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By offline do you mean in retail or physical stores? If you do, the answer is probably yes although I feel that online User Experience is catching up. I would label offline UX as IUE (Immersive User Experience) because you can control and adapt to a customers many senses to create a good environment for catalyzing the sale. Online I would a new acronym is probably more descriptive than UX and that would be CUX (Customer User Experience) I see this as a blending of customer service and user experience.

More companies are starting to higher people to guide and improve their User Experience for customers, however, many establish companies are adopting it at a slower pace than startups and small businesses. This is puzzling because many established companies need a lot more help because they have a much larger backlog of things that need improved and resolved.

One reason I believe UX is not being adopted more quickly at companies is they don't truly understand the value that these professionals add. Many can do front-end development work as well as design and usability work. Also, UX practitioners can help make improvements based on customer feedback and professional best practices to reduce or eliminate issues before they are ever developed or delivered to production. It is between 10 to 100 times more costly (when you consider all the effort and hours) to fix things after they have been released. So, by working with UX designers you can save money up front by not having more issues to resolve later.

I have experienced first hand many times that once a developer, business analyst or project manager see the results firsthand they are much more willing to work with UX professional in the future.

Mezzanine finance is a type of finance that is part debt and part equity. Essentially, if the debt is not able to be repaid, then the financier has rights to part of the equity in your business or project.

If you want to claim GST credits for the GST you have paid on taxable imported goods, you need to be the sole importer of the goods OR import the goods partly for a "creditable purpose" as defined by the ATO. This means that you have imported the goods to Australia for your own purposes (e.g. to sell, hire, lease the goods as part of your business activities) or you/your agent are the named owner of the goods in the import declaration paperwork. On the other hand, you wouldn't be entitled to claim GST credits if you're a freight forwarder, customs broker or other type of facilitator as you aren't importing the goods for your own purposes. 

You can find more edetailed info about this on the ATO's website: https://www.ato.gov.au/Business/GST/In-detail/Rules-for-specific-transactions/International-transactions/Claiming-GST-credits-for-goods-you-import/?anchor=H2#H2

This is another of those old chestnut questions that pre-supposes that there is some genuine delineation between digital and traditional. As if Digital is something just discovered and considered separate from other marketing activities and disciplines.Let’s get one concept straight – Marketing is marketing, the addition of a prefix (i.e. Direct; Digital; Gorilla; Interruption), is just a simple way of defining what area of the art or science you are discussing.Digital refers to a platform/medium used within marketing for over a quarter of a century to carry, transmit and display ideas and messages (text pictures sound etc.)So every time that someone else asks if digital marketing is taking over traditional marketing for the hundred-thousandths time I feel the need to state the bleedingly obvious again – NO!

Before I could really weigh in on this topic I would need to know more information to really be able to help.

For example:

• Why specific types of IT service will you be providing?
• Are you aimed at small business in general or focusing on an industry (health care, financial, retail, etc.)?
• How are you positioning yourself (trusted partner, security experts, general IT needs)?

Hi Yee,

There is a scale yes depending on their length of service.  Plus depending on their age they may also be entitled to and an extra week.

It may also depend on if they have an award, what the employment contract says, if they have enterprise agreement or other registered agreement.

As your question relates to a legislative matter I would suggest you use the notice calculator on the Fair Work site.

You can also call the Fair Work helpline on 13 13 94.

Great insight into how Ozbargain makes money, though I’m not surprised that it is mostly ads. Their traffic is mostly organic and there are hardcore Ozbargain-ers out there who follow deals religiously. I have several friends who are always hunting for a bargain and have Ozbargain on their alerts and subscriptions. It fills a niche or gap in the market.