Free Recruitment Services and Advice for your business

Are you looking to hire new staff in 2010? You can access free recruitment services and advice to help you find the right staff for your business.

Job Services Australia providers are located in more than 2000 locations across Australia, and can help you with:

• candidate screening and short-listing support to help you find appropriately skilled job seekers

• work experience opportunities

• access to the Australian Government’s free online Australian JobSearch database to register staff vacancies and search for new staff directly

• opportunities for wage assistance and subsidies.

Contact your local Job Services Australia provider to find out how they can help your business. Find your local Job Services Australia provider by visiting the Jobsearch website or phone 13 17 64.

Source:  business.gov.au

The Value of Pictures on your website

A single picture can already express so many things. We all know this for a fact. As seen in the various forms of media especially in newspapers and magazines, a picture adds beauty to just plain text.

This is also true on the internet. The presence of wonderful pictures make internet surfing fun and never boring. Isn’t it that we easily get captivated first by the pictures we see rather than the text on display? Since most internet users are aware of this, utilizing pictures is a sure way to get readers’ attention.

People involved in any form of business online normally venture into article writing and marketing to raise awareness on their offerings and worthy endeavors to a wider audience. But don’t just simply write articles. Make it a point to create an interesting and detailed author bio with picture as well to go with your article. Read more

How Email Autoresponders can help streamline your Business

Autoresponders are perfect tools for busy business people. In fact, set them up correctly and autoresponders can help you reply to your huge volume of email without even touching your computer.

What is an autoresponder?
An autoresponder is a type of computer program that automatically responds to your emails as they enter your computer inbox.  People will receive an instant response from you, based on the rules you have set for each type of email.

How can you use an autoresponder?
Autoresponders can benefit you in a number of ways, depending on how you like to operate in business:

1. An autoresponder is ideal as an email marketing tool as it is capable of providing important information to potential customers and sending a followup email to them. For business people who need to regularly update their customers with new products or prices as they are released, an autoresponder is ideal. Read more

Home Based Businesses Keep Office Location Top Secret

According to a recent survey¹, more than half of Australian home based businesses choose to keep their clients in the dark about operating from home for fear of losing business. The survey by Serviced Offices International, a provider of serviced offices and virtual offices in the Sydney CBD, found 56 per cent of business owners believe prospective clients are hesitant to work with a business that is home based.

Managing Director of Serviced Offices International, Michelle Mills (pictured) said: “There are nearly one million people running home based businesses across Australia², but it is no surprise that such a large number keep their place of business a secret. Image is very important, especially for a home operator who has to convince customers that home life will not infringe on the quality of product and service provided.” Read more

Online Diva Hollie Turner on the run from creditors

Founder of OnlineDivas.com.au, Hollie Turner (pictured), is currently ducking creditors and a long line of dissatisfied members who are demanding their money back from the women’s networking site.

Australian Women Online has spoken to several women who say they have been let down, ripped off and in some cases, verbally abused by Hollie Turner, who is reportedly in the United States at present and can’t be reached. When reports surfaced last week that the TV program A Current Affair, were interested in doing a story on the Online Diva, Hollie Turner silenced her critics by promising to pay what she owed. Read more

Free Small Business Workshops in Canberra

Small business operators in Canberra are invited to learn from industry experts and plan for success by attending a number of free ANZ workshops this month from Wednesday 18 – Thursday 26 November 2009.

ANZ is offering the free workshops to Canberra small business operators to help them start, manage and grow their businesses and plan for more prosperous times ahead.

Held in partnership with Google™, Marketing Angels® and BusinessPlans.com.au, ANZ will hold five small business workshops for business operators covering topics such as: building brand awareness, generating and nurturing sales leads, generating online traffic, unlocking the power of email marketing and building a business plan to get small businesses heading in the right direction.

Canberra workshops will be held on the following dates:

• 18 November: Online Marketing (9am – 12pm) and Brand Awareness (1:30pm – 3:30pm)

• 19 November: Generating and Nurturing Sales Leads (9am – 11am) and Email Marketing (12:30 – 2:30pm)

• 26 November: Building a Business Plan: (8:30am – 12:30pm)

The five free workshops will be held over three days at Cliftons, Level 2, 10 Moore Street, Canberra.

Both ANZ customers and non customers can register for the workshop now via ANZ’s small business hub at www.thesbhub.com.au.

Women in Business: Elspeth Radford from Saltbush Clothing

To remain competitive and profitable, the Saltbush Clothing Company has had to change and evolve over the past twenty years. During the recession of the early 1990s, the company ceased production of children’s clothing to concentrate exclusively on women’s wear. When the company hit hard times about five years ago, Elspeth Radford recognised the need for help in key business areas such as book keeping, marketing, business strategy and accounting. But without the finances to employ a team of professionals, Elspeth assembled her own business advisory board, a group of professionals who volunteer their time and expertise to assist her.

Saltbush Clothing Company was established by Elspeth Radford (pictured) and her husband Graham, in early 1988. Unable to purchase hard wearing, smart moleskin trousers with co-ordinating casual shirts for her two young sons, Elspeth set about making the garments herself. Read more

Dynamic Young Business Woman – Zoe Warne

At the tender age of 28, Zoë Warne (pictured) has built a successful and dynamic career carving out her own special niche in the fast-paced world of online strategy and communications. She is co-founder of August – a Melbourne-based digital agency, and is a regular co-presenter with Jon Faine on 774 ABC Radio, where she is infecting the airwaves with her own unique brand of energy and enthusiasm.

A unique blend of youthful optimism and business savvy and pragmatism, Zoe Warne is an excellent role model for young women in the digital industry – an industry heavily dominated by males. When listed in 2009’ Who’s Who of Australian Women, she was one of only 3% of women aged 30 and under, who made the cut.
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Business Mums Conference

Running a small business is challenging and requires a lot of energy; recharging the owner and the business at the Business Mums Conference is a key to ensuring the long term success of those businesses.

“Our conference is about getting business parents out of the house/office and into an environment where they can learn from each other and professional speakers,” says Melissa Khalinsky, founder of the Business Mums Network. “And yes, Dads, tradespeople and non-members are most welcome!”

Keynote speaker at the event will be Di Padgett of You Are Special, talking about things such as making small changes for big results and developing effective working relationships. Read more

Australian businesses exposed to computer security breaches

Computer security breaches affected 14 percent of Australian businesses in 2007 at a cost of more than $600 million, according to the latest report from the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC).

The Australian Business Assessment of Computer User Security (ABACUS) report was released on Tuesday (Tuesday) to coincide with the Australian Federal Police’s High Tech Crime Conference in Sydney.

AIC Principal Criminologist Dr Russell Smith said the report was based on a national survey of 4,000 small, medium and large businesses conducted by the Institute to determine their experience of computer security incidents. Read more

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