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Introduction - Subscribe

Introduction

A perpetual flux is how it feels right now for many in business. What happens at the macro level tends to trickle down to affect us all in the day-to-day running of our businesses.
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Economic update - Subscribe

Economic update

Running Time: 10:17

There’s some light at the end of the economic tunnel, but not before we have to endure some more pain. That’s according to our regular economics commentator Professor Neville Norman.
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Professor Neville Norman, Melbourne University

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The Jobs & Skills Summit – an SME perspective - Subscribe

The Jobs & Skills Summit – an SME perspective

Running Time: 8:35

The federal government’s Jobs and Skills Summit brought Australians together to work constructively on the challenges and opportunities facing the Australian labour market and economy.
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Alexi Boyd, COSBOA

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Make your practice work for you - Subscribe

Make your practice work for you

Running Time: 8:13

Ditch your partners, think really big, and don’t charge by the hour. Those are just some of the out-of-the-box ways of thinking consultant Rob Nixon encourages all practice-owners to make.
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Rob Nixon

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Lessons from a billion-dollar business - Subscribe

Lessons from a billion-dollar business

Running Time: 9:49

Surely, there must be something to learn from someone who started a company from scratch and sold it 15 years later for a value of more than $1 billion.
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David Shein

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Building your brand value on social media - Subscribe

Building your brand value on social media

Running Time: 10:50

Building brand value, rather than brand awareness, and understanding algorithm requirements, is the secret to success on social media. So says George Hawwa, Growth Director of social media marketing agency, Attention Experts.
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George Hawwa, Attention Experts

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We'll meet again - Subscribe

We'll meet again

Running Time: 7:35

One of the many things we lost due to COVID was our networking skills. We’ve been cooped up for so long, we’ve forgotten how it is to be human again.
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Alan Manly

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How captivating are you? - Subscribe

How captivating are you?

Running Time: 10:29

There’s nothing quite like the look and performance of a peacock. In her book, ‘How to persuade’, Michelle Bowden uses the Captivating Peacock as one of her four archetypes of persuasion.
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Michelle Bowden

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Hiring people who like people - Subscribe

Hiring people who like people

Running Time: 10:19

No matter how wonderful your product or service is, consumers will remember your brand from good, bad or ugly customer experiences. So, it’s imperative you have people-loving people on the frontline.
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Roy Osing

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Closing comments/ quote of the month - Subscribe

Closing comments/ quote of the month

Our quote of the month is from Soichiro Honda, founder of Japanese automobile and motorcycle giant, Honda Motor Company, who said...
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