#Forums
Why should you get involved with forums?
The question should be, why aren’t you involved with forums already? Forums are a highly valuable business tool for communicating with target markets and driving people to a website.
Your IP and the Internet
Alicia Beachley gets serious about protecting your Intellectual Property online. “Your work and therefore your IP is something that should be very valuable to you, both commercially and intellectually.”
Beware the Ides of March! Loyalty and leadership
How important is loyalty and leadership when getting a business up and running? In this blog post Michael Derin explores some lessons from history.
Billionaires giving their fortunes away
If you were worth $50 billion dollars would you keep it all for yourself? Of the three richest men in the world, two of them are now competing, not for the top spot, but, to give sizable chucks of their fortunes away, in their lifetimes.
Facebook: small business website alternative
If you don’t have a website for your small business then perhaps Facebook is a good alternative. Here’s are some tips for business owners, including a step by step, top-level look at how to create a page for your business.
Apple’s iPad2 is here
Just bought yourself and iPad? Too slow. There’s a newer version. The new device has more memory, is faster and features front and back cameras, but that’s not all.
The coming age of mobile payments: introducing the players
Do your customers want to buy stuff while they are on the move? Blogger David Boyd explains some of the different types of mobile payment systems you could use.
Illegal tobacco sales and cheap cigarettes hurting small business
Small businesses are hurting as tobacco laws unintentionally push smokers to large grocery outlets and illegal tobacco traders. The Australian Association of Convenience Stores (AACS) says regulations must change.
Free websites for 50,000 Australian small businesses
Haven’t got a website made yet? You’re not alone. Between 50 and 60 percent of Australian businesses do not yet have an online presence, but no more excuses: from today, the first 50,000 businesses to sign up get a free website from MYOB and Google. No strings attached.
Gmail accounts wiped: here’s how to back up your gmail account
Google lost messages and contacts for hundreds of thousands of people at the weekend as a result of a gmail glitch. To help prevent a tragic data loss, here’s how you can back up your business and personal gmail accounts.
Matters of life and death: tips for small business owners
Not something we want to think about too often, but still a part of the “admin” of our lives: planning for our demise is especially important for business owners, though it may be last on the list of things to do. Blogger Rick Mapperson offers some advice for small businesses.
Interest rate rise delayed by floods
A rate rise may be on the way for Australians but not yet. A number of factors are helping to keep inflation down, including the recent spate of natural disasters, though the possibility of a rate rise has not been entirely ruled out.