LinkedIn and other forms of social media can be a useful way to grow your business, but how do you maximise the return on the time you’ll need to invest?

Understand what you’re engaged in

Getting together for coffee catch-ups and other offline activities is a natural extension of connecting with people via LinkedIn, but if you’re not careful it can also take you away from your core business, especially if you continually find yourself having your brain picked, but not actually picking up any sales!

After a while, it can be tempting to throw your hands in the air and say to yourself, “Why do people keep wasting my time? My knowledge hasn’t been acquired for free so why do people expect me to give my time for free? My brains aren’t free and nor is my mortgage, my phone or my time.”

Our XERO event on 20th April was a big "wave" hit Canberra market!

2 weeks after the event, we double our number of XERO clients! Adding to the total of 78,000 businesses using Xero in Australia.

For Accountant & Bookkeeper, XERO provide a better platform to connect & work with client.

For business owner, XERO give you a new way of learning accounting & more importantly saving cost.

I think it will never be a better time to switch to XERO since the new "cranky" MYOB version released 2 months ago....The new MYOB is too slow running on any

How much attention do you pay your competitors?

You SHOULD be aware of what Your Opposition is doing. Focus on your own business by all means, but also be aware of what Your Opposition offers, how they market themselves and how they interact with existing and potential clients.

Along the way, you might learn something, especially if they're gaining clients or their business is growing at a faster rate than yours.

After all, copyright and trademark laws stop you from using Your Opposition's brand and intellectual property, but they don't stop you from learning from them and adopting their good practices – or exceeding them with your own.

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Changes to the taxation treatment of the living-away-from-home allowance.

The government recently announced that, due to some perceived rorting of the existing tax treatment of the living-away-from-home allowance (LAFHA), changes will be made to:

· Remove the taxation of LAFHA from the FBT sphere into the income tax sphere. This means that the employee (rather than the employer) is liable to be taxed on any LAFHA received that is not exempt,

· Limit access to the tax exemption for temporary residents to those who maintain a residence for their own use in Australia, from which they are living away from for work purposes.

The social media is getting more and more important roles in business situation.

When I was checking a few kinds of social media and blogs, I found that some people get a lot of response / comments from readers with reasons. First, popular pages have some solid theme behind there. Second, popularity is not depending on the funniness of the pages. Some of website are serious, but has the interesting views & it is one of the very popular blogs. With thinking about those things, I think this article gets points how to get social media pages / get good responses from clients. Because the social media is currently one of the powerful marketing tools for all the business, people should maximise the benefits which we can get from social media. To do so, we need the attractive pages, and this is one of the good articles which we can refer to.

Creating compelling social media content