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The Australian Government is promising a package of tax cuts, investment incentives, productivity enhancing measures and less red tape. But will it be enough to kick-start the economy?

For years now, mobile usability has been a factor in Google’s search algorithm. Websites that are optimised suitably for use on mobile devices rank higher than their non-optimised counterparts, even on desktop devices. But until now, that ranking factor has been both limited and ambiguous.

The government has introduced legislation to make its budget announcement of the small business immediate asset write-off a reality, with the details revealed thankfully not straying from what we suspected.

Bill Gross has founded a lot of startups, and incubated many others – and he got curious about why some succeeded and others failed. So he gathered data from hundreds of companies, his own and other people’s, and ranked each company on five key factors. He found one factor that stands out from the others – and surprised even him.

This month’s Client in Focus is It Works!

We speak with Jake Marchant on the startup of the new business venture he and his wife embarked on – “It Works”.

I had the pleasure of being invited to a presentation on Friday 13th March 2015 by talented architecture firm CKDS from East Gosford, where they unveiled their triple-tower concept for the old Froggys site in Mann Street, Gosford called “Waterside”.

Companies could be in line for random audits as soon as next year under advice being considered by the Tax Office.

This month’s Client in Focus is Rick Boylan, owner of Louvreland (otherwise known as Shading Solutions).

We speak to Rick on the success of his business and discuss the challenges he and his team encounter on a day to day basis.