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Why A Website is Vital for a Small Business

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With smartphones at our fingertips, customers are searching online more than anywhere else to research a product. As a small business owner, it’s critical that you have a website ready for customers who are looking you up. Understanding why it is important and figuring out where to start can be intimidating. Here’s what you need…

MAKE SURE YOUR CUSTOMERS KEEP COMING BACK

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Small businesses will often say that their number one goal is business growth. But where does business growth come from? An easy answer to this can be “attracting new customers”. But attracting new customers can come at a very high price. Marketing has become increasingly difficult with online advertising and social media offering. Competition is…

How to get the most from your accountant

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The best accountants add value to your business, all for an affordable cost that you can control. Growing businesses rapidly find they need the services of an accountant in order to help them manage the finances of their business. But which services do you actually need, how should you pay for them, and how do…

Can Melbourne Build 63,000 new dwellings p.a. over the next 35?

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  To quote an article by the Victorian Chief Executive of the Urban Development Institute of Australia, the state government’s latest population forecast, Victoria in Future 2016, indicates Melbourne’s population is set to double within 15 years, with Melbourne’s inner and middle suburbs expected to grow by almost 1 million in that time. For investors…

Important: Businesses making sure they’re paying their employees correctly!

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  This weeks blog follows the recent event where Mamak Malaysian restaurant fined almost $300,000 for short-changing workers! The operators of Mamak Malaysian restaurant in Haymarket have been fined almost $300,000 for paying workers as little as $11 an hour. Federal Circuit Court Judge Justin Smith found the Goulburn Street restaurant had deliberately ignored its…

The Glory Years of Newcastle’s Music Scene.

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  ROCK GODS: Newcastle band A Rabbit performing at Nobbys Beach in January 1977. From left, Jim Porteus, David Hinds, Dave Evans and Barry Litten. Picture: Courtesy of David Hinds THE pub rock scene in Newcastle during the 1970s and ’80s was a time far removed from the city’s current entertainment trends. Across Newcastle and…

Entrepreneur life… what no one tells you!

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  Today’s Blog is an article based on womens shoe designer, Jock Farweather and his experience of becomming an Entrepreneur. Enjoy! When I started my first international company I was in my late teens, and it’s safe to say that mostly I had no idea what to expect. As an entrepreneur, no two days are…

Small bars continue to grow as drinking landscape recovers from lockouts!

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  The small bar expansion in Sydney, and its outer suburbs continues to attract new licensees, with no signs of it abating but NSW government legislation is hurting the industry. Lockout laws and a change in the legislation restricting patronage means profitability is becoming limited. This Must be the Place small bar owner Luke Ashton…
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Pizza Chain Eagle Boys collapse into administration

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Today’s blog comes from a recent event in the hospitality industry which involved the voluntry administration of Eagle Boys, the nation’s third largest pizza chain. The pizza chain’s head office called in administrators SV Partners on Thursday, but insists its 120 or so franchisees will continue to trade while a potential sale is negotiated. Eagle…
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