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As small business owners we all what to create wealth so we can enjoy financial freedom but sometimes the realities of running an enterprise in challenging economic times can knock around these expectations.

So Amanda Cassar of Wealth Planning Partners is here to help with investment ideas to create that much desired financial success.

How Mentoring Benefits You

We're big fans here of the mentoring process so to help explore this better we've brought on board a specialist in the field from our friends at Ask Her.

Find out how mentoring benefits you with Tina Clark.

15 Top Tips for Choosing the Right Party Plan Business

Setting up your own party plan business can be a great way to create extra income to achieve your financial dreams.

So we thought we'd help our with 15 useful tips for how to choose the right party plan direct sales company and we got advice from the experts!

Use Leverage to Make More Money While Doing Less Work

Find out how you could be using leverage to make your life easier.

These top blogs with business leverage ideas and all the latest leverage tips will help your business become a success. Learn easy tips that will help you improve traffic, earn more money and use your social media effectively. Change your business to benefit you by using leverage to your advantage!

7 Great Tips for Creating a Profitable Yoga Studio

Always dreamed of having your own vibrant yoga school bringing physical and spiritual health to others in your community but want to be sure it's an economic success so it can flourish?

Well we've got 7 top tips for new and established yoga schools to quickly implement that bring in more yoga students and improve the bottom line while creating positive change within your local community.

10 Reasons Why A Mentor Or Business Coach Is So Good

Business owners and professionals seek out mentors and coaches when they're determined to succeed, when they realise the difference between mediocrity and real success comes down to their determination to bring the best team together around them, including a coach, a business coach.

Business coaches and mentors are great investments in you and your business and we have 10 top reasons for why you would benefit from joining forces with your very own coach.

12 Top Tips For Saving Your Business With A Strong Cash Flow

Winning in the cash flow business and keeping your cash flow up and your business from going up in flames can be difficult. With these 12 top tips staying on top of your business's finances will seem like a breeze.

Make sure your business is prepared for the current economy and become cash flow obsessed!

Making Your Retail Business Flourish During a Recession

So you're in retail and want to make sure your business not only survives the recession but flourishes.

Here are 7 great tips to help you achieve your goals and make your business a success.

5 Tips for Fashion Business Success

Ever wondered what it takes to create a successful online fashion boutique?

We caught up with Jane Simpson of HowNowMadamCow to find out what inspires her and what are some of the realities of growing a small business online.

Be Inspired by the Fabulous Angela Vithoulkas

Angela Vithoulkas is a vibrant business woman who inspires not only her staff but small business owners across the country with her enthusiasm, determination and passion for small business and everything else she touches.

Come meet this talented lady who is making social media work for her small businesses and shows the rest of us what really can be possible if you simply give it a go!

Who Else Wants a Thriving Creative Business Online?

With a passion for creating, textiles, colour and the simple things in life, Lisa Porter is making a great success of her homebased business.

We caught up with Lisa to find out what inspires her, the realities are of growing a thriving business and discovered a kind hearted woman flourishing.

Shear Naked Success for Handbag Girls

We found Borne Naked online and instantly knew we had to catch up with the spirited and talented lady behind it, the woman who's making a dream come true - getting to play with handbags and creating her own successful small business.

So come find out what inspires Amanda George, what's involved in leaving a job for your own business, how she surmounts challenges and what's next for Borne Naked.

20 Top Tips for Twitter

Maria Aragon's YouTube video of herself singing Lady Gaga’s Born This Way received over a million hits after Lady Gaga herself posted the link on her Twitter. This powerful tool was able to shoot Maria to YouTube fame in just one day.

So think about what it could do with your business. We all won’t have an A List celebrity tweeting about our business, but Twitter can surely help network with your customers and clients aswell as your boss and colleagues.

How to Make a Small Business Grow on a Small Budget

When a passion for marketing and creating her own small business Natalia Padgen went with the flow and made her own success.

Find out what makes this talented lady tick and how she is forging her own path.

