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Australian Labor Party - Small Business Policy.
Australian Liberal Party - Small Business Policy.
Australia’s top small businesses want tax relief. A survey of 100 of Australia’s top small and medium businesses has nominated company tax cuts as the most important action the federal government could take to better demonstrate its support of the sector.
Queensland Business Recognized as Australian Business of the Year. Sunshine Coast cased entrepreneur Sandy Forster has taken out the top honour in the 2010 Australian Home-bases Business Awards where she was awarded Australian Business of the Year at a ceremony held in Melbourne, Austrlian over the weekend.
Women Feel Stereotyped by Wealth Managers. According to the study, 55% of respondents said wealth managers must improve how they approach the advisory needs of women. Discontent was highest among women with $1 million to $5 million in assets under management.
20 Best-Branded Women On Twitter. This list of "best-branded" women on Twitter comprises travel experts, political bloggers, former models, social media gurus to happiness experts and TV producers. Despite their disparate backgrounds, all have one primary thing in common: They utilize social media to help promote their brand as well as a larger cause and always "give back" to the Twitter community.
Why Women Rock in Business! Lorrie Thomas, Web Marketing Lecturer ?n? practiced ?n women ?n? marketing, keynotes th? Women’s Economic Ventures (WEV) THINK BIG! Event
How Women Use the Web [REPORT]. More women than men across the world visit social networking sites and spend 30% more time per month using them.
Women still struggling to break into family business: Report. A new study of Australia’s family business sector has revealed women are still struggling to break into family-owned firms, with just 11% of family businesses owned by women and sons five times more likely to become CEO than daughters.
Are we entering The Age of Women? For the past century women’s progress has been cast as a struggle for equality with men. But what if equality isn’t the end point? What if modern postindustrial society is simply better suited to women?
Kelly Watson, Forbes Woman
It’s time to toot you horn!!
Want to make a woman feel uncomfortable? Just ask about her strengths.
It’s no stereotype: Studies show that women are notoriously bad at promoting themselves.
One study, from employee search firm ISR, attributes this trait to the high value women place on relationships and communities.
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Free information on new business grants for women. How do you access free information on new business grants for women?
Top Tips for Mums Thinking of Setting up Their Own Home Based Business: With the world job market in crisis and the cost of child care increasing to impossible levels, more and more mums around the world are coming up with their own solution to this problem.
What women do with their MBAs: More women are heading to business school than ever before. According to a report released last year by the US Department of Education, women received 44 per cent of all MBAs in 2007, a 75 per cent increase from a decade earlier.
Men make more loyal customers than women, researchers claim: While women tend to love shopping it is men who make the most loyal customers, new research has claimed.
Top 100 Websites For Women. No one can succeed on her own. Even the savviest women need help along the way. To that end, with the help of the ForbesWoman community, we’ve searched the Web for the most dynamic, inspiring and helpful websites for women. We’re delighted to present this list of ForbesWoman’s Top 100 Websites for Women.
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The working woman’s dilemma: Women are no longer left out in the cold when it comes to landing the top job. But if they take time out to have children will they ever reach the pinnacle again?
Women entrepreneurs reveal their favorite business books: If you’re looking for some summer reading, take advice from the experts. We asked 21 women entrepreneurs what business books were most influential to them.
Where are the women? I was speaking this week at the ADC Future Summit in Melbourne and there was some discussion on the fact that Australia is fast going backwards when it comes to women in leadership roles.
Hitting The Gender Mark: When it comes to marketing, author John Gray is right on the money – “Men are from Mars and Women Are from Venus.” There are significant differences in the way men and women process marketing messages. The better you understand those differences, the more effective your marketing – and return on investment – will be.
By SHARON G. HADARY, The Wall Street Journal. Picture by Andrea Levy
The phenomenal growth of women-owned businesses has made headlines for three decades—women consistently have been launching new enterprises at twice the rate of men, and their growth rates of employment and revenue have outpaced the economy.
So, it is dismaying to see that, despite all this progress, on average, women-owned business are still small compared with businesses owned by men. And while the gap has narrowed, as of 2008—the latest year for which numbers are available—the average revenues of majority women-owned businesses were still only 27% of the average of majority men-owned businesses.
There are those who will say that these numbers substantiate what they always knew: Women just don’t have what it takes to start and run a substantial, growing business. But I don’t buy that: More than a quarter of a million women in the U.S. own and lead businesses with annual revenue topping $1 million—and many of these businesses are multimillion-dollar enterprises. Clearly, many women have the vision, capacity and perseverance to build thriving companies.
So what’s holding back so many women business owners?
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When you are commencing in your own business, attending networking events can be a tad overwhelming. If you compare networking to other forms of new business development, it is less expensive and very effective.
You’ll need to find the right networking event for you and your business. It’s also important to remember that it does take time to reap the benefits of networking. Just like you can’t build a highly successful business or career overnight, the same patience and timing needs to be applied to networking.
For anyone new to networking the most important lesson to learn is that it’s not all about ‘you.’ The key to successful networking is showing interest in other people and what they are doing, genuine interest too. The best networkers have a real interest in people and it shows because they come across as authentic in their interactions.
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Wealth creation and freedom are no longer a part of the boys club. Many smart, savvy women are now creating financial freedom. Our banks, investment companies and financial planners specifically target these financially sophisticated females. It’s hard to believe that wealth creation for women was an unheard of industry 10 years ago!
When you are starting out, the road to financial freedom can seem daunting, if not a little overwhelming. But like all areas, the key to success is educating yourself, gaining confidence and taking action. I spoke to Dale Gillham, CEO of Wealth Within about this recently. He has some great advice on this topic so please check out his article below.
Looking to achieve financial independence early?
Financial independence is a goal many strive to achieve, yet only a few accomplish.
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