by Online Business Training Courses | Sunday, August 18, 2013 | 08 Undertake Marketing Activities
In our Small Business Management course we talk a great deal about marketing and teach you how to put together a Marketing Plan plus successfully market your business. We’ve also talked about the different ways you can market your business — including the use of...
by Angela | Friday, August 16, 2013 | 14 Productivity
We talked last time about the benefits of keeping to-do lists and how to-do lists should not be static; how they should be used in conjunction with your work to help you achieve your goals. With this in mind, we have reviewed some of the best to-do apps that will help...
by Angela | Thursday, August 15, 2013 | 14 Productivity
As a business owner you generally have a million things to do and the majority of those million things need to be done now, immediately, ASAP! This can be overwhelming, which is why we cover things like setting structure and routine in our Small Business Management...
by Angela | Tuesday, August 13, 2013 | 07 Marketing Action Plan, 14 Networking & Referrals, 14 Productivity
When you start a business you need to consider marketing and the strategies you will use to get your name out there. In our Small Business Management course and coaching we help you develop a marketing plan, but there are other ways you can market your business and...
by Angela | Friday, August 9, 2013 | 11 Selling your products or services, 12 Customer Service, Become a Virtual Assistant, Customer Service Training Course, Online Business, Sales Training Courses Online, training courses
Simply communicating with your customers to manage expectations can help you beat the competition. It’s maybe the last thing you think about when you’re starting a business, but as a newbie, it’s good customer service that will give you an edge over the...
by Online Business Training Courses | Friday, August 2, 2013 | 11 Selling your products or services
Conducting market research is vital for any small business; you need to understand what’s happening in your industry in order to sell your products and services effectively — something we cover in our Small Business Management course. But how well do you really know...
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...
by Online Business Training Courses | Tuesday, July 23, 2013 | 03 Legal & Risk Management
Trust Structures In our four-part series on the four most common business structures used in Australia we’ve covered sole traders, partnerships and companies, and now in our final post for the series, we cover trusts. In our Small Business Management...
by Online Business Training Courses | Wednesday, July 17, 2013 | 03 Legal & Risk Management
We’ve previously discussed sole traders and partnerships in our four part series on the most commonly used business structures in Australia — 1) sole trader, 2) partnerships, companies and 3) trusts— to help you decide what business structure is right for you....
by Online Business Training Courses | Monday, July 15, 2013 | 03 Legal & Risk Management, small business management, training courses
Business Partnership Structure This is Part Two in our four-part series about the four most commonly used business structures in Australia — 1) sole trader, 2) partnerships, 3) companies and 4) discretionary rusts — to help you decide what...