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Starting a business
Surviving the credit crunch with debtor finance
A major effect of the credit crunch is that businesses can no longer rely on banks for financing to help smooth out cash flow shortages. They are also finding that their customers are taking longer to pay for goods and services.
Small firms 'see opportunity in crisis'
The heads of Australia's up-and-coming companies see the economic crisis as an opportunity to further their market growth, research shows.
When you need the A-Team
Your business plan needs the right people behind it to see it through. And in straitened times, a management team with the right experience is gold.

 
At SEEK Learning, we understand the importance of matching the skills of your staff to the needs and growth of your business. Investing in the professional development of your employees will lead to improved staff effectiveness.

Running a business
Engage your staff
In troubled times, business must do more with less. There may be less people in your business, less customers, less capital, less cash…. But one thing you do want less of is people “chucking a sickie”.
What the new workplace law changes mean for you
Yesterday the Federal Government announced the new workplace relations laws including collective bargaining, unfair dismissal and arbitration.
The Christmas crunch
I was rushing to a meeting yesterday in the Sydney CBD — and I was waiting at the pedestrian lights to cross the road. Three people in suits and in their mid 30s were having an animated conversation — they had just left the building on our right.


People in business
Skills shortage holding back companies
The shortage of skills has been listed as the main factor holding back Australia's private companies in their effort to be internationally competitive.
Australian clothing entrepreneur launches ranges with Janet Jackson and Brett Lee
Clothing entrepreneur Bruno Schiavi, whose fortune is valued at about $19 million, has launched a new range of lingerie with American pop princess Janet Jackson.
Fashionably wealthy
A unique model for supply has snared fashion label Zara accolades in the global fashion stakes. Here's how founder Amancio Ortega stitched up the number one spot.

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