This month we've put our own employee hats on to come up with 50 sure-fire ways to keep staff happy. From the simple to the extravagant, we look at ways you can lure and retain good staff. We talk to a savvy business owner and discover how she is making success out of matchmaking busy business people and we show you how a better handle on your debtors book can help ease the pain. Plus don't miss our tips on how your business can be prepared for and recover from common business crises. With our online banking tips and advise on how to take your website out of the dark ages, it's another bumber issue set to help you take your business to the next level.

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50 Ways to Make Staff happy

Feature Articles:

Trudy Gilbert: Elite Introductions

Getting Your Website Right

Coping with a Business Crisis

Banking Safely Online

Tips on Managing Debtors

Welcome to our innovation special, an issue dedicated to helping SMEs take their businesses to the next level. We look at intellectual property and how to go about its protection and commercialisation; the financial incentive schemes to get your ideas to market; how to make the most of business incubators and technology parks; and a checklist for all you need to know about being more innovative. There are also features on how market research and benchmarking will drive more opportunities to your door, how private equity has become a valuable growth tool for SMEs, and a special feature on how to automate your business so it runs more efficiently, virtually by itself.

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Innovation. How to turn ideas into opportunities

Feature Articles:

Dog's Day Out

The Benefits of Market Research and Benchmarking

Automating Your Business

Private Equity & SMEs

In this issue, we ask a panel of industry leaders and experts on their predictions of how the new government will impact small to medium busnesses. We also take a look at creative web strategies and how to use new online techniques to attract more people to your website, as well as effective marketing strategies, the benefits of hiring an apprentice or trainee and how to choose the best printer to suit your individual needs.

Cover:

Kevin 08? What to expect from the new Rudd government

Feature Articles:

Shane Yeend: Using his Imagination

Tips to build website traffic

Trainees and apprentices: Beat the skills shortage

Effective marketing techniques

In this issue we look at climate change and how SME's can turn this into profit. We also take a look at tools of managing an efficient mobile fleet, we show you how to turn a niche business into a nice profit and bring you some leadership tips from Australia's former cricket coach, John Buchanan.

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The Green Dollar

Feature Articles:

Juliet Potter: Autochick drives big online business

Tools for an efficient car fleet

Tips on managing a winning team

In this issue we make predictions for the future of Australian business. What does 2008 have in store for you?

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2008: Prepare to Profit

Feature Articles:

Going Public

Fighting Fraud

The Best ISP Deal

In this issue we stay out of the federal election, sharing only inspirational case studies, such as our cover story on Anthony Bell, and our usual practical tips and advice. This month we take you through your legal obligations for trainingin the workplace, how to choose a telecommunications package, improving management and leadership skills, and how building better relationships with your bank boosts your bottom line.

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Anthony Bell: making it big in financial services.

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Telecommunication Services

Better Banking

This issue is our inaugural Young Guns special, which is a celebration of the best of Australia's youngest businesses and business owners.

Cover: Young Entrepreneurs: hot shots hit their target

Features:
Importing Goods & Services

Online Marketing

Fleet Management Made Easy

Dynamic Business takes a look at the brains behind the beauty of ModelCo's successful business strategies

 Cover: Brains Behind the Beauty

Features:

How to Find a Franchise

Power Up Your Business Plan

Get Smart About Staff

This month is all about preventing disaster in your business. While many of us don't want to have to think about the 'what ifs', the unexpected can happen, which is why we encourage all business to be prepared, just in case.

Cover: The Importance of Data Backup

Features:

The Lean, Green SME

Creating Online Security

The first of a regular entrepreneur special, this issue celebrates the entrepreneurial endeavours that shape the success of many of our favourite small and medium businesses.

Cover: 50 Favourite Entrepreneurs

Feature: What's An Entrepreneur?

This time of year means a lot for businesses. It's time to tie up all the loose ends in preparation for the end of financial year and to work out your tax bill, but it's also the time when the government announces its budget for the next year.

Cover: Wizard At Work

Feature: Sustaining Planet & Profit

This issue is themed around sales and marketing, taking you through the sales, marketing and branding tips to help get more sales over the line.

Cover: Some More From Shaw

Feature: Preparing for Tax

Our innovation special takes a look at what Australia's small and medium business should be doing to make their business stand out from the crowd.

Cover: Protecting Intellectual Property, Innovation Incentives, Business Innovations

Feature: Employee Share Ownership

Learn some key business do's and don'ts from accomplished business woman Suzi Dafnis, and how to capitalise on new staff training opportunities thanks to the internet and emerging technology.

Cover: Suzi Cues Success

Feature: Technology of the Future

Meet the duo behind Lonely Planet's publishing empire and how it all began for Tony & Maureen Wheeler.

Cover: Lonely At the Top

Feature: Capital Building

It’s the end of one year, the start of another, and Dynamic Business reviews the big issues for small business in 2006, what lies ahead in 2007, and taking a fresh look at your business as the new year commences.

