Our roundup of online small business accounting systems earlier this year included QuickBooks Online, but at $295 a year that’s overkill for smaller businesses. The newly-launched CashBook Online is a cheaper web-based option for small businesses from the same developer, priced at $198 a year.
Making sure you include contact details on a business site is a basic lesson everyone should know. But there’s another important detail service professionals should include but often don’t — how far they are willing to travel to do work.
Online accounting software means that your financial records will be accessible from any computer and eliminates the need for constant backups and fiddly upgrades. Make the right choice with our roundup of online services for managing finances for Australian small businesses.
No-one seems to have been scared off launching group deals sites just yet, but in the competitive local marketplace, having a point of difference seems vital. Earlier this month we saw a group deals site concentrating on tickets; now we’ve got a site promoting deals for small businesses.
Voice over IP (VOIP) telephone services can provide a telephone system for your business that’s both cheaper and more flexible than a standard office PABX. Lifehacker 101 looks at the main approaches you can take.
Everyone and their dog has an opinion on how to perform “search-engine optimisation” (SEO) and make your online business more visible in major search engines; how do you distinguish the potentially useful tactics from the snake oil salesmen? The simple answer: put your energy into building a quality site rather than worrying about the search impact of what you have done.
Having an online presence is essential for a business these days, but setting one up and maintaining it can seem both time-consuming and expensive. Here’s five simple strategies you can use to enhance your online business presence for little or no cost, whether you’re a part-time start-up or a rapidly growing organisation.
The judge’s decision has been made: here’s the winners of our SME Technology Summit contest, each of whom get a free pass to the event in Sydney on December 1.
