As a small business owner, maximizing return on investment (ROI) is essential to the long-term success of your business. One strategy that can help achieve this goal is forming strategic alliances with other businesses. Strategic alliances are mutually beneficial partnerships between two or more businesses that work together to achieve common goals.

Nudge Accounting provides offers online accounting packages as an affordable end-to-end solution for small businesses and start-ups. Based in Pyrmont NSW, Nudge Accounting’s team of Chartered Accountants ensure your finances are managed efficiently with efficient online systems, cloud storage and a dedicated client success manager. Nudge also offers business improvement process reviews, taxation services and KPI management to make sure that their clients’ businesses stay on track.

Marketing Eye has been working as an outsourced marketing agency for Nudge Accounting. Marketing Eye helped to develop a marketing strategy for the potential small business and the start-up market that Nudge Accounting could be exposed to, whilst also improving their website and generating more attention towards their social media channels.

Starting a small business is always going to be a tough venture. No matter what industry you want to enter, there are at least a hundred other companies doing something similar to yours. The market is already saturated with ads and marketing campaigns, but you still need to find a way to cut through all the noise. Guerrilla marketing is an excellent way to implement a marketing strategy that is a fraction of the cost of a regular strategy. Below, we discuss what guerrilla marketing is, the components of a successful guerrilla marketing campaign, and the types of guerrilla marketing that work the best.

The World Incubator is a not-for-profit business incubator based in Wherry House, Charters Towers. Modelled on incubators in the USA, the philosophy of The World Incubator is to develop business ideas and take them to the world, employing local people. 

The World Incubator aims to help local communities in the Charters Towers region grow their and start-up businesses from the idea stage to commercialisation. Each incubator participant has access to mentoring, education, training, development and marketing to help them develop their business ideas and take them to ‘The World’ stage.

Marketing Eye worked with The World Incubator to create a marketing strategy that focuses on a clean look and feel that directly reflects what their brand stands for. Outsourced marketing through Marketing Eye also allowed the not-for-profit to create a modern and easy-to-navigate website that provides an optimal user experience for potential users making it that much easier to contribute to the cause.

They are an affectionate bunch - by accident. It's not how they intended to be and it certainly is not politically correct to hug your colleagues particularly in this era of 'harassment' claims, but someone had to do it, and they did it right.

Wouldn’t it be nice to live in a world of endless PTO, stunning vacation destinations, and perfect work-life balance? Unfortunately for most small business or startups, this is the stuff of dreams. They are often more focused on “surviving” than “thriving”.

When the focus is on “surviving”, the more creative aspects of a business such as content marketing can be stifled. Keeping up with emerging technologies and societal trends and consistently meeting the customer’s ever-changing needs is exhausting. To make it a little easier, we broke it down for you.

Are you tired of posting blogs on your business’s website and not receiving hits? Sick of sending newsletters and not getting high open rates? It is stressful to put your heart and soul into something you write and have no one read it. There is one thing you should always think about before writing - everything you write must be written with a purpose.

I once heard the analogy that starting a business is like solving a Rubik’s cube and it knocked me off my feet with its accuracy. As the words rolled off the strangers tongue in front of me, I was immediately thrown back to a time where I was working in an overcrowded office/house alongside twelve other dedicated twenty-year-old somethings trying to build nothing into something incredible.

One of the biggest myths small businesses owners believe to be true is that press releases are only successful for large businesses. You do not have to have to have a full public relations department or be a huge corporation to attract media attention. Whether your small business is interested in building brand awareness, online presence, or SEO, a press release is a cost-effective way to inform people about your company news.

Did you know that around the world, people purchase a mobile phone subscription before almost any other product? Literally after people have fed and supplied shelter for their families, their next priority is having a cell phone.