Social media in the office…What rules?
Have you banned Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter in the workplace or are you actively encouraging staff to participate in online conversations?
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Anthill’s Top 10 Social Media Sites for Australian Entrepreneurs
There is a popular blog post currently doing the rounds – a list of 25 Social Media Sites for Entrepreneurs. It provides a brief description of 25 tools (including some familiar ones, such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn) but with very little analysis or commentary on each. Committing to any new social networking tool is time consuming. So, I figured it might be helpful to test each out and share my views on which are useful and which… quite simply… suck (i.e. are ugly, awkward and generally suck time from your day with very little return).
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Anthill's Top 10 Social Media Sites for Australian Entrepreneurs
There is a popular blog post currently doing the rounds – a list of 25 Social Media Sites for Entrepreneurs. It provides a brief description of 25 tools (including some familiar ones, such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn) but with very little analysis or commentary on each. Committing to any new social networking tool is time consuming. So, I figured it might be helpful to test each out and share my views on which are useful and which… quite simply… suck (i.e. are ugly, awkward and generally suck time from your day with very little return).
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Liubinskas at TechCrunch50: Aussie startup entrepreneurs from iPitch & spellr.us
Pollenizer’s Mick Liubinskas, Anthill’s man on the ground at this week’s TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco, has been wandering around with his trusty video camera hunting down Aussie startup entrepreneurs to interview for you.
In this first video, he interviews Green Lane Digital, the team behind iPitch, an online platform matching companies and investors. Below, Liubinskas catches up with another regular contributor, spellr.us founder Kevin Garber.
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ANTHILL TV | Featured TV Post | Funding & Finance | Marketing & Media | Startup & Entrepreneurship | Tech & Innovation
Liubinskas at TechCrunch50: Aussie startup entrepreneurs from iPitch & spellr.us
Pollenizer’s Mick Liubinskas, Anthill’s man on the ground at this week’s TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco, has been wandering around with his trusty video camera hunting down Aussie startup entrepreneurs to interview for you.
In this first video, he interviews Green Lane Digital, the team behind iPitch, an online platform matching companies and investors. Below, Liubinskas catches up with another regular contributor, spellr.us founder Kevin Garber.
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When and where to outsource your business functions
One of the most important skills a business leader can develop is being able to identify what to undertake in-house and what to outsource. As Dean Morelli explains, if you know where your company truly adds value, then outsourcing other functions of the business frees you up to add even more value.
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Man-size me
Since 1941 Kleenex have actually understood what it is that hits to the core of being a man who buys tissues. The one thing that is a symbol of unadorned manliness – huge, enormous, large, big and gargantuan-sized tissues that come in massive boxes. In recent months, other consumer brands seem to have caught on.
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Are you ‘fired’ up for the Aussie Apprentice?
The US TV series “The Apprentice”, like host Donald Trump himself, is not everybody’s cup of tea. But we like it. So, of course, we’ve been looking forward to the upcoming Australian version of the show. The star is Wizard Home Loans founder Mark Bouris, and occasional Anthill contributor Carmen Parnos is one of the contestants. If you haven’t seen it yet, here is Channel 9’s promo for The Apprentice Australia, which is expected to premiere later this month.
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Are you 'fired' up for the Aussie Apprentice?
The US TV series “The Apprentice”, like host Donald Trump himself, is not everybody’s cup of tea. But we like it. So, of course, we’ve been looking forward to the upcoming Australian version of the show. The star is Wizard Home Loans founder Mark Bouris, and occasional Anthill contributor Carmen Parnos is one of the contestants. If you haven’t seen it yet, here is Channel 9’s promo for The Apprentice Australia, which is expected to premiere later this month.
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Michael McGurk and negotiation tactics… gangster style
The events surrounding the death, last week, of Sydney businessman Michael McGurk have attracted greater intrigue and speculation than a Sopranos cliff-hanger. How someone can build a career on intimidation and extortion is beyond this author’s imagination. However, the fascinating events surrounding McGurk’s demise have got me thinking. What can we, as business-people, learn from the tactics of a stand-over man? Fortunately, I have only one resource to rely on. Gangster fiction!
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Unclaimed Nigerian oil money is a safer investment
The next time you get a proposal from a sales rep that quotes your spend as an “investment”, kick ’em in the butt and throw them out of your office. If they can’t pay you the courtesy of telling you the truth by calling it a “spend” or an “expense” or something that smells a lot less like bullshit, then you don’t want to do business with them.
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SMS payment for school canteen lunch orders now available via Easy Canteen
You might, from time to time, forget to give your kids money to pay for their lunch orders. Or perhaps your children have a habit of using the lunch money you give them to buy lollies instead of the alfalfa sandwiches for which it is intended. Either way, mHITs is hoping both parents and schools will sign up for Easy Canteen.
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How to use Twitter for business… This time, it’s personal.
Developed by Australian digital marketing consultant Clare Lancaster, this 21-page eBook is designed to teach businesses how to increase website visitors, leads and sales by connecting with people using Twitter.
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Campbell King, 2009 Anthill 30under30 winner
If copycat competitors are badges of honour for entrepreneurs, Campbell King had won three of them within the first six months of operation with his startup, Kegs on Legs.
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Is raising capital from your customers a smart move?
While most new technology developers will spend months chasing down angel investors and cold calling VCs, often with the randomness of a headless chook, without too much planning or forethought (much to the potential investor’s frustration), sometimes the safest money is already right under their noses. It’s called ‘strategic capital’ or ‘smart money’ (or a mix of the two).
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When seeking investment, preparation is everything
In part four of our series on the capital raising cultures in Australia and the US, San Francisco-based Steve Anderson explores how Australian and New Zealand entrepreneurs can best prepare for securing local investors.
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Forget pay-walls, the future of media is hyperdistribution
Jarvis points to one particularly interesting example of how media companies can encourage increased distribution and readership for their online content: The embeddable paper.
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How to get hired in sales – just ask Abott & Costello
Sometimes, all it takes to move ahead in life is being able to back up your fresh perspective with unique logic. Anyone can crank a widget, but how many people can prove that 7 x 13 = 28?
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How to get hired in sales – just ask Abott & Costello
Sometimes, all it takes to move ahead in life is being able to back up your fresh perspective with unique logic. Anyone can crank a widget, but how many people can prove that 7 x 13 = 28?
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Sammartino’s Creative Espresso – Ways to change your life
We’ve held on to this latest manic instalment of Steve Sammartino’s Creative Espresso series since he submitted it for inclusion in the July print edition, which didn’t eventuate. Here it is, in all its super-charged, creative glory.
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