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		<title>The downside of taking the China option</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 02:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kerrie Richards says quality and specifications aren&#8217;t up to scratch FACING a strong dollar and the prospect of increased input costs from the federal government&#8217;s proposed carbon tax, the big concern for many local manufacturers is the threat of low-cost competition from China. But as Queensland manufacturer Merino Country has found, China has as many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mobile payments taking off</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 02:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WITH the arrival of the iPhone and smartphones in Australia in mid-2008, 2009 was the year mobile internet browsing took off. Now PayPal reports that this year mobile payments took off in Australia, opening the battlelines between payment systems, some that use SMS and others smartphone apps. PayPal&#8217;s figures indicate a twelvefold increase in mobile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Would you like coffee with that?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 02:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TWO years ago, architect and former hospitality worker Zenta Ganaka wanted to create something different. He had ideas about a shared architectural office where people could walk in off the street, then he hit on the notion of combining a lifestyle retail store with a cafe. After all, he&#8217;d worked in design and had an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marketing online: keep it open source</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 01:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOR Sabino Matera the goal was to have the Quoco website up and running for the Taste of Sydney event last March where he had paid to have a stand to display food products imported from Puglia in Italy. But despite having a background in writing code in the information technology industry, Matera found he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Firms must be all ears using social media: online reviews</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 02:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SOME companies understand social media and how to deal with negative comments about their businesses. But most small and medium-sized firms prefer to ignore the comments rather than deal with the problem head-on, as Mocks founder Lara Solomon has. Last year Solomon decided to swap PR for social media as the main marketing method for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Offline the key to online sales: Digital Camera Warehouse</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AUSTRALIAN online retailers are learning that the key to online sales success is to expand their brands offline into bricks and mortar. Insightful statistics gained online make the decision a no-brainer. &#8220;Australia is a backwater when it comes to online shopping,&#8221; dStore chief executive and local pioneer in online shopping Andrew Cooper says. He says [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cafe culture casual and comfortable: Cafe Vue</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RESTAURANTS are all well and good but they are stuffy, often expensive and unapproachable for a casual lunch or dinner. Now cafes staffed by former chefs and front-of-house staff from high-end restaurants are competing on their turf, offering somewhere to drop in any time with carefully sourced produce, wines and coffee, but at a lower [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boss has his head in the cloud: data back-up</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 01:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CUSTOMER databases, accounts and records are critical to business and if this information is lost a company will grind to a halt. The problem for many companies is that backing up information is often too complicated and expensive to do properly. But Ruslan Kogan, founder of the online stores Kogan and Milan Direct has made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tea gets a quality infusion and becomes a fashionable trend</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IF you believe the trend hunters, tea has been on the cusp of being the hot, fashionable beverage for years. But in most cafes and restaurants tea remains the indifferent teabag infused in water heated to a random temperature. In short, you are better dunking a bag in a cup of boiling water at home. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Relative merits of family businesses</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THERE are many big issues facing family businesses. For a start, the family members are not only the shareholders and the board of directors, but the management of the company too. But of everything they face, the most thorny issue is how to deal with the kids when they either want to join the business [...]]]></description>
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