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All you need to know about Google Reviews

By Nick Brogden

Reviews are powerful because they help a business stand out in the Google Maps and search results. More than 90% of people value reviews since the majority of them are likely to not trust advertising.

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Podcast: How to rebuild your confidence after a loss (or several)

Erika Kramer went from not even being able to afford a loaf of bread to making over half a million dollars in 2020 from her business as a confidence coach. The solo business owner also hosts a super popular podcast and written a book ‘Confidence feels like Sh*T” all while raising her two young children. In this episode of the podcast she shares some incredible insights into how overcoming our confidence issues can propel us forward in life, love and work.

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The top 5 reasons why businesses fail in January

No one has the constitution for more negativity given the year we’ve all had. The best way to keep your business on track in the wake of a global pandemic is to get informed on the risks you face - what your potential threats are. Knowing is half the battle because you can have a plan B at the ready and take extra care not to fall victim to common mistakes. These are the top five reasons businesses fail during the holiday period.

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Why being in business just to make money isn’t enough anymore

By Karen Hollenbach

COVID-19 has forced a lot of organisations to be much more in tune with their client communities and stakeholders. It moves the focus of Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives that many corporations have pursued for some time into a new age of empathy, kindness and understanding. Hooray! This means organisations of all sizes have the opportunity to ponder and then take action around what social license they have to operate in our market. Being in business just to make money is probably not enough anymore.

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21 ways a Flying Solo membership will grow your small business

By Lucy Kippist

Thanks to the incredible integrity of its founders, Flying Solo is above all things a community. And my goal for 2021 is to make it bigger. Much bigger. The biggest! But before I can successfully sell you (or anyone) anything I have to be able to answer the question: Why is this worth your time? More accurately: Why is the Flying Solo membership worth your time?

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The 4 types of people worth meeting for a coffee

People have become insanely scheduled, obsessed with productivity and always trying to get more, from less. The beauty of the coffee date is that it is the antidote to all of that, a small block of time to sit, breath, and chat. It’s a place that magic happens, even more so if you don’t try and predetermine what that magic actually is.

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How to hire reliable freelancers remotely

Most employers have come to their senses and have noticed the benefit of hiring freelancers. The advantages of hiring freelancers are you do not require a physical office, you do not need to pay them a fixed salary whether you make them work or not and you can end the contract with them when the project is done. Freelancers compete for gigs, so the talent pool is stronger along with them being more productive.

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Podcast: 6 easy ways to digitise your small business processes

It can be easy for small business owners to "do what we've always done" because we think we're saving time… but that's not such a great thing when it comes to managing our data, says Anthony Sapountzis, co-founder of Aeiron Technologies.

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How to deal with the business ghoster

By Tom Valcanis

We’ve all been there. The emails, texts, and calls just stop from a promising business lead. We’ve been professionally “ghosted.” How can we cope and how can we prevent it from happening again?

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The essential opt-in offer guide

If you are a business who does business online (quick check, take down your website and turn off your email – if you still have a business after 1 month, you probably don’t need to read this ;-), and you don’t have an opt-in and you’re not harvesting new subscribers, you are passing up a huge value-add.

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Podcast: 4 free Facebook tools that boost small business performance

Given the challenges of this year, we’re all looking for ways to maximise the performance of our business without spending a fortune. Facebook have a range of terrific free business tools to help us perform at our best. Melinda Petrunoff, Facebook director of small and medium business for ANZ talks us through the 4 most crucial.

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How to avoid costly technology mistakes

Building a successful software/app product is challenging, and several vital mistakes are shared among those that have been interviewed by Andrew Romeo and Anthony Sapountzis, the DevReady Podcast Co-hosts. Aimed at non-techie businesses owners, DevReady Podcast speaks to startup founders about the struggles, uncertainty and challenges when building their technology from the ground up. All have experienced costly false starts when getting their business ideas off the ground.

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Should you make your side hustle your main business?

Is this the decade of the side hustle? It seems everyone has a passion project they’re nurturing while their regular job pays the bills. Whether it’s because the nature of work is shifting or entrepreneurialism is finally having its day, a side hustle is far from an unusual pastime. I know I’m not alone in saying that I think I’ve had side hustles for longer than I’ve had a full-time job.

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Let’s leave the word PIVOT where it belongs – on the stairs

By Leanne Faulkner

There are a few words related to business start-ups and small business growth that I have come to detest. PIVOT is at the top of my list. For some, it’s discriminatory. For some, it can be disempowering. It risks fostering a bad case of imposter-syndrome in some people (what’s the secret I’m not in on people?).

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Podcast 249: Women in business: This is what you need to know about superannuation

Christina Hobbs, founder of Verve Superannuation, the first superannuation fund founded by women FOR women in Australia talks us through the basics of making informed decisions about our superannuation and financial life when we’re running a small business.

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5 steps to achieving a frictionless customer experience

Frictionless customer experience is a phrase that is only now beginning to take flight. In 2018, Amazon released news about AmazonGo as an important step to making their customer experience frictionless.

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What football has taught me about running a small business

By David Koch

An exciting weekend of football Grand Finals ahead. Sadly my team, Port Adelaide,  failed at the last hurdle to make it to the AFL’s big dance. As President since 2013 it has been fascinating to be part of a professional sports organisation and observing how high performance teams operate. And I reckon all business owners can benefit from some of their strategies.

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3 simple ways to connect with your audience

All business owners right now are facing issues that we have never had to deal with and face in our lifetimes. We’ve had Covid-19, some states having to wear masks, live through different stages of lockdowns. The common thing that almost every Australian is feeling, however, is a distinct lack of connection with people.

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Podcast 242: How to stay productive when your work IS the distraction

As small business owners our jobs are often our passion. This means we don’t know when to stop working or ignore key aspects of our business by focussing on parts we enjoy the most. How do we overcome this? Author, podcaster and entrepreneur Steve Glaveski shares key productivity tips from new book, Time Rich.