US marketplace, after successfully launching the concept run in California’s San Diego region in June 2010.
Australia prides itself on being a ‘fast-follower’ in technology trends and Cloud Computing is no different. Here is a snapshot of what is happening in Australia for SMBs.
Employment figures are biting back in the lead up to the new year with employment rising to pre GFC levels, with part time employees set to save employers’ bacon in 2011.
Thirty-eight percent of employees have been less productive than normal in the lead-up to the Christmas break, 35% say they have been just as productive and 27% have been more productive, according to new research.
Freelancer.com, the Sydney based worldwide outsourcing marketplace connecting small business with freelancers has acquired LimeExchange.com, run by Lime Labs LLC for an undisclosed sum.
The tourism and retail sectors in NSW will be the first to benefit from a new $6 million initiative to develop Information Communication Technology initiatives, with a ‘mobile concierge’ service to be developed.
Three out of ten small business owners have not had any time off from their business this year with 64 percent having had only one week’s leave or less according to a survey of small business owners this month.
The Qantas A380 engine blast has been named the worst Australian PR disaster of 2010, in the annual PR Disasters Awards by PR watchdog and blogsite PRdisasters.com.
Being a small business owner is so glamorous and straightforward, right?
You can work whenever you want, determine your income and make your own rules. It’s the lifestyle that everyone wishes they had. Or is it?
The BlackBerry Bold 9780 is now available in Australia, with Vodafone and Optus, but not Telstra selling the mobile phone on plans starting at $59 per month.
