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4 tips for improving your website rankings

Improve your website rankings on search engines by: 1) utilising SEOs, 2) writing and editing original and different web pages and articles, 3) achieving more 'hits' and longer visits, and 4) keepi...

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On Time Typing finalist in 2017 Business Awards

On Time Typing has been selected as a finalist in the 2017 Federation Business School Gippsland Business Awards. The next stage of the judging process involves On Time Typing demonstrating to th...

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GST-registered businesses: book-keeping and BAS tips

Are you a GST-registered freelancer, contractor or sole trader business? If so, these tips about book-keeping, BASs and your responsibilities in regard to the Australian Tax Office (ATO) may be he...

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Could you run your business from home?

Many freelancers and small business owners/operators manage their businesses from  home. Businesses that can be run from home Your business can be managed and operated from home if: You ar...

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Tips for tax return time: freelancers, sole trader businesses

Are you a freelancer, contractor or sole trader business? Do you start to stress as the calendar creeps closer and closer to tax time? I am what they call 'numerically-challenged'. It was hard t...

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What office equipment does a freelancer need?

Every freelancer or sole trader contractor needs 1) a suitable office, 2) suitable office equipment, and 3) the equipment (including software) they need for their particular business. Home-based o...

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Thank you, Bendigo community

Thank you, Bendigo, for a brilliant weekend The Easter Fair - carnivals in the street and in Rosalind Park including free activities for kids - and the Easter Procession were just a few of the del...

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How I became a scribe

How I became a scribe was a long and winding road with a bumpy start in high school... The early days (before computers) It was the early eighties. In Year 10 at St Mary's College, Bendigo, Victo...

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How blogging (and social media) can help your business

Why blog? If your main aim of starting a blog is to capture more customers there are probably easier and less time consuming ways to do this (such as paid advertising); and blogging is of more val...

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The six-monthly business review

Why conduct a 6-monthly review? Conducting a review of your business is really just stepping back and looking at your business objectively so you can see it more clearly than when you're busy wor...

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