In this issue we looks at how SMEs can tender for lucrative government contracts, what government incentive schemes are available and how government is assisting people to export.
Cover: Love Me Tender
Features:
Dyanmic Businesswomen: The Right Recruits
Be Safe, Not Sorry
Internet Hit List
Love Me Tender
Government departments spend billions each year purchasing goods and services from private organisations, ranging from toilet paper and office equipment to IT systems and artillery. Rebecca Spicer finds out how to access these huge and lucrative markets.
Getting started in business is never easy, particularly when you’ve got next to no capital. Rebecca Spicer caught up with two dynamic businesswomen who’ve built a successful recruitment company with some government assistance and a clear focus on making people the priority.
Occupational health and safety legislation varies from state to state, but Steven Brown gives us the low-down on the national requirements for OH&S, and tips for designing the workplace so that general and specific hazards can be eliminated or managed.
Having a great product is good, but without promotion it won’t go very far. Camille Howard talks to a business owner who is using the media to get her business message across Australia and around the globe.
The tech-savvy, point-and-click iPod generation that are today’s students now have a global community of like-minded learners, teachers, and parents at their fingertips, thanks to Melbourne-based IT firm, Etech Group. Monica Higgins reports.
