Insights
Business Advice: Are your competitors friend or foe?
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Article by Jane Tweedy, Business Advisor, Western Sydney Business Centre How well do you know your industry competitors or peers? Have you looked into connecting with your industry? It may…
Business Advice: Tips to feel like you’re good enough
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Article by Jane Tweedy, Business Advisor, Western Sydney Business Centre Have you ever felt you’re not good enough? What’s the point in writing a blog, because who’s going to read…
Business Advice: Are you utilising Social Media in a positive way?
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Article by Emma Gosper, Business Advisor, Western Sydney Business Centre Over the last two years of contributing to this business column with all the benefits social media can bring to your…
Business Advice: Surviving School Holidays While Running a Small Business
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Article by Jane Tweedy, Business Advisor, Western Sydney Business Centre Its school holidays, and already I’m seeing posts of people crying out about the pain of juggling their small business…
Business Advice: Self-care tips for small business owners
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Article by Jane Tweedy, Business Advisor, Western Sydney Business Centre Like many small business owners, I have huge demands on my time – working part-time, setting up two businesses while…
Business Advice: Instagram gives your customers a new way to shop
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Article by Emma Gosper, Business Advisor, Western Sydney Business Centre Last week Instagram announced its newest feature which allows customers to shop directly from Instagram business pages. This will come…
Business Advice: 5 tips on how to get your pricing right
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Article by Jane Tweedy, Business Advisor, Western Sydney Business Centre As advisors we regularly see businesses who have their pricing way off the mark, usually too low. Although most common with…
Business Advice – Industry Associations – helping you stay informed
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Article by Jane Tweedy, Business Advisor, Western Sydney Business Centre Small business owners often fear they will be caught out by regulation changes that they didn’t know about. How do you…
Business Advice: How to Work from Home Alone
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Article by Jane Tweedy, Business Advisor, Western Sydney Business Centre Many small business owners are former employees for a company, where they went to work and had a large team…
Business Advice: Determining your business vision – what is your end game?
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Article by Jane Tweedy, Business Advisor, Western Sydney Business Centre The famous Stephen Covey talked about always starting with the end in mind. This is important for a number of…
Business Advice: Recent Facebook changes – what it means for you
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Article by Emma Gosper, Business Advisor, Western Sydney Business Centre – January 2018 This month Facebook announced another change to their platform, which predominantly effects users who use Facebook for business…
Business Advice: Apps that will help you manage your social media accounts
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Article by Emma Gosper, Business Advisor, Western Sydney Business Centre With millions of apps available for instant download on the app store to help you manage your business in a more…
Business Advice: Innovating and implementing changes in your business
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Article by Jane Tweedy, Business Advisor, Western Sydney Business Centre Over recent weeks I attended the Annual Business Connect Advisor Conference (with keynotes from Google, Sendle and Michael McQueen), a one…
Business Advice: Photos – avoid breaching copyright and make the most of images
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Article by Jane Tweedy, Business Advisor, Western Sydney Business Centre Think of the last image that triggered an emotion – one that made you laugh out loud, be inspired or…
Business Advice: How to be more productive and not just busy!
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Article by Jane Tweedy, Business Advisor, Western Sydney Business Centre Finally people are back from holiday, the kids are back at school, and the real work can begin for 2018!…
Business Advice: Setting a business mission and vision are vitally important!
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Article by Jane Tweedy, Business Advisor, Western Sydney Business Centre Being a business owner you’ve probably heard of mission and vision statements – especially if you watched the now 21 year…
Business Advice: Have you failed your New Year’s resolutions yet?
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Article by Jane Tweedy, Business Advisor, Western Sydney Business Centre Happy New Year! Have you bounded into 2018 full of hope and plans to not repeat the resolutions that failed…
Business Advice: Reflecting on the year that was – what did you achieve?
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Article by Jane Tweedy, Business Advisor, Western Sydney Business Centre As the year draws to a close, many of us are feeling rather exhausted and in need of a break!…
Business Advice: Promoting your business using prizes
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Article by Jane Tweedy, Business Advisor, Western Sydney Business Centre The original 4 P’s of marketing: product/service, promotion, place, pricing are now joined by the 5th yet probably most important…
Business Advice: How should we show gratitude to our clients and employees?
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Article by Jane Tweedy, Business Advisor, Western Sydney Business Centre Coming up to Christmas and the holiday season, our thoughts may be turning to the gifts we need to buy for…
Business Advice: Coping with change – it’s as certain as death and taxes!
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Article by Jane Tweedy, Business Advisor, Western Sydney Business Centre The old saying goes: ‘the only things certain in life are death and taxes’ – pretty morbid I know! However,…