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Australian small and medium businesses are flying blind when it comes to advertising online, according to a survey of 1,800 Australian business owners.

Credit unions and building societies have welcomed the Federal Government’s banking reform package as “a good step towards more bank competition”.

iiNet today launched an online shopping cart, which allows small businesses to establish their own online sales presence in only a few minutes in conjunction with eCorner and their ePages platform.

Flight Centre is asking job seekers to submit LinkedIn, Blog and Twitter details – rather than traditional resumes/CVs when applying for jobs, despite a survey out today revealing 60 percent of job seekers don’t use social media to find employment.

Ten Australian-led startups are among the Guidewire Group’s 2010 Innovate!100 list released this week. The list is the result of a year-long Innovate! program of pitch slam and workshop events designed to identify and promote young companies and the entrepreneurs who drive them from idea to sustainability.

Aussies might be social media savvy in their personal lives, but 60 percent of professionals surveyed don’t use social media to find employment.

A rising tide of social media legal cases has provided guidance, but not certainty for both workers and employers, according to a legal expert.

If you’ve recently received your copy of the December/January issue of Dynamic Business magazine you’ll notice there’s a free DVD attached to the cover, Secrets of the Wealthy with Carly Crutchfield.

The Australian unemployment rate dropped to 5.2 percent in November falling 0.2 percentage points after moving 0.2 percentage points higher in October on the back of increased workforce participation, as announced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) today.

The ACCC continues to crack down on ‘illegal holiday surcharges’ on menus, with a cafe owner ordered to pay a penalty of $20,000 by the Federal Court for failing to provide ‘all inclusive pricing’ on their menus.

Google has unveiled the top small business search terms for 2010 alongside the release of Google’s Australian Brand Zeitgeist search data.

Google has declared 2010 as the year of the Aussie online shopper after announcing the first ever Australian Brand Zeitgeist, a look at the “hottest advertising campaigns and brand names in 2010” based on Google searches in Australia.

Christmas is a hectic time for small business owners – with scammers looking to take advantage of tired and stressed people during the festive season.

Following the announcement of the appointment of an administrator, a contract of sale has now been entered into for the purchase of the business of the franchisor of the Souvlakihut network.

Cold Rock Gungahlin has smashed records for the most successful opening week of any store within the franchise group’s history.

Cafe2U, the Australian mobile coffee franchise has been awarded a bronze medal at the 2010 CSR Golden Bean Roasting Competition in the coffee chain category, the first mobile coffee chain to win the accolade.

Yellow Pages ads were once the mainstay of advertising for local tradesmen, however tradesmen are moving their advertising spend online, with new research showing consumers increasingly switching to the internet to locate local tradesmen, rather than the Yellow Pages.

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.

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