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Social Media platforms such as LinkedIn threaten the future of the 200-plus industry associations in Australia predicts online marketer Toby Marshall, CEO of Lead Creation.

Interest rates were held at 4.75 percent by the Reserve Bank of Australia on the back of rising concerns about the European sovereign debt crisis despite wage pressures from the shortage of skilled labour on the back of a 33.2 percent increase in job ads over the last year.

You go away with your senior management team, spend two days with an external facilitator and come back with what you think is a great strategy.

I advocate the umbrella concept of business protection. An umbrella can’t stop the rain from falling, but it will protect you in a storm.

Harvey Norman plans to launch a China-based retail website to circumvent the Government’s GST legislation have been called a hoax, after Harvey Norman chairman Gerry Harvey announced the plan yesterday.

Job ads rose for the seventh consecutive month in November and are now 33.2 percent higher than the same time last year, with competition for skilled labour now becoming a serious issue for Australian businesses.

Paypal scam emails are doing the rounds of Australian small businesses with scammers seeking to gain your PayPal login details to take money from the PayPal account you use for business.

The end-of-year office drinks is a festive tradition in Australia, but the annual work Christmas party could cost companies in unexpected fringe benefits tax, according to Nexia Court & Co.

Telstra’s Ultimate USB modem is promoted to small business customers as the absolute fastest mobile internet speeds available in Australia, we secured one from Telstra and ran it through its paces as a small business mobile internet workhorse.

Gift and Homewares Australia have sold out all possible floorspace for exhibitors for Sydney’s biggest Home and Giving Fair, taking place at Sydney Showground on 19-22 February 2011.

Kogan CEO Ruslan Kogan unveiled LivePrice, an innovative pricing model that offers customers savings if they buy their product earlier in the production process, helping Kogan’s cash flow, and saving customers money if they can pre-order early in the production cycle.

The Australian Government’s Small Business Support Line has added an online ‘live chat’ service for small businesses so that business owners can reach the service in whichever way best suits their needs.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has launched an online education module that explains the new consumer guarantees to business owners, managers and sales staff.

Mobil petrol stations in Australia are in the process of being rebranded into 7-Eleven stores after the sale of more than 250 Mobil service stations to 7-Eleven’s Australian owners was approved by the ACCC eight weeks ago.

Based on the results from the latest MYOB Business Monitor, things aren’t too rosy for many Aussie businesses.

70% of employees are operating on auto-pilot and should be exposed to regular ‘positive’ stress at work, claims workplace management expert Tony Wilson.

National Australia Bank’s payment problems over the last week have Australian retailers proposing legal action against in the form of a national class action to recover the loses incurred due to the bank’s failures over the last week, such legal action is unlikely to be successful however.

National Australia Bank’s payment problems over the last week have Australian retailers up in arms proposing legal action against NAB in the form of a national class action to recover the loses incurred due to the bank’s failures over the last week.

As an accountant and a virtual CFO, I work with a lot of small business owners and one of the most common mistakes they are often guilty of is micromanaging their team and working ‘in’ the business rather than ‘on’ the business.

Google has launched Google Engage, a new training and incentives program to support Australian digital freelancers and agencies that offer web services to small and medium-sized businesses.