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Sharon Chim, Queen Bee Maternity

Sharon Chim, Queen Bee Maternity

Queen Bee Maternity provides stylish maternity and breastfeeding clothes for women worldwide. It helps them to feel great during their pregnancy. Read more

Roland Hanekroot, New Perspectives Small Business Bootcamp

Roland Hanekroot, New Perspectives Small Business Bootcamp

Roland Hanekroot is a small business coach in Sydney who works with small business owners who want to make a big shift in their business and turn i... Read more

Peter Crocker, Sam Leader, Robert Gerrish - Flying Solo

Peter Crocker, Sam Leader, Robert Gerrish - Flying Solo

Peter Crocker, marketing head honcho, Sam Leader, editorial big cheese and Robert Gerrish, founder and general nuisance spill the beans. Read more

Jan Bell, Bell’s Outsourcing Administration

Jan Bell, Bell’s Outsourcing Administration

Jan Bell is a virtual secretary who does administration and back office work from secretarial to bookkeeping. Read more

Michael Vincent, Sports Partners

Michael Vincent, Sports Partners

Sports Partners is a free, fun site where people can find other people, clubs, or businesses for sports and hobbies. Read more

Alison Taylor, Cloverlea Designs

Alison Taylor, Cloverlea Designs

We are a small online retailer that sells gorgeous babies and children’s bed linen and homewares to Australian mums. Read more

Ben Jones, Hire a Hubby Ringwood

Ben Jones, Hire a Hubby Ringwood

Ben Jones provides property maintenance services within Ringwood, Ringwood North and Warranwood. Read more

Richard Jenner, The Type Shed

Richard Jenner, The Type Shed

Richard Jenner does graphic design, for any application - print, web, packaging, shop fronts, signs... anything that requires text / images arrange... Read more

Anish K. Baheti, Concepts Coach

Anish K. Baheti, Concepts Coach

Concept Coach aims to build conceptual clarity for business owners by providing them with simple yet effective coaching on accounting and finance r... Read more

Jan Freitag, Proxim Group

Jan Freitag, Proxim Group

Combining both business coaching and business consulting services, the Proxim Group offers a fully comprehensive approach to helping small business... Read more

Keagan York, Compass Global Markets Pty Ltd

Keagan York, Compass Global Markets Pty Ltd

Compass Global Markets can help you with any aspect of the Foreign Currency transfers and Commodity markets from corporate hedging to wealth creation. Read more

Banika Smee, Witjuti

Banika Smee, Witjuti

Witjuti has a range of bamboo clothing designed for yoga, travel, maternity or just lounging around. Read more

Rachel Abdy, Pace Administration

Rachel Abdy, Pace Administration

Pace Administration offers administrative services to micro and self-employed businesses in Adelaide specialising in services for self-employed psy... Read more

Rebecca Lynn, Lightbulb Coaching

Rebecca Lynn, Lightbulb Coaching

Lightbulb Coaching helps people find solutions to problems that are keeping them from shining brightly through face-to-face and phone coaching sess... Read more

Emma Wilson, Upclose & Virtual

Emma Wilson, Upclose & Virtual

Upclose & Virtual provides professional, cost effective, secretarial services for businesses and individuals throughout Australia to reduce the bur... Read more

Bev Wilkinson, Golden Days Images

Bev Wilkinson, Golden Days Images

Golden Days Images preserves old photos and places them on DVD and CD. They are also branching out into capturing small events involving filming an... Read more

Tom Evison, Enigma Technologies

Tom Evison, Enigma Technologies

Enigma Technologies provides IT implementation, support and deployment to a wide range of clients, from home users to multi nationals. Read more

Tony Cosentino, The WordPress Guy

Tony Cosentino, The WordPress Guy

Tony Cosentino builds WordPress websites, trains businesses how to manage a WordPress site and provides long term fanatical support for WordPress s... Read more

Tim Pacheco, Function5 Web Design

Tim Pacheco, Function5 Web Design

Function5 Web Design creates and manages an online presence for small businesses, from basic information websites through to feature rich shopping ... Read more

Donna Garrett-Young, Home Building Made Easy

Donna Garrett-Young, Home Building Made Easy

Donna Garrett-Young has been a passionate renovator and builder for nearly 20 years, and is the author of the book 'Home Building Made Easy - Five ... Read more

Sharon Chim, Queen Bee Maternity
Roland Hanekroot, New Perspectives Small Business Bootcamp
Peter Crocker, Sam Leader, Robert Gerrish - Flying Solo
Jan Bell, Bell’s Outsourcing Administration
Michael Vincent, Sports Partners
Alison Taylor, Cloverlea Designs
Ben Jones, Hire a Hubby Ringwood
Richard Jenner, The Type Shed
Anish K. Baheti, Concepts Coach
Jan Freitag, Proxim Group
Keagan York, Compass Global Markets Pty Ltd
Banika Smee, Witjuti
Rachel Abdy, Pace Administration
Rebecca Lynn, Lightbulb Coaching
Emma Wilson, Upclose & Virtual
Bev Wilkinson, Golden Days Images
Tom Evison, Enigma Technologies
Tony Cosentino, The WordPress Guy
Tim Pacheco, Function5 Web Design
Donna Garrett-Young, Home Building Made Easy
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Mark Williamson - Happiness

 

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Stephen Fry: Kinetic Typography - Language

 

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The case for consistent marketing

 

Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

 

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Writing emails that get opened

 

Persuasive writing: How and why it works

 

Benefits of doing things differently

 

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Pareto Platform: Why Don't Your Clients Refer?

 

Tips to disaster proof your business

 

Are you aiming high enough?

 

Derek Sivers: Keep your goals to yourself

 

How to present effectively

 

Feliz Navidad!

 

Jerry Seinfeld’s interview with Andrew Denton

 

The parallels between cooking & business

 

From Stanford University: Lessons from a startup

 

Boundaries and why we need them

 

The signals we need to look out for

 

Behaving like a real salesperson

 

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The keys to measuring business performance

 

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Light relief: How Twitter can help with songwriting

 

How to get published

 

Are you maximising your personal brand?

 

For all our coaches and counsellors. How not to do it!

 

Pareto Platform: Defining Your Ideal Client

 

RSA Animate - The Empathic Civilisation

 

Benefits of face to face networking

 

Wayne Dyer - The Power of Intention

 

Philippa Lowe: Managing publicity

 

PayPal Here Case Study - Pretty In Pink

 

The changing sales environment

 

How to bullet proof your business

 

How to measure online success

 

Pursuing that elusive life balance. It is possible!

 

Understanding finance basics

 

An introduction to cloud computing

 

The secret to thinking on your feet

 

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Philip Shaw: Capturing website leads

 

The benefits of a meetup group

 

When do you have your best ideas?

 

Seth Godin on social networking

 

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How to meditate in a moment

 

Why videos go viral

 

Unlocking your creative potential

 

Mike Monteiro talks about how to get paid (some language may offend)

 

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