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Website architecture workshop: real world examples
By Sue Blatchford on the 13th November 2007Learn how to plan a great website for your business by examining what the experts do. Examples of different types of navigation structures: Left NavigationList of ContentsHorizontal Top BarTabsMulti-level tree navigationButtons with drop down revealsBreadcrumb TrailIntermediate: Ecommerce website...
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How to attract customers to your website
By Sue Blatchford on the 29th January 2008Are you ready to promote your products or services online? Before you pay for anything, spend time learning about your options from online marketing and web architecture expert Sue Blatchford. There's a common misconception about websites that if you build it they will come! But the truth is...
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Google vs Microsoft vs Yahoo!
13th November 2007Google vs Microsoft vs Yahoo! The $billion brawl for your business. We put the big three companies in the search space head-to-head, and reveal the best tactics for using search and related services to your advantage. As Google & Yahoo! tighten their grip on business services, can Microsoft...
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Will e-commerce really make you money?
By Kate Hennessy on the 20th December 2007Cashed-up global consumers are your potential new market with e-commerce done right. The internet is the great equaliser. No matter how big or small your business is, a successful e-commerce strategy and well-planned website can propel you onto the big guys’ playing field. The trick? Making...
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Easy Rider: Deus Ex Machina, custom motorcycles, Sydney
By Stuart Ridley on the 13th November 2007Mambo founder Dare Jennings joined forces with Action Motorcycles’ Rod Hunwick to create DeusexMachina. They ditched corporate cloning, celebrated individuality, and paid homage to ‘the god in the machine’. Why Deus ex Machina? What is it about the spirit or deity in the machine...
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What price love? Elite Introductions Trudy Gilbert
By Naomi Hulbert on the 15th April 2008Trudy Gilbert’s goal was to become a millionaire before she turned 35, and she made it with time to spare. How? By rescuing the art of matchmaking from the clutches of kitsch game shows and unsavoury personal ads. Naomi Hulbert flirts with the business of romance. Trudy Gilbert sits across...
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How to plan a better website
By Sue Blatchford on the 13th November 2007Does your business need a new website, like, now? Spend 5 minutes learning the important steps of planning a better website with information architecture expert Sue Blatchford. Because failing to plan could equal planning to fail! ####### Jargon translator: What is website architecture? Website...
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Kickstart workshop for a start up kids wear label: kinderclobber
13th November 2007kinderclobber.com.au, an online children’s accessories start-up, is the brainchild of Dimity Mitsis and Kate Askew. They’ve registered the domain name, but they need to know where to go from here. Nett drew from its panel of expert contributors to answer their burning questions THE...
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Where's our broadband, Minister?
By MARGUERITE MCKINNON on the 15th April 2008Interview with Senator Stephen Conroy Minister for Communications The irony is beautiful. After an age of being on hold to speak with Senator Stephen Conroy, he finally answers his mobile, car indicator ticking in the background. He’s somewhere in the country, experiencing first-hand the...
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IGGY GOES POP: Iggy & Lou Lou: one artist, one website, one big success
By NAOMI HULBERT on the 23rd January 2008An antique childhood gift inspired Irene Grishin-Selzer to create jewellery label Iggy & Lou Lou. Now the internet is turning her cottage industry into a global brand. As a child, Melbourne-based sculptor Irene was given two porcelain figurines by a family friend, which she named Iggy and Lou...
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Are tradies better at mobile business than suits?
By Kate Hennessy on the 20th December 2007Armed with the latest mobile devices and fast broadband access, Australian tradies are proving more reliable and more responsive than ever. In fact, you might say they’re better at the ‘road warrior’ game than the suits. When most people think of what a business ‘road...
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MySpace, my business
By Naomi Hulbert on the 18th February 2008During the high-powered 80s, cut-throat investment-banker types loved to bandy about the phrase “it’s not personal, it’s business”. But thanks to the recent explosion of social-media networking and community websites, business has become very personal indeed. What’s the...
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Small business lifecycle: reaping the rewards
By Stephen Craft, Executive Manager in Commonwealth Bank Local Business Banking on the 15th April 2008Manage your business lifecycle from start up to sell out with advice from your local business bank. You thought long and hard before starting your business. But have you thought about what you’ll do when it’s time to leave it behind? Stephen Craft, an executive manager with Commonwealth...
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Life Hero: Jack Heath, Inspire Foundation
By Louise Kelly on the 13th November 2007Philanthropist, entreprenuer and ex-political advisor Jack Heath takes us on his remarkable journey towards fulfillment in life and work. When the Inspire Foundation kicked off, it came out of my experience of grief over my cousin who’d killed himself in pretty horrific circumstances, so it...
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Start up: Sydney courier Mark Passey, Motion Messengers
By NAOMI HULBERT on the 15th April 2008Nett helps Sydney courier Mark Passey of Motion Messengers grow his 18 month old business.Mark has steadily grown his Sydney courier business all by himself, now he wants to take the next step: providing a premium service targeting high-end corporate clients. 1: Know your points of difference Naomi:...






