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Sales management success is not guesswork
Rob Macpherson | May 1, 2019Success in sales doesn’t just happen – it occurs as the result of adherence to the sales management process that unfortunately is an underappreciated discipline and career calling.
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Productive Ageing: Leveraging the value of an age-diverse workforce for SMEs
Catherine Fritz-Kalish | May 1, 2019Institute for active policy, Global Access Partners (GAP), in association with the NSW Department of Family and Community Services and the GAP Standing Committee on Productive Ageing, are convening a strategic roundtable for SMEs on 6 June, 2019.
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Investors urged to put a greater focus on intangibles when investing
First 5000 | May 1, 2019Investors traditionally seek to understand a companies’ financial results, earnings, business metrics and other figures before investing. However, over the past half-century, intangible factors, such as corporate culture, are a far more important factor measuring and driving a company’s market value.
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ASBFEO report finds ATO early debt recovery action excessive
First 5000 | April 30, 2019In a report on early debt recovery action by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), the Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman found garnishee notices were issued in a sizeable number of cases where tax disputes were before Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT).
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5 ways to make sure your video content gets seen
Michael Langdon | April 30, 2019One of the biggest mistakes I see people make when producing video content is thinking that the job is done once the video is uploaded to their website.
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What HR looks like in an Aboriginal Community Council
Jasmine Crittenden | April 30, 2019What should HR look like in an Aboriginal Community Council? George Brown returned home and found out.
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Most Trusted Brands recognised
First 5000 | April 29, 2019Dettol is Australia’s most trusted brand, according to the 20th annual Trusted Brands Survey.
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Study reveals winning tweet formula used by celebrities
First 5000 | April 29, 2019Celebrity tweets that tell fans a story are more likely to be shared than facts, introspection or angry outbursts, new study reveals.
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Industry strengthens call for compulsory registration of engineers
First 5000 | April 29, 2019Engineers Australia has re-stated the case for compulsory registration in a submission to the Opposition, ahead of the possibility of Victoria’s Parliament considering the Professional Engineers Registration Bill 2019 this week.
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5 trends that will mark the Australian manufacturing industry in 2019
Carolin Petterson | April 26, 2019In spite of the implementation of disruptive technologies and the rise of competing industries, the Australian manufacturing sector is expanding at the fastest pace in the last 15 years
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Cybercrime is increasingly big business in Australia
Sonia Hickey | April 26, 2019As cybercriminals become more devious in their attempts to navigate our increasingly complex digital world, do Australian cybercrime laws need a review?
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How to manage and overcome bad financial decisions
Carolin Petterson | April 26, 2019As flawed creatures, every now and then, we are bound to make bad decisions. They can be big and impact our whole life or they can be small and only serve as a slight annoyance.
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Australia’s SME business owners still undecided on election
First 5000 | April 24, 2019Over the next three weeks all parties have significant work to do to convince Australia’s small and medium business owners that their policies are best to support small businesses.
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Labor to offer better protections for casual workers
Bill Shorten | April 24, 2019A Shorten Labor Government will get historically low wages moving again by acting on job security if it is elected in May.
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Liberal Party to establish to small and family business growth fund
Scott Morrison | April 24, 2019The Morrison Government will establish a $100 million Australian Business Growth Fund to help small and family businesses to grow into bigger and better businesses and create more jobs.