How to Deal with a Business Disaster While Staying in Control Feb 26, 2016

When something goes horribly wrong in your business, you need to maintain control and sort out the problem. It’s all about keeping your cool and making sure that you fix the problem as soon as you can. It’s not easy, but it can be done. Here’s how to deal with a disaster when it...

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Take Control Of Your Business In 4 Easy Step Feb 21, 2016

The key to running a successful business is to gain a tighter grip on the operation.

If you have better control of what’s happening within your business,  you’ll have a far greater chance of steering it in the right direction.

There are various elements that contribute to the...

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Business Finance Basics Feb 18, 2016

If you’re starting a business, you need to know the basics about the financial side of things.

Money Coming In

Every business should have a consistent flow of cash coming into the business. This is primarily in the form of the money you make from selling your products/services. When people...

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How to Start a Finance Blog Feb 16, 2016

Starting a blog sounds like a simple task at first. Get a domain, build your website, and create content regularly. Easy, right? Sure, but creating a successful blog takes so much more than that. You have to be relevant in every possible aspect, and your content has to be both engaging and...

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4 Essential Areas of Training for all Employees Feb 03, 2016

Perhaps you’ve started looking around your offices and noticed that your employees don’t possess a skillset as you would like. If so, then today is the day to start training them! There are so many useful business tools out there that are pivotal for your employees to learn.

Here are...

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Safety in the Office Jan 28, 2016

Office health and safety should be one of the most important issues business owners should be thinking about. At the very least, you should be taking health & safety levels in your office seriously, doing everything you can to keep them high. It’s easy for new business owners...

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Facebook Audience Optimisation for Facebook Pages Jan 25, 2016

Am I the only person who is REALLY excited about this new feature Facebook has just added to their Facebook Pages? Surely not!

Facebook Pages have just had the new Facebook Audience Optimization featured added!!

What is Audience Optimization?

As defined in the Facebook media blog

“Is...

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A Virtual Assistant Costs How Much? Jan 21, 2016

“OH, A VA costs how much?”

“Oh, I only have basic tasks”

“Oh, don’t want to pay more then $20 an hour”

As a Small Business Development Coach and Specialised Virtual Assistant (didn’t want to get put in the box that I was worth less then $20 because...

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Looking for Bridging job VA or are you really looking for this type of VA? Jan 05, 2016

I often find advertisements for virtual assistants (VA) where one of the conditions is it must be a bridging job or the actual person offering the VA services offers them as their bridging job.

What is a bridging job?

The term Bridging Job is use to describe a position (job) that you have...

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Top 5 Reasons To Outsource Jan 03, 2016

Are you struggling to get everything done in your business?

Or, would you like to be in a much stronger position at the end of next year than you are this year?

If so, then why not consider outsourcing? It’s the process of delegating tasks to a third party, and it brings a lot of benefits.

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Adult Play Dough: Will be the next adult craze Dec 25, 2015

Move over adult colouring books!

Adult Play Dough is the next big adult craze!

Stress relief in the palm of your hand.

I was really lucky to receive a parcel from the amazing Alex from Perth Playdo, with samples of this new craze!

I personally find colouring in very stressful and a time...

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5 Tips to Increase Facebook Reach Without Paying For It Dec 16, 2015

Facebook Reach seems to be decreasing at a rapid rate for people who own or manage Facebook Pages….. If you ask most Facebook Page owners, however not everyone is experiencing the same decrease in reach.

Before we get started lets just clarify a few words that I often seen being misused...

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