by Online Business Training Courses | Wednesday, July 2, 2014 | 06 Plan small Business Finances, Business Secrets, News, small business management, training courses
For many people who decide to go into business, they often don’t give much thought to their finances beyond just wanting to turn a profit. What they fail to realise is that the key to turning a profit is creating a financial plan. A financial plan acts as a sort of...
by Online Business Training Courses | Thursday, June 26, 2014 | 11 Selling your products or services, News, small business management
Everyone wants more customers — it’s every business owner’s main focus and it’s something we cover in some detail in the Selling Your Products and Services module of our Small Business Management Course. But at what point are too many sales or customers too much to...
by Online Business Training Courses | Thursday, June 12, 2014 | 02 Market the small Business (Business Planning), 10 Report on Financial Activities, 11 Selling your products or services, small business management
Our Small Business Management Course is designed to give you everything you need to create a well thought out and researched business plan that you can use as a blueprint to achieve your goals. One of the topics is ‘Business Planning’ — you could just as...
by Angela | Monday, June 9, 2014 | 11 Selling your products or services, News, small business management, small business marketing
At the Australian Small Business Centre we can offer you a digital business course, designed especially for those people who want to operate an online marketing business. But in this post, we look at what an online marketing assistant is and why a business would need...
by Online Business Training Courses | Sunday, May 25, 2014 | 07 Marketing Action Plan, 08 Undertake Marketing Activities, Business Secrets, News, small business management, small business marketing
In our previous post we talked to Alice Totonjian, the owner of Alice in Paperland, a Sydney-based paper-craft factory outlet, who shared her marketing success story with us, which highlighted that a key component to successfully marketing your business is selecting...
by Online Business Training Courses | Tuesday, May 20, 2014 | 02 Market the small Business (Business Planning), 07 Marketing Action Plan, Business Secrets, News, small business management, small business marketing
We help you develop a marketing action plan in our Small Business Management course, which includes determining the correct marketing medium for your business, whether that includes traditional media or new online marketing mediums. In our breakfast meet-up this week,...
by Online Business Training Courses | Thursday, May 15, 2014 | 02 Market the small Business (Business Planning), 05 Researching the Market, Business Secrets, News, small business management, small business marketing, training courses
In our last post we talked to the Australian Small Business Centre’s, Michelle Stone, who is currently studying our Small Business Management Course, about how she feared her competitors because she was worried she wouldn’t be able to get any clients. Finding that...
by Online Business Training Courses | Monday, May 12, 2014 | 02 Market the small Business (Business Planning), 05 Researching the Market, Business Secrets, News, small business management, training courses
Part of writing a business plan in our Small Business Management Course, is that you have to research the market, and by doing so, you come to learn a little bit about the other businesses in the marketplace that you’ll eventually come to compete with. Is Competition...
by Angela | Tuesday, August 6, 2013 | small business management
In business, as in most anything, it’s important we have confidence in what we do if we want to succeed. This is a topic we’ve covered numerous times in this blog as well as in our Small Business Management course. But having confidence in what you do is one thing —...
by Angela | Monday, July 29, 2013 | 12 Customer Service, small business management, training courses
Would your customers recommend your services to their friends? If you’re wondering why the seemingly lost art of customer service has suddenly made a comeback, it’s because businesses — large and small — have discovered what the business owners of yesteryear...
by Angela | Friday, July 26, 2013 | 14 Productivity, small business management, training courses
A while back, we talked about adding routine and structure to your business to ensure you’re being your most productive self, which is also something we cover in the Monitor and Manage Small Business Operations subject of our Small Business Management course....
by Online Business Training Courses | Wednesday, July 24, 2013 | 11 Selling your products or services, Business Tools, small business management, training courses, VoIP and Communications
We previously discussed why you should incorporate telemarketing into your marketing strategies in one of our May blogs, ‘Telemarketing: Why You Should Start Using the Telephone’, and it’s something we also discuss in our Small Business Management...
