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Could the mobile phone market be stagnating? (The next billion is gonna be a stretch.)
The first billion was easy. So were the next few. But the next is going to take some doing, it seems. That is the outlook for the cellphone industry, which has quickly grown from a nimble startup and, today, has nearly five billion users. Still, the industry resembles a frustrated teen in a hurry for further growth.
Crowdsource your financial modelling? New Aussie online marketplace launches for lovers of spreadsheets.
Just because your CV says you’re a spreadsheet maestro, doesn’t make it true. Before you flub your company’s finances, check out new Melbourne-based online marketplace Vumero.
Another blow to Australian online retail. For shoppers without borders, the U.K. beckons.
Ever since the Australian dollar attained parity with its American equivalent 16 months ago, the market dynamic has transformed. Besides its fundamental impact on the broader Australian economy, it has led to changes in consumer behavior as foreign goods became cheaper. It opened up the floodgates for imports, giving rise to specialised sites such as Online Shopping USA that help Australians navigate the tricky global online shopping market.
Should we be encouraging teenagers to bootleg homebrew in their lunch breaks?
The only time I was ever grounded by my parents was in high school – my mother had discovered a wad of hundreds of dollars in cold hard cash in my top draw and had assumed what all mothers fear most: that I was developing an expensive heroin addiction in my spare time. Of course, my mother didn’t believe my excuse – that I was providing financial backing for my friend’s start-up ebay business; because everyone knows 15-year-old high-school students could not possibly start their own business. Right?
Successful business management is all about marketing, marketing and more marketing. (Three tips and traps)
If property investment is all about location, location and location, successful business management is all about marketing, marketing and marketing. One of the most common causes of business failures is a failure to understand all there is to know about the market and the potential customer. Entrepreneurs need to gain this knowledge even before developing a product or service. Here are three marketing questions you should ask yourself and answer to succeed in business.
Australia is one of few OECD countries to reduce its overall debt since the GFC
Four years after the Global Financial Crisis, global economies continue to suffer from its overhang. In fact, most nations that tried to spend their way through the turmoil have accumulated more debt, threatening their economies and, in cases like the Eurozone, raising dire possibilities for the global economy as well. Not Australia, however, which late [...]
Interface Innovation and Inovia join forces to launch online patent filing service
Interface Innovation and Inovia have given hands to launch a new online patent filing platform which will allow Australian innovators to file patents overseas. According to Dr. Kiki Tanousis, a director of Interface innovation, the new online service aims to drop the prices of filing patents overseas, which is one of the most costly processes in the patenting process.
Soup stirs the Facebook pot to discover word-of-mouth nuggets
What’s word of mouth got to do with Facebook? Plenty, says Soup, an advocacy marketing agency distinguished by its extraordinary faith in word-of-mouth campaigns. The Sydney firm’s experimental Soup Lab has developed what it claims is a “world-first” Facebook app of its kind and embarked on a research project with Dr. Lars Groeger, a marketing lecturer at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management, to measure the reach and value of “branded conversations.”
What is crowd-funding? And why can’t we get the legislation to support it in Australia?
How cool (and efficient) would it be if you could tap Facebook not just to network with your friends but to also raise capital for your startup? Or perhaps LinkedIn? Or even Twitter. In November, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Bill that will enable startups to raise capital in novel, and informal, ways. So, how why can we get the legislation to support crowd-funding in Australia?
Hudson Report: Labour’s prospects declining, but all not lost
The Hudson Report’s New Year card reveals Australia to be still positive despite rising negative international sentiment. Over a third of surveyed hiring managers said they intended to increase permanent headcount over the coming three months. Still, over the past quarter some amount of optimism has faded – precisely by 2.2 percentage points to an overall 25.7% level.
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