Cover Story: The Good, The Bad: 2007 Business Outlook

Feature: Insurance Protection for your Business

Our e-commerce special looks at creating a great website, the legal considerations for having an online business, and marketing yourself in cyberspace. Dynamic Business talks to Wotif.com founder Graeme Wood about leading the pack in the online accommodation market.

Cover Story: Selling through Cyberspace - Marketing Strategies for your Website

Feature: Rooms With a Global View - Graeme Wood and Wotif.com 

James Stevens, founder of flower business Roses Only, discusses the challenges he faced in creating a well-known brand. Dynamic Business also looks at public relations options, what you need to know to create top package design and some inspiring businesses from the bush.

Cover Story: Everything's Coming Up Roses

Feature: Perfecting the Packaging - Mia Katsis and Moxie

Feature: 10 Steps to Wholesale Success

What can the government do to help your business? That’s the question answered in this issue of Dynamic Business. There’s more than you might think, with a range of grants and concessions available for small businesses.

Cover Story: Government Grants for Small Business

Feature: Ethical Business Practices

Feature: Charity Business Plan

Food guru Maeve O’Meara is this month’s cover woman, sharing the secrets to juggling motherhood with her television and media commitments. Dynamic Business also looks at team building, getaways for stressed minds and the keys to good systemisation.

Cover Story: Gourmet's Safari to Success

Feature: Developing Business Systems

Feature: Fleet Management

The brains behind nudie juice’s massive success, Tim Pethick, reveals what it takes to hit the heights, as he moves on and starts his next challenge. Our personal development special looks at smart management styles and why bosses shouldn’t discount getting some training themselves.

Cover Story: Nudie's Big Squeeze

Feature: Radio Frequency Identification (R.F.I.D.) Reality Check

As the financial year draws to a close, Dynamic Business asks a group of exports about what to expect in 2006/2007. This issue also features a checklist of financial tools for SMEs, and how to tackle your business’s budget.

Cover Story: Future Predictions for the Financial Year

Feature: Risk Management

Feature: Wholesale Shift to Shop Front

Sarina Russo drew on her experience as an investor, mentor and author during her stint on television show Dragon’s Den, playing her part in the future of some upcoming entrepreneurs. She shares her story in this month’s Dynamic Business.

Cover Story: Empires & Dragons - Sarina Russo

Feature: Shelter For Start-Ups

Feature: Importing

Feature: Employee Retention

One of the world’s top entrepreneurs, Sir Richard Branson, chats about getting his Virgin brand to succeed in so many different business streams. And our special report on outsourcing looks at the pros and cons, and how to calculate your ROI.

Cover Story: The Virgin King - Richard Branson

Feature: Insight into Outsourcing

Feature: 10 Ways to Sell More

BridgeClimb founder Paul Cave talks about his journey to the top in this issue of Dynamic Business. Other topics covered include maximising your business travel dollar and protecting your business’s technology against disaster.

Cover Story: A Business With a View - Sydney BridgeClimb

Feature: Business Travel Management

Feature: Retail Leases

Barry Bull, renowned retailer, speaker and author shares some secrets on how independent retailers can forge their way ahead. Dynamic Business also looks at loyalty programs, the secrets to good customer service, and experiential retailing.

Cover Story: It's all Bull - Barry Bull

Feature: Loyalty Programs

Feature: Experiental Shopping

This issue of Dynamic Business looks at the coming year for Australian small businesses, with new year’s resolutions from some of the country’s top guns.

Cover Story: All I Want for 2006

Feature: The Fertile Future

This issue takes a look at the lighter side of business - when it's time to take off and get out of the office. This issue should raise some interesting work, rest and play questions for you - have you got the balance right?

Cover: Pyjama Game

Feature: Search & You Shall Be Found - search engines and how they can help you

Feature: Is petrol costing you the earth? Cost saving options for business

In the world of franchising, it seems like everything's coming up roses. Many business owners are coming from varied backgrounds with plans to set up and start franchsing businesses within 12 months. So what's our facination with franchising?

Cover: Franchise Super Models

Features:

Franchise Favourites

In Perfect Agreement

Franchise Fundamentals

Industry Update: Reforming the Workplace

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

Dynamic Business tackles the issue of gender in the workplace: what challenges women face juggling multiple roles, how both men and women approach business differently, and what they can learn from each other.

Cover: A Star Performance

Features:

Leadership A-Gender

Building The Baton

Most entrepreneurs are, by nature, proactive people, but the apparent comlexities of self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF) often scare people from establishing their own funds. Yet as our articles outline, there are real benefits to establishing your own SMSF and it need not be complicated to set up. And with the new government legislation coming into force, we are now being asked to give our employees more control over their superannuation, but our own future needs to be maximised as well.

Cover: The Grim Side of Choice

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Ready for Super Choice?

From Here, to the Future