When the Creative Muses Call Loudly

When you have a love for sparklies, beads, jewels and treasures you just have to listen to your heart and take a flying leap.

That's what Tracey Makaev of Babushka’s House Handmade Jewellery did and we caught up with her to find out how's it going and what inspires her to make her own creative business.

How Adaptability and Hard Work Creates a Small Business

Find out how a love of craft, a desire to control work hours and create a balance in life inspired a passionate mum to bring a business to life.

We caught up with Alison Bolakis of Mums Who Make to learn what inspires her and the business success tips she's learnt on her journey.

Find Out How a WAHM Creates Joy

Be inspired by an Army wife and mum of two who is winning the battle against post natal depression by building a mum's support network on Facebook.

We caught up with Linda Bradfield of Nifty Mums Network to find out what lights up this lady's life and discovered a real woman making real impact for the mums and kids around her. Read on and get the motivation you need to be the change you want in the world.

How a Love for Fabrics Becomes a Flourishing Business

We caught up with the talented and passionate Alana Kelly of Yumminess Textiles to find out what inspires her to create a flourishing business on Facebook.

So come learn and laugh with us as Alana tells her story and passion for the freedom she treasures having her own business.

Making Treasure from Gemstones the Smart Way

Szarka Carter is turning a childhood love for gemstones and treasures into a booming online business through hard work, a focus on strong business ethics and an enduring passion of creativity.

We caught up with the determined lady about what drives her to make Magpie Gemstones the flourishing business it is today.

Being Genuine on Facebook is Great for Business

Find out how Erica Perry and Cas McCullough of Support a WAHP, the dynamic duo with complimentary skills, are planning to make an online business flourish no matter what life throws at them.

It's all about team work, business planning, marketing and being authentic on Facebook. Come learn some great practical business lessons with these impressive Queensland girls.

How 10 WAHMs Turn Negative Feedback into Sales

When you're running a small business feedback from customers, suppliers and other business owners can be a great way to improve products and services and build a really successful business.

But getting to the point of taking feedback constructively can be a real growing opportunity so we asked 10 small business owners for their advice, tips and experiences and were impressed by their candor and support.

The Secrets of How to Take a Local Business Nationally

We've found a truly inspiring self made business woman, Alison Shaw of Ripple Massage, who is growing a small local service business into a flourishing national mobile business.

Find out who inspires this woman, the team she works with and how she is changing the face for the mobile beauty and massage industry all from her aerie in Mount Tamborine.

How to Create a Facebook WAHM Business with Flair

Meet Haylie Durrington of Little Miss Fascinated and find out how connecting with the WAHM Facebook community has not only help grow her business but shared inspiration and support.

We caught up with Hayley and learnt how she's created balance and what her top 5 tips are for other women growing their own creative business.

Secrets for Success for a Mum & Daughter Online Business

Be inspired by Carol Parsley of Butterfly Kisses Designs as she shares her secrets for success when creating your own small business on Facebook. Working through challenging health issues with determination and family love and support Carol is surrounding herself with beautiful treasures.

This is part of our series on getting to know real life women who are bringing their dreams into reality through their own small business and sharing their 5 tips for others to make it happen.

5 Tips for Social Media Success

When Angela Vithoulkas of VIVO Cafe in the heart of Sydney suddenly lost 2,000 customers in the GFC in just a few days she knew that if her business was going to survive then she had to find a cost effective way to attract at least another 2,000 new customers.

Find out how Angela grew her business and now has international customers book tables for when they're in town with 5 top tips for making social media work for your small business.

How a Passion for Quality & Kids Clothing Design Becomes a Business

If you love quality handmade kids clothing come have a look behind the adorable pictures and find out what's involved in designing, creating, loving and living the dream with Kylie Walsh of Little Monstas.

This is part one of our series this year on meeting inspiring, real life women who are living their dreams - come explore with us and be inspired!

