Tag: Research

Generation Y has excellent saving skills but more debt than ever before, according to new research by REST Industry Super.

Did you break your 2011 New Year’s resolution to develop a business plan? Business solutions director Andrew Graham says ditch the standard business plan in 2012 and embrace a more agile approach to business development.

Manufacturing, Professional Services, the Digital Economy, International Education as well as Research, Tourism and Events are the first five sectors to be targeted by the NSW Government Industry Action Plans, designed to strengthen the state economy for the future.

Freelancer.com has expanded its crowdsourcing feature to accommodate all design categories, allowing small business owners access to a wide range of design needs including logos, smartphone app mockups, Photoshop editing and even personalised Twitter backgrounds.

Freelancer.com has dropped listing fees for projects posted by the end of August, with CEO Matt Barrie urging businesses make use of the special offer to get much-needed projects off the ground.

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.

Small and medium enterprises around Australia are able to learn about the latest business management practices at more than 70 seminars and workshops funded by the Australian Government.

So New Year hit and you set yourself some New Year’s resolutions. One being to ditch your day job and chase the dream of working on what you love and running your own business. But where do you start?

Cash and cheques are almost extinct as tools of commerce among small to medium size businesses, with credit cards and electronic transactions now the norm according to survey of Australian SMEs.

Yodalizer, a new Brisbane-based market intelligence analysis agency is on a mission to work with mid-tier SMEs to provide credible and up-to-date data to support business growth.