When was the last time you wanted to purchase office equipment or items for your home, or tried to enlist the help of a professional service provider? What was the service like? Did the person who tried to sell... read more
Kimberley Turner started her own company, Aerosafe Risk Management, while she was still a student at university. Now, five years later, she employs a dozen full-time staff members and has clients across both the military and commercial aviation sectors.... read more
Strategies for Motivating Yourself to Do a New Action You may well need every trick at your disposal, including: ask a friend to come by every day to do it with you; promise yourself a reward for each action;... read more
The Internet is gaining ground every day. An increase in users is paving the way for more and more online business opportunities as consumer and business-to-business sales increase and customers demand a higher level of service. As the Internet... read more
Amanda Briskin’s first venture, MiMCo, was established four years ago. Selling bags, hair accessories and jewellery, the company’s products are now available in department stores around the country and through more than 200 outlets in the United States. Her... read more
Amy Lyden launched her Bow Wow Meow pet tags with personality product range five years ago and now distributes through over 1,500 pet shops and Veterinary Clinics across Australia and New Zealand. The Internet site, www.bowwow.com.au, has been live... read more
For the third consecutive year, Fone Zone has been listed in BRW’s ‘Fast 100’, a premium list of Australia’s fastest growing companies. The company is expected to turn over $55 million in 2000-01 and plans to open another 20... read more
One of the common dilemmas that I’ve noticed during my 12 years of consulting to small business is that some business owners have com-pletely lost sight of why they decided to go into business in the first place! Many... read more
Grocery shopping over the internet has taken off in the United Kingdom over the past two years with around 80% of the country’s working women buying their groceries online. This trend is taking off in Australia and a recent... read more
Almost every business owner in Australia has more intellectual property than they currently realise. The good news is that these hidden intellectual property assets can add tens of thousands of dollars to your business’s overall value – immediately. It’s... read more
At the time of writing this I was at Starbucks in Houston airport, with the infinite variety of humanity swirling around me. I’d just finished spending time with my new marketing contractor, Trish Lambert. We met via the internet.... read more
The Four Steps to Success In the beginning, great products were enough to guarantee business success. Product sophistication, six sigma manufacturing and zero defects clearly beat the competition. But benchmarking, product imitation and reverse engineering soon appeared…and now everyone... read more
Join award-winning entrepreneur and CEO Suzi Dafnis at the Profitable Business Workshop on 14 November.
