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We are a country curiously obsessed with the Australian dollar (we are currently trading at 0.77 US). Put aside the news headlines dominated by the recent Queensland Election and the massive sporting events over the past weekend and, you’ll  see articles all displaying the well-known fact that the Australian dollar is falling and, likely to
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Some say it adds to company culture. Others say it’s a distraction and waste of time and resources. What we can all agree on is that internal communications is a vital way of distributing vital information between departments within a business. How effectively and efficiently this is done though can often come down to the
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Censorship or your privacy? While the rest of the world, particularly the West, have concrete ideas as to which side of the fence they stand on; the right to privacy vs. the right to freedom of speech, Australia seems to still very much be sitting on the fence. Is a consensus needed, and if so,
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Small Business Growth Slows Due to Lack of Online Presence Earlier in November this year, I wrote a blog titled, ‘Cementing Your Business in the Digital World’, and I discussed that given today’s advancements in technology and online communication, every single Australian SME should be online, whether your business is B2B or B2C, or if
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David Hefter, General Manager at SponsoredLinX, delves into the issue of advertising over the Christmas and New Year holiday break and how Australian SMEs should be approaching this time of year.

It’s been a big month for Australian politics. With the China-Australia Fair Trade Agreement (chAFTA) closed for formal negotiations and with the recent G20 Summit in Brisbane; the eyes of the world have been fixed on Australia. Australian politics have been rushing to media channels to assure SMEs of the benefits such events will bring
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On 29 August 2014 Switzerland based John Muller (Google Webmaster Trends Analyst) announced the end of Google Authorship. Since then all photos and references to Google+ profiles have been completely dropped from Google Search listings. When explaining the reason for this change John says that the decision was founded on feedback from webmasters, authors and users who said that the platform was becoming too much of a distraction when finding search results.

Weekly Round Up: This Week in Australian Business

The latest Australian results for digital advertising expenditure are in, and all roads point to mobile. In the second quarter of 2014, digital advertising saw a 29% growth over the previous year – that’s a whopping extra $72 million, to take the Q2 total to $320 million. How much of this is spent on mobile-targeted advertising?

Weekly Round Up: This Week in Australian Business