by Online Business Training Courses | Monday, December 15, 2014 | 14 Productivity, Coworking, News, small business meetups
Places for Coworking For a lot of people, working from home is too distracting. There are those who find the call of the laundry basket too great; others who may have a partner or roommate that doesn’t think popping their head in and saying, “I’m not interrupting am...
by Angela | Thursday, December 11, 2014 | 14 Productivity, Coworking, News, small business management, small business meetups
Coworking in Your Local Library For most of my career, I’ve owned and operated my own businesses. For some of those years, I rented my own office space around Sydney, where I worked in solitude, until I opened a number of training centres across Sydney and worked with...
by Angela | Saturday, December 6, 2014 | 14 Productivity, News, small business management
Teleworking and Working at Home The job market is going through a fair bit of change at the moment. Companies are downsizing and restructuring, and full-time jobs are becoming scarce. But it’s not the doomsday horror some people would have you think it is. In fact,...
by Online Business Training Courses | Wednesday, October 15, 2014 | 02 Market the small Business (Business Planning), 06 Plan small Business Finances, 07 Marketing Action Plan, 14 Productivity, Business Secrets, News, small business management, training courses
In a couple of our recent posts, we’ve talked about… well, we’ve talked about my family, largely, but we’ve also talked about things like planning and strategising and setting goals for yourself, as well as having confidence in ourselves. Now I just want to add one...
by Online Business Training Courses | Thursday, October 9, 2014 | 06 Plan small Business Finances, 14 Productivity, Course topics, News, small business management, training courses
We mentioned in a previous post that in business you’re always managing and taking risks and that part of managing and minimising these risks is planning. Planning is fundamental part of operating a business, which is why many of the subjects in our Small Business...
by Online Business Training Courses | Thursday, October 2, 2014 | 03 Legal & Risk Management, 04 Protect & Use Intangible Assets, 14 Productivity, News, small business management, training courses
When you’re starting a new business, it’s important that you have a good grasp of the law to ensure you don’t find yourself in hot water later on down the track. We cover general and intellectual property law in our Small Business Management course, and we’ve also...
by Online Business Training Courses | Thursday, September 25, 2014 | 02 Market the small Business (Business Planning), 06 Plan small Business Finances, 07 Marketing Action Plan, 14 Productivity, Business Secrets, News, small business management, training courses
A little while ago, we published a post about goal setting, where we suggested that you start setting some short-term business goals that will help deliver your long-term business goals. The majority of people are familiar with long-term goal setting; it’s a...
by Online Business Training Courses | Monday, September 22, 2014 | 04 Protect & Use Intangible Assets, Business Secrets, Business Tools, News, small business management
In a previous post we talked about why and how you would go about protecting your business name, which we also cover in a lot more detail in the Intellectual Property and General Law module of our Small Business Management and Start-Up course. In this post, we thought...
by Online Business Training Courses | Thursday, September 18, 2014 | 04 Protect & Use Intangible Assets, Business Secrets, Business Tools, News, small business management
In our Small Business Management and Start-Up Course, we feature a module about protecting your intangible assets, which relates to your intellectual property rights, such as your right to use your business name. Few people are aware of when they need to register...
by Online Business Training Courses | Monday, September 15, 2014 | 03 Legal & Risk Management, Business Secrets, Business Tools, News, small business management, training courses
In the module of our Small Business Management and Start-Up course that covers establishing legal risk and management, we talk about choosing the right business structure for your business. Depending on your circumstances – and your business idea, of course – you may...
by Online Business Training Courses | Thursday, September 11, 2014 | 02 Market the small Business (Business Planning), 06 Plan small Business Finances, 07 Marketing Action Plan, 14 Productivity, Business Secrets, Business Tools, News, small business management, small business marketing
In a previous post we talked about how important it is to plan and keep taking risks in business. A big part of planning is goal setting; in fact, the two are so intimately linked, it’s impossible to really do one without the other. In our Small Business Management...
by Online Business Training Courses | Monday, September 8, 2014 | 02 Market the small Business (Business Planning), 06 Plan small Business Finances, 14 Productivity, News, small business management, small business marketing
We often talk about how important it is for businesses to make plans – marketing plans, financial plans, business plans; they’re all subjects we cover in our Small Business Management and Start-Up Course. The reason we suggest all this planning is that it helps you to...
