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• Reduce stress: Get out of the emergency zone

  Does your business seem to run from one emergency to another? Here’s how to reduce stress, get out of the emergency zone and get your business running smoothly.

  • Yesterday
  • Zern Liew
  • 2 Comments

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  Need A New Website?

  An effective website is vital for every small business. If your website isn’t performing, or you don’t have one, speak to the team at The Web Showroom. They are Australia’s leader in small business websites.

• Business mastermind groups: Online vs offline

  The explosion of social media in its many and varied forms has led a number of people to wonder: is there still a place for the business mastermind group? I firmly believe the answer is yes.

  • 01 July 09
  • Karen Morris
  • 6 Comments

• Avoiding early adopter anguish

  If you regularly worry that you’re missing the boat on some new innovation, or get rattled by the continual brilliance of others, rest assured, you’re not alone.

  • 30 June 09
  • Robert Gerrish
  • 28 Comments

• Project planning: 8 ways to kill your project

  There are actions I’ve seen which are guaranteed to kill your project’s chance of success. Here are eight ways projects get sabotaged, and project planning tips to prevent them.

  • 29 June 09
  • Greg Pritchard
  • 4 Comments

• The Big O – Being organised!

  Any improvements you make to your business processes will relate directly to your clientele numbers. Which of course relate directly to your balance sheet. It’s simple: being more organised equals more profit.

  • 26 June 09
  • Roz Howland
  • 6 Comments

• Review: The Website Marketing Handbook 2009

  Here’s a great, free resource available for subscribers to Flying Solo. If you’ve ever wondered if you could be doing more with your website, this truly is a must-read.

  • 25 June 09
  • Robert Gerrish

• Business boundaries: Are you too available?

  Is there any such thing as being “too available” to your customers? Surely if we want our soloist businesses to thrive we need to be available for our clients whenever they need/want us? Or do we need to set business boundaries?

  • 24 June 09
  • Linda Anderson
  • 9 Comments

• Could you sell your business?

  You’ve worked hard, built up a good customer base and established a profitable niche for your business, but is it actually worth anything? Would anyone buy your business?

  • 23 June 09
  • Peter Crocker
  • 34 Comments

• The easiest way to better marketing

  The key to better marketing is to focus on the benefits, not just the features, of what you offer. Here's how to create a list of compelling benefits for your business, and use it to boost your marketing results.

  • 22 June 09
  • Charles Cuninghame
  • 7 Comments

• Avoiding business failure

  A chance encounter with a farmer, who told me about his ailing business, got me thinking about ways to avoid business failure. Here’s what happened.

  • 19 June 09
  • Zoe Routh
  • 7 Comments

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