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Australians may be addicted to a bargain and flocking to the numerous collective buying websites in droves but are some better than others, and is the customer base large enough to go round? If the answers is “yes”, and “no”, that may explain why the various daily deal sites are tripping over each other to proclaim themselves leader of the pack.
Australia’s biggest steel maker, BlueScope Steel, said higher raw material costs, the strong Aussie dollar and reduced local demand resulted in a loss of $55 million for the first half of the 2011 financial year. This compares with a loss of $28 million for the same time in the previous year. Speaking at the half-year results briefing in Sydney, BlueScope Steel’s Managing Director and CEO, Mr Paul O’Malley, said “the result is ‘in line’ with the Company’s guidance at the Annual General Meeting and reflective of the developed world steel industry performing near the bottom of its cycle.
Australians are increasingly comfortable buying goods online but small businesses are lagging behind the trend, and missing opportunities, with new research revealing that only one in three businesses have a website.
Easy to use and inexpensive to get started, the popularity of Facebook as a marketing channel for small businesses overseas continues to rise.
Small businesses are often burned by bad debtors because they haven’t put in place solid workable credit practices to evaluate those they do business with. We asked Veda Advantage to provide ten top tips to help small businesses adopt and implement best practice credit practices.
Looking for the latest endpoint security products for your Smartphone, Mac or Linux? Kaspersky Lab have launched their 2011 business security product range.
Gen X and Y are increasingly taking their work mobile, with 25 percent using their mobile phone to access work emails on the go, according to a new survey.
To help you improve your workplace nutrition, Fruit at Work’s resident nutritionist, Stephanie Stephenson has provided her top 10 tips to help you reign in your workplace diet.
Pretzel World is on a path to franchise world domination (in Australia) with the company looking to expand its footprint across the country following a rise in enquires and a tripling in sales in some stores.
The market is changing and we’re seeing a major shift in buyer behavior – from in-store tyre kicking to savvy online bargain hunters. It’s no longer effective to run an advert in the local paper and hope the phone will ring.
Telstra will launch the HTC Desire S smartphone exclusively on its Next G network in Australia, making the announcement after HTC unveiled the Google Android powered Desire S overnight at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
I was doing some research recently and came across some Australian software developers working hard at being big, by helping small businesses.
Did you know, that by switching from Arial font to Century Gothic, you require around 30% less printer toner?
Online ‘presale’ shopping is expected to double in 2011, with presale shopping portal Lasoo.com.au recording a record 5.6 million product interactions in December last year, with the exponential growth of online pre-shopping expected to continue in 2011.
Telstra will bring the Sony Ericsson Xperia neo Android powered mobile phone to its NextG network in Australia before the end of June this year.
Telstra will launch a 4G mobile broadband network that in testing has achieved 100Mpbs download speeds later this year, upgrading it’s existing NextG mobile network to support ‘Long Term Evolution’ (LTE) technology in all Australian CBD’s and selected regional centres by the end of 2011.
I once heard a store about a bookstore owner who had the misfortune of being located between two giant bookselling competitors.
As a small business owner I struggle like most people to get everything done. And one of the many things on my to do list is backing-up my computer files. Fortunately, having an Apple Mac I get reminders from the Time Machine application when I haven’t backed up my computer for 10 days, which prompts me to do it.
The NSW Government has hosted a business pitching event to help build consortiums to take advantage of a new $6 million NSW digital economy program, with the event going off like a frog in a sock.
Veda Advantage’s Business Credit Demand Index, released today, shows demand for business credit among small business is down 7.3 percent in the December quarter over 2009.
