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Are you looking to boost your business sales using social media? Here are 5...

Social media is a vital tool for all business’ big and small. Utilize this platform successfully and it can help boost almost every aspect of your business.

4 tips to keep in mind on how to hire fast – without damaging...

Having grown their team by 70% in the last year, Vamp’s Aaron Brooks reflects on hard lessons learned from a year of recruitment

Here are 4 key strategies you can use to help your business boom in...

Taking your small business to the international stage can be very challenging particularly considering your small budget, limited international exposure, and economic uncertainties in different parts of the world.

Marketing is like dating: how to take your prospects from Tinder to ‘Netflix and...

Marketing is much like dating. There are a series of steps and events that must take place in order for a relationship to develop and get more serious.

Here are 7 tips to keep in mind about raising capital for your second...

Success breeds success, or so they say. ‘They’ probably weren’t running a successful business while trying to capital-raise for a second one at the same time.

These are 5 marketing tactics every small business should be focusing on in 2019

Keeping a small business afloat is hard enough without having to worry about marketing online and connecting with audiences on social media. I get it, you’re swamped and you probably don’t know the first thing about marketing. But what if I told you that this was a sure fire way to rapidly scale if not double your business?

These are the top 2019 trends to watch in recruitment and onboarding automation

In 2019 HR specialists will be creating bespoke recruitment and onboarding workflow design processes, from hire-to-retire.

How WeWork is going about creating a work community that meets human needs

At WeWork, our primary focus is to provide a community to all of our members. Whilst we’re known for creating dynamic places for people to work, our true success comes from combining multiple factors that encourage interaction, incorporating community areas, social events and networking.

Looking to foster collaboration in a digital workforce? Here 3 key tips to keep...

So it's a question of how do you bridge that gap, even in a technology business or digital business, with access to digital tools and a digital workforce? How do you bridge the old approach and the new approach?

5 key steps you can take to make your employee mentoring more effective

Employee mentoring programs are an important aspect for companies to foster connections between junior and senior employees. Large, successful brands, such as Time Warner, General Electric, and Deloitte, run these type of programs to keep employees informed, engaged and happy.

Here are 5 great tips on how to successfully balance being a CEO and...

So what happens when you’re CEO of a busy company who also has a dream of pursuing their ‘hobby’? How can you balance the two, be great at both and not burn out in the process?

Startup accountant or suburban accountant? Who does your business need?

The "suburban accountant" may be fine as far a plain personal tax return goes but when addressing the complexities of scaling an innovative business – a boutique startup accounting firm already in the space is likely to be the better route.

Here are 4 powerful collaboration examples that you can use to propel brand growth

With that being said, collaboration marketing is an alternative way for brands both large and small to achieve their business goals by looking for smart ways to drive growth. That means, working with each other—and the key to this is looking for business synergy by creating win-win scenarios.

Here are 7 digital marketing trends your business needs to pay attention to in...

The new year is here, and digital marketing is more advanced and innovative than ever before. It is very likely that the strategies you used last year won’t be effective in 2019.

This is why communication is so important when developing your technology ideas

It is interesting how in the age of technology, and with the support of the technology, communication problems have increased, rather than reducing as you would expect. You may or may not be surprised, but this is also the case for the software development industry.

Don’t drop the ball! Here are 8 growth tips on how to sustain your...

Successful businesses are often the most difficult to improve, but without constant progression, it is easy to reach a plateau. Knowing where to look may be difficult, but here are seven areas to consider.

Right on time: here’s how small businesses can go about avoiding late payments

Large Australian companies and institutions are infamously bad at paying smaller businesses on time. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission reports that nearly three quarters of all invoices are paid late.

The ultimate guide to choosing the right e-commerce platform for your business

To create a feature-rich eCommerce store, the first step is to choose the right eCommerce development platform. Here's the comprehensive guide to picking a platform with a user-centric approach.

Looking to cross more borders? Here are essential tips to grow your export business

‘Knowledge is power’ as the old saying goes, and this could not be truer for businesses that export into international markets. Many clients I work...

Is your business providing snacks and food for its employees? Here’s why it should

It is becoming common place for companies to offer their employees free lunches, or at the very least, free snacks and drinks. It’s a trend that started popping up at tech giants like Google, Facebook and Twitter, but stories of the successes of these programs have spread and the idea seems to be taking off.
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Five essential things to get right if you want to raise...

So you’ve got a brilliant idea, or maybe you’ve even started building your nascent business, but you think it might help to bring on some extra money. You try to raise the money, but wherever you go it seems there are roadblocks and challenges, and it’s difficult to know where to start. To help tackle this tricky tropic, we interviewed Bryan Vadas. He’s the founder of iPledg (Australia’s leading crowdfunding platform for creative, commercial, charitable and community projects) and Capital Exchange Australia (an education and funding platform for startups).

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HOW TO RECRUIT THE BEST PEOPLE with Sam Chandler

Plenty of recruitment agencies have tallied the numbers and found that the average dud hire will cost an organisation between $50,000 and $70,000, factoring...

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New Zealand’s Xero eyes US IPO, further disruption as subscribers increase...

Xero recently held its annual meeting in Wellington, during which the company revealed some interesting details about its future. As has been widely suspected, the...

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