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Marie Quak, Ducks in a Row Professional Organising

Marie Quak, Ducks in a Row Professional Organising

We organise businesses and homes to declutter their environment (and their minds), to alleviate their stress, and to streamline their processes so ... Read more

Lidia Scotto di Vetta, Sweet Pins

Lidia Scotto di Vetta, Sweet Pins

Sweet Pins sells hosiery from some of the best brands around the world to women who still take pleasure in wearing gorgeous stockings or want to co... Read more

Emma Bannister, Presentation Studio

Emma Bannister, Presentation Studio

Presentation Studio offers a complete presentation design service, from PowerPoint Templates and Design, and Training to Public Speaker coaching. T... Read more

Sarah Jenkins, SignaturePhoto Photography Courses

Sarah Jenkins, SignaturePhoto Photography Courses

Sarah Jenkins teaches half-day and 1-day photography courses in Sydney to beginners who have just bought their first DSLR camera as well as more in... Read more

Deb Pilgrim

Deb Pilgrim

Deb Pilgrim helps small business owners start, grow and lead their business, so that they can create the life they want. Read more

Donna Garrett-Young, Home Building Made Easy

Donna Garrett-Young, Home Building Made Easy

Donna Garrett-Young has been a passionate renovator and builder for nearly 20 years, and is the author of the book 'Home Building Made Easy - Five ... Read more

Jan Freitag, Proxim Group

Jan Freitag, Proxim Group

Combining both business coaching and business consulting services, the Proxim Group offers a fully comprehensive approach to helping small business... Read more

Peter Crocker, Sam Leader, Robert Gerrish - Flying Solo

Peter Crocker, Sam Leader, Robert Gerrish - Flying Solo

Peter Crocker, marketing head honcho, Sam Leader, editorial big cheese and Robert Gerrish, founder and general nuisance spill the beans. Read more

Felicity Van Rysbergen, Well Versed Copywriting

Felicity Van Rysbergen, Well Versed Copywriting

Well Versed Copywriting specialises in creating corporate web content, information architecture and analysis, and marketing documentation for a bro... Read more

Bev Wilkinson, Golden Days Images

Bev Wilkinson, Golden Days Images

Golden Days Images preserves old photos and places them on DVD and CD. They are also branching out into capturing small events involving filming an... Read more

Andrew Pride, Smart-Biz Consulting

Andrew Pride, Smart-Biz Consulting

Andrew provides business improvement advice, coaching and consulting services to businesses, especially in the manufacturing, trades and services s... Read more

Maria Lesar, H.A.P.S. Business Solutions

Maria Lesar, H.A.P.S. Business Solutions

Maria is an experienced bookkeeper organising small businesses. She assists clients with setting up their new business ensuring they have applied ... Read more

Jane Hinchey, Ace Video Marketing

Jane Hinchey, Ace Video Marketing

Jane Hinchey is an online video producer who makes videos for entrepreneurs and small business owners to help drive traffic to their website and sh... Read more

Bob Jones, an SEO Company

Bob Jones, an SEO Company

'an SEO Company' provides authentic SEO services for small businesses in Australia. Read more

Paula Durrant, Durrant’s Accounting Services Pty Ltd

Paula Durrant, Durrant’s Accounting Services Pty Ltd

Paula Durrant is a tax accountant for small to medium businesses, and high income individuals. Read more

Nicole O’Reilly, Anyhoodles

Nicole O’Reilly, Anyhoodles

Anyhoodles helps small business improve their online presence through new and improved websites and SEO strategies. Read more

Kate James, Total Balance

Kate James, Total Balance

Through her business coaching and life coaching, Kate James works with the concepts of mindfulness, creativity and authenticity to help people chan... Read more

Tim Pacheco, Function5 Web Design

Tim Pacheco, Function5 Web Design

Function5 Web Design creates and manages an online presence for small businesses, from basic information websites through to feature rich shopping ... Read more

Simon Usher, Balloon Awesomeness

Simon Usher, Balloon Awesomeness

Balloon Awesomeness provides awesome balloon twisting entertainment for anyone aged 0-100. Ideal for a corporate team building workshop or as rovin... Read more

Amanda Pearce, Amanda Pearce Bookkeeping

Amanda Pearce, Amanda Pearce Bookkeeping

Amanda Pearce is an Australian MYOB bookkeeper and virtual assistant who works with small companies. Read more

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Startup | Office administration

Office administration may not be one of the most exciting parts of running your own business, but getting organised can have a major impact on your business performance, efficiency and overall wellbeing.

Here you will find plenty of useful organisational tips including how to declutter your desk, how to organise your office and information on the relationship between an organised office and better business performance. Taking the time to get organised really can improve business performance.

Subcontractor agreements: Contracts for sub-contractors

11 Sep 10 | David Moore

Engaging sub-contractors can help you grow your business without taking on any debt. But it pays to put plenty of thought into your subcontractor agreements first. Read more

Comments: 15

What’s your excuse for being disorganised?

12 Jan 10 | Roz Howland

Is disorganisation preventing you from acting on ideas and opportunities that you know would be valuable? Drop the excuses for being disorganised and watch your productivity soar! Read more

Comments: 17

Ten tasks for the festive season

20 Dec 07 | Megan Tough

If you're expecting some downtime over the holidays and you are, like most soloists, not great at switching off, check out these ideas for making the most of your spare time. Read more

Comments: 5

Five back office management tips

12 Feb 07 | Robert Gerrish

If there's one thing that can get in the way of a smooth running solo enterprise, it's the lack of organised back office management. Sadly it's not unusual to see a business that fronts up well yet is a disaster behind the scenes. Read more

Comments: 11

Get organised, get business!

06 Jan 07 | Kim McGuinness

The relationship between an organised office and a healthy business are plain to see. What's more, now is a great time to declutter your office. Read more

Comments: 6

 

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