Women In Business
Each week we’ll feature a business that’s endured an incredible challenge. Here, Amanda Foy recalls the destruction of her business at the hands of mother nature and how she managed to clear the mud and keep going.
When Sharon Thurin started Slim Secrets in 2005, she never dreamed her niche healthy snack business would become hot property in global markets. Here’s how the Aussie entrepreneur built a brand that’s in demand across the globe.
For many small bricks and mortar retailers, the prospect of adding an online store to the mix is daunting. How will you manage the technology? What about all the extra responsibilities? According to one Canberra boutique owner, the secret is good systems and a willingness to educate yourself.
Each Tuesday we’ll feature a business that’s endured an incredible challenge. This week, Lisa Mills explains how the loss of her hearing aids meant she had to discover a new way to communicate with clients.
When Amy Richards’ partner had a near fatal motorcycle accident, the old cliché ‘life is short’ was driven home in the most frightening of ways. Now, she’s running one of the country’s best up and coming accessory brands.
Layne Beachley didn’t want other driven women to face the same financial hardship she did at the dawn of her surfing career, so the determined seven-time world champion has turned her attention to building her own social enterprise.
When Diana Williams opened the first Fernwood gym in 1989, she thought she was setting herself up with a new hobby. Williams never expected her pastime would attract more than 68,000 members and generate over $100 million in turnover.
Sharyn Smith launched the country’s first word-of-mouth marketing agency, and she’s revealing how she’s built a business by promoting your business.
You’re either a words person, or a numbers person – right? Not in Valerie Khoo’s case. Here’s how the accountant, turned journalist, turned entrepreneur has built a profitable business out of words.
Jo Ucukalo is the entrepreneur handling the complaints on the nation with her rapidly-growing business, Handle My Complaint. As the star of this week’s Friday Entrepreneur Fix, she reveals how SMBs should be managing disputes from customers.
A local father-daughter team are changing the way consumers buy flat-pack furniture with their innovative design-it-yourself online tool, delivering some competition to the global furniture empire that is IKEA.
Seventeen years ago, PhD student Margarite Vale found that safe and effective therapies for chronic diseases were being underused. With a vision to bridge this treatment gap, she began developing The COACH Program, which has since become the most widely-used chronic disease management program in Australia, and was named Telstra Business of the Year in 2009. Here, Vale reveals how she turned clinical practice into a viable business model.
Your Friday Entrepreneur Fix this week features Handle Your Own PR founders Jules Brooke and Simone Heydon, who took the loss of clients during the GFC and turned the bad luck into a thriving new business.
Your Friday Entrepreneur Fix this week stars SourceBottle founder Rebecca Derrington, who’s remade the relationship between journalists and expert sources and created a profitable business in the process.
As the 2012 Telstra Business Women’s awards open for nominations, Dynamic Business is speaking with twelve former winners about the impact the program has had on their businesses. Here, 2009 winner and Laser Skirmish founder Nicole Lander talks about the importance of an innovative spirit in business.
Sipping Marsala tea while having foot reflexology in a luxury world-class spa may seem like an unusual place to close a business deal. However, that’s exactly what some women were doing at the Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network Event (DWEN) in New Delhi, India this week.
Lou Kendall and Heidi Bailey are a pair of entrepreneurs disproving the old adage that you shouldn’t mix business with pleasure, and the LouenHide founders are the stars of this week’s Friday Entrepreneur Fix.
Fifteen female entrepreneurs from Australia were part of an exclusive group of 149 women from 11 countries at the third annual Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network Event this week, including our woman on the ground Valerie Khoo,
It’s official, female business owners are more confident than their male counterparts, and it shows in the nature of their focus and planning. Here’s a look at the other areas women in business are forging ahead.
Like most 20-year-olds, Nancy On was searching for exactly what she wanted to do with her life and becoming increasingly frustrated when she couldn’t figure it out. And now, just six years later, Nancy has achieved staggering success in an unlikely form – network marketing.
