Productivity
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Productivity
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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Professional development
How to deal with the business ghoster
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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Professional development
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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Professional development
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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Professional development
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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Productivity
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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FROM THE FORUMS
Delegate, delegate, delegate. How true is it though?
Hi everyone, I have started a new business 3 weeks ago. It's a cafe and I am very happy about how it is going. Now, I am stuck in the kitchen and I feel like I…
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Productivity
Let’s leave the word PIVOT where it belongs – on the stairs
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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Professional development
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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Productivity
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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Productivity
What football has taught me about running a small business
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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Professional development
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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Productivity
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.
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FROM THE FORUMS
2016. I'll Show Your Mine If You Show Me Yours
2016 has been a year to remember for me. My cleaning business has more than doubled through the year so pretty soon we won't be able to call ourselves the little…
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Productivity
Am I really ready to win government business?
Many small businesses are already perfectly placed to win Government contracts. Unfortunately, they just don’t know how close they are. Now they have help.
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Productivity
Podcast 238: I have learnt to run my business in 3 hours a day
Lisa Corduff knows about challenging years. The business owner and solo mum of 3 lost her husband last year in tragic circumstances. Then COVID hit. As she’s based in Victoria that's meant 2 rounds of lockdown, 3 kids to homeschool and a successful business to run in just 3 hours a day. This is how she's managed it all.
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Productivity
How to make the next 3 months your best yet
Instead of feeling defeated by this year, why not take back control now and choose to end the year on a high? I’ve had so many people say that they can’t wait to see the back of 2020.
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Professional development
How to use the featured section on your LinkedIn profile
The LinkedIn profile featured section enables you to showcase posts, LinkedIn articles, links and documents on your LinkedIn Profile. This is one of my favourite LinkedIn Profile features because of how it allows you to feature content. And while it’s true that you could previously publish LinkedIn articles and add links and photos to the About, experience and some other sections of your profiles, the featured section changes the prominence a LinkedIn article now has on your LinkedIn Profile, lets you feature posts and does a better job of showcasing external website link imagery.
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Productivity
Everyday rituals and habits that help me grow my business
My family calls me lazy. My partner teases me for being disorganised, but then again he would, because he’s one of those annoying over-organised, super productive people, who manages grocery shopping, cooking, laundry and will soon be taking charge of home schooling, seeing as how he has little, or no, work right now (he’s also self-employed).
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Productivity
Two ways to make Mondays more productive you haven’t heard about
Call me annoying but I always try and look for the best in a Monday. Actually don’t tell anyone but they’re practically my favourite day of the week because they feel full of possibility - but only if you come prepared. Here are 2 clever hacks I discovered recently that come with a guarantee to kickstart a new week.
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Professional development
How to identify and manage uncertainties
On 31 December 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) learned of several cases of severe pneumonia in the Chinese city of Wuhan. This strain of coronavirus has since spread through China and into other countries. WHO later named COVID-19.
