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There are several key elements affecting the overall economy, and the stability or otherwise of each can be integral to your business’s viability for the year ahead. JAMES THOMSON surveys the likely scenarios. ...
If the only constant is change, we have no choice but to deal with it. Why not do so in a positive way? TIM SHARP By Tim SharpI have, in recent weeks, had several conversation...
  Not even six months ago, search engine experts dismissed suggestions that Microsoft's new search engine, Bing, could ever challenge Google. Now, those same experts have admitted they were wrong. According to analytics firm StatCounter, Microsoft's new Bing search engine increased its US market share in July from 8.23% to 9.41%, while G...
A smarter, longer-lasting, underwater welding technology launched Neptune Marine Services, but it is clever and sustained marketing and management that has kept it afloat. By TIM TREADGOLDBy Tim Treadgold
The SmartCompany Crown Lager Business Start Up Awards attracted over 120 entries. While not every company is big enough to make our list of the 50 fastest growing start ups, we wanted to acknowledge the up and coming future start up stars. Oodles.com Founder(s): Steve Sherlock, Des SherlockIndustry:...
There are several secrets to use to improve your online marketing. Here are a few...Advice on planning your online marketing for this financial yearNew year, new budget. Here are the secrets my best clients use to plan thei...
There are plenty of gift ideas for the home-based entrepreneur in your life. Here are some must-haves and some stocking fillers...Top 20 best Christmas gifts for the home-based business operator1. Mas...
Property values across the combined capital cities fell by -3.6% over the 2011 calendar year, marking one of the weakest years for housing market conditions in recent memory. Over the 2010 calendar year property values across the capital cities had increased by 5.1% highlighting the marked slowdown in recent times. Home values f...
The net effect of yesterday's decision by the RBA to normalise its official target cash rate back to 4.5% is to hand back to borrowers the large top-ups the major banks added to the RBA's November 2010 rate hike. Privately the RBA was surprised by the magnitude of these top-ups. On October 21 I anticipated that they would do exactly this should the third-quarter inflation data print less than 0.6%:...
Two aged care centres are up for sale after the parent company of the two businesses was placed in administration, months after the company was given a sanction relating to non-compliance. The administration goes against the trend of a booming aged care sector, with aged care enjoying significant gains due to the ageing population. Nepean Hospitals was placed in administration in February, with Stephen Dixon and Andrew Hewitt of Grant Thornton appointed. The business operate...
Six out of every 10 people alive on Earth, including children, the elderly and people in developing countries, now have a mobile phone, with one in every four mobile phone owners worldwide now owning a smartphone, according to startling new figures on the worldwide mobile phone market. The figures, compiled in the 2012 edition of Tomi Ahonen Consulting's Tomi Ahonen Phone Book, estimates that for a total global po...
Preparing your business for sale will not only help maximise the value, but can quicken up the sale process. By TOM McKASKILL.By Tom McKaskillBusiness owners who wake up one day desp...
Builders surveyed by Master Builders Australia expect overall residential and commercial construction activ­ity to be lower over the next six months, in line with a bleak forecast released earlier by the Housing Industry Association. In MBA's December quarter survey, builder sentiment sits below the neutral or satisfactory 50 mark with both residential and non-residenti...
So the RBA held interest rates steady at its February meeting, which is what I expected, characterising economic growth as "close to trend" and inflation "close to target". I had previously argued that holding in February was a no-brainer from a pure policy-setting perspective. However, the RBA operates in a world of complex practical constraints, the biggest of which is that the RBA's board is, unusually, dominated by six private sector individuals with a natural bias towards lower...
Looking at RP Data-Rismark's daily hedonic home value index, which is also published by the Australian Stock Exchange, we can see that the "stabilisation" evident in Australia's housing market in 2012 has galvanized further during the month of April.   Australian home values are now in the black for the first time in 2012, having fully recovered from the drop recorded during the seasonally-weak month of January. At April 10, 2...
New ComTech market share figures have revealed Apple iOS has reclaimed the top spot in the US market, with higher sales than all Google Android manufacturers combined, despite struggling in several of Europe’s largest economies. The figures reveal Apple’s US market share has hit 48.1% off strong sales of the iPhone 5, while the combined market share of all Android...
Samsung has announced it intends to launch a high-end smartphone based on a new smartphone platform the Korean electronics maker has been co-developing with Intel, called Tizen, in August or September of this year. According to Bloomberg, the revelation the smartphone giant is going ahead with launching a high-end smartphone running the new platform, rather tha...