Women's Network Australia Blog

Improve Yourself, Improve Your Business!

For your business to be better, you need to be better, and you don’t get better by doing nothing! To do this you may have to get right out of your comfort zone and join a coaching program, go along to seminars where you meet other like-minded people or those playing at a higher level of business than you.

There’s no excuse not to get off your butt and learn your way to success. Regardless of where you are located, events are taking place all around the country regularly as well as on-line. Saying you have ‘no money’ or ‘no time’ are poor excuses. Read the rest…

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Am I Being a Pest When I Follow Up?

Did you know that one of the biggest gripes against salespeople by decision makers is the lack of follow up? Many people resist following up because they find it uncomfortable and don’t want to seem pushy or annoying and many people don’t follow up because they simply forget. This lack of follow-up presents a great opportunity for those who are organized and take the time to do it.

Follow up is important because: Read the rest…

TweetMeme is Good Good for Business!

Since Twitter has reared its popular head around the web, there seem to be more chicklets (A chicklet is a feed button that normally contains a feed reader logo and has a specific blog or feed information attached to it. It is coded to easily allow users to subscribe to a feed), plug-ins , buttons and widgets than you can poke a stick at! One in particular that you may have noticed popping up on many a blog or website is the ReTweet button! Read the rest…

Business as usual: What’s going to change?

Well  the 2010 year is well on it’s way, everyone is back in full swing brimming with positivity and confidence about the year ahead. As always at this time of year, it’s important to re-evaluate your goals and what you want to achieve this year. Remember, if  ‘nothing changes, then nothing changes’ so it’s important to reflect on what worked last year, what didn’t work and what you will do differently. Read the rest…

Diversity: The old Merit vs Quotas argument

Over the week-end you may have read about the KPMG report that was commissioned to review the role of the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency. The report is currently being considered by the Federal Government. One of the recommendations seems to have grabbed attention – it’s the one about workplaces being encouraged to have a voluntary 40 percent female representation at all levels within a three to five year period or wear a penalty. Read the rest…

Marketing: How To Create Compelling Offers

Why have an offer? Offers (or incentives) are imperative because they make people sit up and take notice. Offers should stop the reader dead in their tracks and make them say “I want that!” If you don’t have an offer, it’s too easy for the reader to turn the page and move on. Even if they’re interested in your product, they won’t stop to do anything about it because they’re just too darn busy. They’ll probably say, “That looks interesting – I must get around to getting one of those.” And of course, that day never comes. So how does it actually work? Read the rest…