Inspirational Style Secrets to Inspire

Find out what it's really like to do what you love, create your own successful business, constantly find inspiration and raise a family with your best friend as She Inspires talks with Lilian Oliver of Lily Chic Events!

This is part one of our series this year on meeting inspiring, real life women who are living their dreams - come explore with us and be inspired!

Making a Success of Your WAHM Business

When you're a rural WAHM business hours from a regional city it takes a dash of spunk and a load of determination to make your new business flourish but Lee-Anne Johnson of North QLD Mumpreneur Expo has what it takes!

Find out what inspires this woman and how the internet is letting her charge through self-made opportunities!

Building Your Own Online Business

With changing economic times many of us look about with an interested eye as to what we can put in place to create some financial choices for ourselves. Starting your own online business can be the ideal back-stop solution to taking away the risk of suddenly loosing your job. While for others is the opportunity to bring in some extra income and sieze the golden opportunities that are about - wouldn't we all love to be earning some foreign currencies like US dollars and UK pounds with the Aussie dollar taking a pounding?

Building your own successful online business all happens by simply starting! So here are some get going articles to launch you onto your own path of financial freedom:

Creating an Online Business

7 Blog Features of a Trusted Online Authority

When it comes to creating your own business blog the hardest thing can be figuring out where to start. So as the first in a series of four articles about Dan Norris gives a brief overview of what it takes to create a platform for sharing great content for your target audience. Find out what tools to use and the features your blog needs to have to make it the ideal online business marketing tool.

The Basics of Website Design for a Trusted Online Authority

Creating a professional looking and working website is crucial for establishing yourself as a trusted online authority.

In the second in a series of four articles Dan Norris gives a brief overview of website design basics to create an authoritative online presence.

How to Rapidly Get Back Links to Your Website

An effective linking strategy is crucial for getting your site up high on Google's organic searches, bringing quality traffic and making a success of your online business. So learn how to get your backlinking strategy working quickly and effectively with our top 15 tips for bloggers, online retailers and online businesses. Give opportunity a chance to happen!

Finding Online Shopping and E-commerce Reports

Finding useful reports online can reveal hidden gems of not only statistics but ideas that lead to profitable ventures.

We were inspired by the IBISWorld report into Online Shopping in Australia and an Austrian report into Online Communities so went hunting for more to share with other online entrepreneurs.

Getting into Online Shopping in A Big Way

It's becoming increasingly important for retailers to have an effective online presence.

Research by Professor Julian Thomas, Director of the Institute for Social Research, has found more money is being spent online and only the smart retailers who are keeping up with e-commerce are growing just as fast.

What It Takes To Start Your Own Website

It can be duanting trying to figure out where to start with creating your own website so here Belinda Stinson outlines the tips and tricks so you can quickly launch your own new online business.

Naming Your Online Business

The difference between having a good online business name and a dreadful online business name can be counted in the number of zero's showing in your monthly sales report.

So what do you need to know when coming up with a domain name that works? Find out with these practical and informative tips!

Why Content is So Vital to Your Online Success

Making your business site easy to find makes the world of difference to how many valued visitors you hook.

Building Your Customer Database For Success

Regularly communicating with your potential and existing customers is vital for getting those valuable and profitable repeat sales and email newsletters let you cheaply and constantly achieve your online marketing goals.

Find out how to grow your email newsletter list and earn more money.

Online Resources for Starting A Business

Here you can find a collection of online resources about starting and growing your own business.

Come explore these useful sites and share your own ideas with us too.

The Corporate Life

The Secret of Having the Life You've Always Wanted

If work has suddenly seemed unbearable and life isn't what you thought it was going to be you're probably in your 30's and looking for a way out.

This is a great time to explore what's important to you and how you want to be living your life. Who knows, you just might end up healthy, wealthy and wise as well as deeply happy. Come explore with us to see what's possible.

The Challenge Is On for Leading Australian Businesses

The leading 200 Australian companies need some inspiration given the latest numbers to come out about female board representation. While Australian government agencies are clued in to the market advantages of having women on their boards it's still a case of the old boy network falling behind again.

