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7 Ways To Get Organised For Start-Up Success

Being organised can make all the difference to the success of your new venture. It doesn't matter how fast your market is growing or how accomplished your talents are. If you don't organise yourself, then it becomes easy to get overwhelmed, miss deadlines, and lose clients. Here, then, are 7 ways to get organised [...]

The Surprising Truth About Influencing Others (Like it or Not, We’re All in Sales Now)

The Australian Businesswomen's Network

The Australian Businesswomen’s Network has announced a new webinar, To Sell is Human - The surprising truth about persuading, convincing and influencing others, that presents lessons that will change how you see your world and transform what you do at work and at home. The free one-hour webinar will be held on Tuesday, 23 May [...]

Commit to Selfishness

Alycia Edgar

Life is just one big juggle - the juggle of compromise. Some days I resent the juggle; I just want to do what I want. Selfish? Yes probably, but I think selfishness is a trait closely aligned with commitment. And we are all committed to our business, right? Commitment is defined as: "the act [...]

Creative Thinking and Vivid Ideas – Vivid Sydney’s Inspiring Women

The Australian Businesswomen's Network

This week, we feature three creative female industry leaders who are presenting as part of Vivid Sydney - Ideas. These businesswomen are part of a world-class program of free and ticketed talks to be held across Sydney from 24 May to 10 June. In these audio interviews, we look at why they started their businesses, [...]

Can the Right 'Uniform' Mean that You Mean Business?

Suzi Dafnis

You no doubt know the feeling of starting a new sport or hobby. When getting into a new sport, having the right shoes, bicycle, racket etc. are an essential part of being 'the real deal'. You need the tools that tell the world that you are part of the sport and you are a Crossfitter, [...]

Federal Budget mostly ignores Small Business

Victoria Taylor

Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan handed down his sixth federal budget last night and unlike most pre-election budgets, this one lacked splashy spending sprees and tax cut incentives. It’s early days in the analysis of the 2013 federal budget, but on the surface it appears small business’ wish list was largely ignored. The Australian [...]

NSW Strengthens Small Business Commissioner Role

Victoria Taylor

NSW Small Business Commissioner website The NSW Government says its Small Business Commissioner Bill 2013, passed by the Parliament on 2 May 2013, will even out the playing field for small business and bring business practices in NSW into a new era. The passing of this legislation makes the NSW Small Business Commissioner an independent statutory [...]

8 Tips to Write a Powerful Career Objective Statement

Susan Wareham McGrath

Does your résumé include a career objective statement? Some recruiters see them as a way to gain additional insight into a candidate’s application, while others don’t feel they add any real value. Whichever position you take, because recruiters spend on average ten seconds or less to decide whether to reject your résumé or read [...]

10 Ways to Boost the Performance of Your About Us Page

Bianca Board

The 2nd most viewed page on your site is usually your ‘about us’ page. Why? Because people want to know WHO they’re going to be dealing with. An online sale doesn’t always depend on how new and improved your widget is. It depends on you and whether they like or trust you. And that means [...]

Napoleon Bonaparte, Hollywood and Your Local Chamber of Commerce

Nerida Gill

What do Napoleon Bonaparte and Hollywood have in common? That’s not the start of a very corny joke — there’s really is a connection... both are strongly linked with a chamber of commerce. Napoleon, history’s most famous military strategist, obviously also had a good head for business too because he established the Paris Chamber of [...]