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Ben Jones, Hire a Hubby Ringwood

Ben Jones, Hire a Hubby Ringwood

Ben Jones provides property maintenance services within Ringwood, Ringwood North and Warranwood. Read more

Donna Garrett-Young, Home Building Made Easy

Donna Garrett-Young, Home Building Made Easy

Donna Garrett-Young has been a passionate renovator and builder for nearly 20 years, and is the author of the book 'Home Building Made Easy - Five ... Read more

Simon Paxton

Simon Paxton

Simon Paxton helps people make their events exciting and memorable with performances of the mysteries of the mind. Read more

Paula Durrant, Durrant’s Accounting Services Pty Ltd

Paula Durrant, Durrant’s Accounting Services Pty Ltd

Paula Durrant is a tax accountant for small to medium businesses, and high income individuals. Read more

Hazel Theocharous, Assisting U Virtually

Hazel Theocharous, Assisting U Virtually

Hazel Theocharous is a virtual assistant who listens to her clients and then assesses their admin, assists with their admin and answers their admin... Read more

Emma Wilson, Upclose & Virtual

Emma Wilson, Upclose & Virtual

Upclose & Virtual provides professional, cost effective, secretarial services for businesses and individuals throughout Australia to reduce the bur... Read more

Daniel Abela, Graphic & Web

Daniel Abela, Graphic & Web

Daniel Abela is a graphic and web designer offering digital and print solutions to clients of all sizes right around Australia. Read more

Rachel Abdy, Pace Administration

Rachel Abdy, Pace Administration

Pace Administration offers administrative services to micro and self-employed businesses in Adelaide specialising in services for self-employed psy... Read more

Ann Nixon, Sydney Psych.

Ann Nixon, Sydney Psych.

Ann Nixon provides broad counselling and psychotherapy services to clients in the inner city and eastern suburbs of Sydney. Read more

Roland Hanekroot, New Perspectives Small Business Bootcamp

Roland Hanekroot, New Perspectives Small Business Bootcamp

Roland Hanekroot is a small business coach in Sydney who works with small business owners who want to make a big shift in their business and turn i... Read more

Jan Freitag, Proxim Group

Jan Freitag, Proxim Group

Combining both business coaching and business consulting services, the Proxim Group offers a fully comprehensive approach to helping small business... Read more

Victoria Judge, Expert Agency

Victoria Judge, Expert Agency

Victoria Judge helps people build a successful business around their expertise, through a combination of one-on-one workshops and outsourced servic... Read more

Karen Churchill, The Churchill Consultancy

Karen Churchill, The Churchill Consultancy

Karen Churchill helps her clients achieve their goals by communicating as well as possible with the people who matter to them. This can be done by ... Read more

Stewart Marshall, Uncomplicating IT

Stewart Marshall, Uncomplicating IT

Uncomplicating IT provides impartial, independent IT advice in plain English. We help those who don't know that much about IT bridge the technology... Read more

Tim Pacheco, Function5 Web Design

Tim Pacheco, Function5 Web Design

Function5 Web Design creates and manages an online presence for small businesses, from basic information websites through to feature rich shopping ... Read more

Nick Humphries, Akitso Web Design

Nick Humphries, Akitso Web Design

Akitso Web Design is a web design company that sells fully-featured professional websites to small businesses. They make getting a website for your... Read more

Uri Maimon, Nominal Accounting

Uri Maimon, Nominal Accounting

Nominal Accounting Software develops, sell and supports a micro business management software. Read more

Maria Lesar, H.A.P.S. Business Solutions

Maria Lesar, H.A.P.S. Business Solutions

Maria is an experienced bookkeeper organising small businesses. She assists clients with setting up their new business ensuring they have applied ... Read more

Felicity Van Rysbergen, Well Versed Copywriting

Felicity Van Rysbergen, Well Versed Copywriting

Well Versed Copywriting specialises in creating corporate web content, information architecture and analysis, and marketing documentation for a bro... Read more

Sean Sherlock, SAmedia Website Solutions

Sean Sherlock, SAmedia Website Solutions

From small start-ups to seasoned soloists, SAmedia Website Solutions designs websites that enhance online position and improve new leads and recurr... Read more

Ben Jones, Hire a Hubby Ringwood
Donna Garrett-Young, Home Building Made Easy
Simon Paxton
Paula Durrant, Durrant’s Accounting Services Pty Ltd
Hazel Theocharous, Assisting U Virtually
Emma Wilson, Upclose & Virtual
Daniel Abela, Graphic & Web
Rachel Abdy, Pace Administration
Ann Nixon, Sydney Psych.
Roland Hanekroot, New Perspectives Small Business Bootcamp
Jan Freitag, Proxim Group
Victoria Judge, Expert Agency
Karen Churchill, The Churchill Consultancy
Stewart Marshall, Uncomplicating IT
Tim Pacheco, Function5 Web Design
Nick Humphries, Akitso Web Design
Uri Maimon, Nominal Accounting
Maria Lesar, H.A.P.S. Business Solutions
Felicity Van Rysbergen, Well Versed Copywriting
Sean Sherlock, SAmedia Website Solutions
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Work smart | Project management

Project management skills, finding the best online tools and project management software and understanding why projects fail are all essential knowledge for the micro business owner.

To manage projects effectively, it’s key to undertake a business process review and be prepared to make changes in business workflow.

If you ever thought processes and project management were dull topics, this section should change your thinking.


Business process review: Turning it outside-in

21 Jan 10 | Craig Reid

Want to learn from companies like Apple and Google, who’ve been going from strength to strength despite the GFC? Do a business process review and start turning your business outside-in! Read more

Comments: 5

The value of project post mortems

01 Sep 09 | Greg Pritchard

Where did things go wrong? Or right? Project post mortems are great, but only if they’re done right. Here’s how to carry out a review once the dust settles on your project. Read more

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Project planning: 8 ways to kill your project

28 Jun 09 | Greg Pritchard

There are actions I’ve seen which are guaranteed to kill your project’s chance of success. Here are eight ways projects get sabotaged, and project planning tips to prevent them. Read more

Comments: 4

Project management processes: A simple guide

22 Jun 08 | Greg Pritchard

If you get flustered at the thought of managing a project, these simple tips will help. I've seen the largest projects start with the project managment processes below, and one to five person projects run with nothing more! Read more

Comments: 2

Project management: Why projects fail

06 Jan 08 | Zern Liew

As soloists, our work is often project-based. Have you ever wondered why some projects go smoothly and others seem plagued with problems? Here are five reasons why projects can fail and how with good project management these problems can be avoided. Read more

Comments: 15

 

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