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  • Tips for Getting Started with Social Media

    Tips for Getting Started with Social Media

    14 May 2013 | Catriona Pollard | No Comments

    Social media is a helpful communication tool for businesses as it allows them to communicate directly with customers and engage them in conversations. Social media can also help you to increase your customers’ brand awareness and find new contacts or business opportunities.   If you want to become active on social media, but don’t know [...]

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  • Award-winning Fashion Retailer Jane Cay Adapts with the Market to Stay Ahead in Online Retail

    Award-winning Fashion Retailer Jane Cay Adapts with the Market to Stay Ahead in Online Retail

    27 November 2012 | 1 Comment

    Jane Cay is the owner of Birdsnest, an online retail company that aims to solve women’s wardrobe dilemmas by focusing on product delivery as well as customer service. Having been established for four years now, the business aims to provide the best of both online and traditional retail with their unique showroom model. The world [...]

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  • SEO and Social Media Help New Online Retailer Drive Traffic to Her Website

    SEO and Social Media Help New Online Retailer Drive Traffic to Her Website

    21 November 2012 | No Comments

    Janie Bartlett entered the world of online retail four months ago. Her brand, My Best Friend Is A Bag, designs and manufactures a range of stylish, practical leather bags for busy working women. Being a relatively new company with no existing brand equity to draw on, Janie prioritises her marketing and PR strategies in order [...]

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  • Recruiter Breaks through Regional ‘Boys Club’ to Build Award-Winning Business

    Recruiter Breaks through Regional ‘Boys Club’ to Build Award-Winning Business

    19 November 2012 | No Comments

    Kristy-Lee Johnston runs The Footprint Group, a consultancy business that works with businesses to improve their performance and operational efficiencies by providing recruitment strategies and services. After discovering a gap in the market for a locally based professional services recruiter, Kristy-Lee established the first Footprint Recruitment Office at East Gosford in 2006. Working within a [...]

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  • Regional Copywriter’s Confidence Boosted by Access to Peers and Resources

    Regional Copywriter’s Confidence Boosted by Access to Peers and Resources

    15 November 2012 | No Comments

    Belinda Weaver is the owner of Copywrite Matters, which helps businesses find and communicate their unique voice across their online and offline marketing. From website copywriting and blog writing, to more traditional approaches like brochures and flyers, the company is a specialist in marketing and communications. When Belinda first started out, though, she wasn’t sure [...]

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  • Gift Retailer Blends Quick Service with Technology to Build Strong Customer Relationships

    Gift Retailer Blends Quick Service with Technology to Build Strong Customer Relationships

    14 November 2012 | No Comments

    Heather Winchcomb launched her online store, Gifts for Blokes, in 2007 when online shopping was still its infancy. An online gift store that aims to make shopping for men easier, the business was inspired by a series of conversations between Heather and her friends about the difficulty of finding the perfect gift for the men [...]

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  • Technology Helps Wagga Wagga Designer Make Waves Across Australia

    Technology Helps Wagga Wagga Designer Make Waves Across Australia

    13 November 2012 | 1 Comment

    Running a successful web development business from the shores of an idyllic beach location is a dream beyond the reach of most people. For Bianca Board, it’s an everyday reality. Bianca is the woman behind Web123, a web design company that specialises in high-quality, professional websites for small businesses on a small budget. Having spent [...]

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Podcasts

Social Callout: The New Trend of Businesses and Brands Working with Bloggers

Katrina Allen is the co-founder of Social Callout, a website that connects brands with bloggers and social media influencers. In this new episode of Social Media for Small Business, Katrina tells us how businesses can benefit from working with bloggers, the common mistakes businesses make when engaging with bloggers, the types of businesses that use [...]

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How to Use Photo-Sharing App Instagram to Generate Tangible Results for Your Business

Jen Bishop is a full-time blogger for her popular blog Interiors Addict. Jen was named one of 20 bloggers to watch in 2012 by Problogger, and she was a finalist in the Best Australian Blogs Competition 2012. In this new Social Media for Small Business podcast, Jen tells us how to get tangible results using photosharing app [...]

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Pinterest Power: Market Your Business and Sell Your Products on the World’s Hottest Social Network

Karen Lacey is the co-author of Pinterest Power: Market Your Business, Sell Your Products and Build Your Brand on the World’s Hottest Social Network. In this interview, Karen explains the top 5 reasons you should be using Pinterest for your business, specific benefits of Pinterest for small business, how to integrate Pinterest into other social [...]

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LinkedIn for Small Business: How to Leverage the World’s Largest Professional Network

Jo Saunders, Director of Wildfire Social Marketing, has a passion for helping small business owners leverage social media and online marketing. In this episode of the Social Media for Small Business podcast, Jo explains how to set up your LinkedIn profile to maximise its effectiveness and how to ensure you're found in searches.   Mentioned [...]

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Social Media Marketing on a Shoestring Budget

Cameron Parker runs Marketing and Operations for Black Milk Clothing, a multi-million dollar, 100% Australian-owned online clothing store. Cameron has over 10 years of Marketing and Advertising experience working in Australia and the UK. In this episode of the Social Media for Small Business podcast, Cameron shares how Black Milk Clothing encourages and drives their [...]

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Videos

How Online Marketplace Etsy Thinks Small Businesses Can Take Advantage of Technology

Nicole Vanderbilt of Etsy is the Country Manager for Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the UK. Etsy is the world’s handmade marketplace and recently was listed by Forbes as one of the top 10 tech companies of 2012. It is also a website with a lot of web traffic and therefore a great platform for [...]

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Ideas to Increase Your Productivity at Work as a Small Business Owner

Linda Kozlowski has more than 18 years of experience in international marketing, public relations and customer service. At Evernote, she leads Market Development for the Asia Pacific Region, including marketing, PR and development of marketing partnerships. Evernote is helping the world remember everything by building innovative products and services that allow individuals to capture, find [...]

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The Virtual Workplace: Build the Capacity of Your Business, Without the Overhead

Jaleh Bisharat is the Vice President of Marketing at oDesk, the world’s largest online workplace with more than 500,000 businesses and 3 million contractors. Australia is the largest user of oDesk per capita. In this video episode of herBusiness.tv, Jaleh discusses: How to build the capacity of your business with oDesk, without the overhead How [...]

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SXSW 2013: Closing Remarks - 100 Year Startups, Viral Marketing and Crowdfunding

SXSW 2013: Closing Remarks - 100 Year Startups, Viral Marketing and Crowdfunding

On the final day of SXSW Interactive 2013, Cat Matson and Suzi Dafnis recap the highlights of the day and identify the big themes for this year's interactive festival. Watch to hear: What Phil Libin, Evernote CEO, said about exit strategies and playing a zero sum game Why evernote is designed to be a 100 [...]

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SXSW Highlights from Book of Business Awesome author Scott Stratten and Dennis Crowley of Foursquare

SXSW Highlights from Book of Business Awesome author Scott Stratten and Dennis Crowley of Foursquare

It's Day 4 of South By South West and Cat Matson and Suzi Dafnis recap the day's highlights. Once again it was a full day of learning and big-picture thinking. One of Suzi's favourite social tools, foursquare was on the agenda, with founder Dennis Crowley taking the stage to talk about the future of location. [...]

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