Tag: Entrepreneur Profiles

The celebrated entrepreneur shares advice on how to grow your business and gain a competitive edge.

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.

Opportunities for disruptive ideas have never been more abundant. Here’s how to make the most of them.

We think it’s not just big businesses that should get recognised for being great. Sometimes it’s the little things small business owners do over a 12-month period that make a big difference. We spoke to 12 impressive SMBs making waves this year.

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.

Your Friday Entrepreneur Fix features Dean Ramler, the young go-getter who’s selling furniture to consumers in Australia and the UK via his wildly successful online venture Milan Direct.

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.

Australian Pressure Testing Services began as a one-man consultancy in 2002 after Paul Newbound identified a gap in the resources sector. Fast-forward a decade later, and his business has become the largest pressure testing company in Australia. Here’s how it became 2011 Telstra Australian Business of the Year.

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.

Pam and Martin Brook have come a long way since selling macadamia muesli at their local market. Their business Brookfarm was the first food-manufacturing company to win a Telstra Australian Business of the Year Award, and now exports its award-winning products across the world. Despite the global success, the founders say its community ethos remains intact, creating an important point of difference for the business.