While companies with a higher number of female board members keep making more money around the world it's confusing and disappointing to see Australian companies get it wrong. Do they really ne

Make More Money for Your Company with Female Board Members

To mark International Women's Day have a look with us how companies can increase their profits and performances by increasing the number of female board directors and senior executives.

University and College

A Memorable Internship Overseas

For the last 3 months we've had working with us a talented and sassy intern all the way from the USA. For us, it's been a delight having Taylor on board, so we thought we'd get the girl herself to share her story of inspiration and wonder.

Read on to find out what it's like to take a flying leap into the unknown and land on your feet.

7 Top Tips for Getting Through Your First Year at Uni

Having survived her first year of university Liz Bowen shares with us her top 7 lessons learnt tips, from parties to lectures, professors to cafeteria food.

It's not just about figuring out how to be organised enough to get to class, finish assignments in time and fitting in work and a social life while starting your first home. There's a whole lot more to it.

Travel and Work All In One with an International Internship

If you have been dieing to travel why not consider doing an international internship? There are tons on internship opportunities and internship programs that will find the internship you are looking for.

Get work experience while exploring a brand new place. This is a great way to build your student work experience and have fun traveling abroad at the same time!

7 Practical and Helpful Tips on Making Your Lucky Break into Your Industry

With the change up in the economy breaking in is harder now than it has been for years. It's even more crucial to gain experience in your chosen field as Liz Bown finds out.

Getting work experience or an internship that gives you opportunity for hands on working knowledge opens doors both at university as well as out in the workforce.

Sales Guru Tim Shaw Sales Advice

12 Top Up Selling Tips from Tim Shaw

Want sales growth and freshen up your sales strategy and get some free small business help?

Check out these great retail sales tips by the guru himself, Tim Shaw.

Learning from the Best with Tim Shaw on Sales

For Tim Shaw the secret of being a top sales executive is all about creating that special relationship with the customer.

Find out here how it's done with these gems of ideas.

12 Top Tips for Increasing Your Jewellery Sales from Tim Shaw

Learn about Tim Shaw's advice to jewellery businesses and see how this can work for your own success.

We have 12 handy top tips about marketing for small business by one of the world's best sales executives so make sure you take advantage of this free advice.

Work, Travel and Play

Tips for Student Interns Working Abroad

So you think international internships are the go and you've decided a student internship is the adventure you want to get a broader experience to put you ahead of the pack at home!

Here we have a heap of great tips to help you get started so you can make the most of the intern opportunities offered by international internship programs.

Making A Living from Writing

5 Top Tips for Journalists

I've always found Ita Buttrose a fascinating woman so when Richard Fidler interviewed her on International Women's Day I stopped what I was doing and listened.

Ita Buttrose's advice to young journalists caught my attention so to help inspire writers and journalism students around the country I'm sharing it with you in this article that explores what makes a good journalist.

7 Top Tips for How to Create Your Own Published Writing Portfolio

Getting into the writing and publishing industry can be challenging - experience is always wanted and getting your foot in the first door can be the hardest experience.

Opening the door yourself can be much easier and here, we'll go through an easy way for you to get started with the minimal of cost with the potential for great rewards with 7 great tips for getting started.

Over 100 Blog Ideas for Writers to Showcase their Skills

So you want your own blog to showcase your writing skills and need some help with ideas? Here are over 60 blog writing topics for writers to get the creative process flowing.

We then take one of these ideas and drill down to over 40 sub-topics to show you how to have a well of story ideas to get you going for your first year of writing and self publishing.

10 Great Podcast Interviews with Successful Authors

With the Sydney Writer's Festival starting I thought a great way to celebrate it would be access to a range of interviews with fascinating authors by the talented Richard Fiddler of ABC Local Radio.

So here is a list of 10 Podcast interviews with authors for your enjoyment.

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