Tag: Online

Dinosaur Designs’ Louise Olsen and Stephen Ormandy are both business owners and husband and wife but perhaps more importantly they’re artists.

Social media users are a diversity asset to businesses, according to Nareen Young, CEO of Diversity Council Australia (DCA). She said that while there were risks in allowing social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter in the workplace, with sensible risk management policies this connectivity could be beneficial.

Research jointly conducted by Google, Salmat and the Australian Centre for Retail Studies (ACRS) shows that online retailing will explode with growth this year as consumers demand multichannel sales points. Online and mobile-accessible sales channels will be the growth areas for businesses.

More than two-thirds of online retailers expressed optimism about the business outlook for the next 12 months, according to an annual survey conducted by eBay.com.au.

Google and MYOB’s joint project ‘Getting Aussie Businesses Online’ has seen more than 4,000 businesses take up the offer of a free website, an average of eight Australian business owners per hour since its launch on March 2, 2011.

Stevan Premutico has big plans to change the way Australians book restaurant tables. He spoke to Dynamic Business as Dimmi celebrates a successful first year in business.

In Melbourne’s South Yarra, a small business called Thinktank Media is helping other small businesses get social. They’re proving a couple of important things. One is that social media really does make good business sense, and the other is that employing an agency to ‘do’ your social media for you is within the reach of SMEs.

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.

So you have a great new website and you’re using analytics but what are you doing with the information you collate and is it helping you tailor your online marketing?

You may have heard terms like cloud computing, cloud services and software as a service. In plain language, they mean accessing technology products via the internet and paying a predictable recurring fee, rather than paying for expensive hardware and software.