SME Inspiration
In my 21 years of presenting, facilitating and observing many other speakers, I’ve learnt some very powerful distinctions about what works and what doesn’t when it comes to speaking to any audience.
When you look at your people, what do you see? A team? A set of individuals? If you’ve ever watched a Formula One team in action, you’ll see a master class in teamwork.
It struck me on the weekend while watching the footy that there are a lot of things we as business people can learn from elite athletes.
It’s time to wake up — there’s a full day’s work ahead, projects to catch up on, dates to go on, and friends to catch up with.
If there was any doubt that crowdfunding campaigns can be equally as successful for social entrepreneurs as commercial businesses, a new Australian record proves the naysayers wrong.
For many small businesses, it’s only by joining forces that you can achieve economies of scale and have a voice that’s loud enough to be heard over the big guys.
It’s the time of year where old state rivalries rear their ugly head, and suddenly everyone is a football fan.
For business owners, the cleaning requirements of an office space are little more than an invoice that comes in the mail once a month.
Automation via robots is an enterprise solution that has traditionally been associated with large scale manufacturing runs, heavy and/or dangerous work, and of course, cost.
When you’re in business, time flies and you can often forget to take a moment and contemplate how far you’ve come, so I’ve used this milestone to take the time and list seven lessons I’ve learned throughout my past twenty years in business.
‘Seniorpreneurs’ are the fastest growing segment of entrepreneurship, and considered by experts and researchers as the next boom.
The dilemma is whether to be the nice girl, aka: the pushover, or the character from Devil Wears Prada.
Thousands of entrepreneurs behind commercial, creative, and not-for-profit ventures have already had their ideas funded by putting it to the masses and asking for their startup capital.
So you’ve decided to make the jump into the world of franchising… Now all you need to do is chose the perfect business from more than 1,300 franchise systems operating in Australia. Piece of cake, right?
Deciding to bite the bullet and start a business is really only half of the first step – the other half is deciding whether you want to go it alone, or purchase a franchise.
At Mercedes Benz Fashion Week this past week, the designers were nervous, the models thin, and the lights bright.
This is a story ripe for a riveting Australian film or television mini-series.
Despite the paperless world in which we now supposedly live, ticketing has long defied innovation.
Do you leap out of bed every morning at the thought of going to work? Does the workday fly by without watching the clock? If you answered yes – good on you – for those of you who didn’t, you’re not alone.
As a startup it is inevitable that you’ll make some choices during the early days that might not be ideal.
