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Website Design & Search Engine Optimisation Services Melbourne \| Shepparton \| Sydney \| Newcastle
	URL:	Melbourne: www.melbournewebsite.com.au Shepparton: www.sheppartonwebdesign.com.au Sydney: www.sydneywebdeveloper.com.au Newcastle: www.newcastlewebsite.com.au
	Location:	Melbourne, VIC Shepparton, VIC Sydney, NSW Newcastle, NSW
	USP:	Low Entry Cost, High Visitor - Customer Conversion
	Services Provided:	Web Design, Web Development, Search Engine Optimisation
	Contact Name:	Adam Wydeman (Sydney& Newcastle) on 0400 077 222 Francis McCarthy (Melbourne & Shepparton) on 0434 541 813

Marketing

	Stark Reality
	URL:	www.starkreality.com.au
	Location:	Melbourne, VIC
	USP:	Small to Medium Enterprise Specialists
	Services Provided:	Marketing Consulting and Advertising Agency
	Contact Name:	Gene Stark on 03 9578 8931 or 0411 989 309

Business Strategy

	Success Enterprises Consulting
	URL:	www.success-ltd.com
	Location:	Melbourne, VIC
	USP:
	Services Provided:	new businesses starting up existing companies that want to grow firms that have reached a plateau organisations that have decided to sell businesses that want a high performing team
	Contact Name:	Steve Wood on 03 9436 3030

IT Strategy

	Coremind
	URL:	www.coremind.com.au
	Location:	Melbourne, VIC
	USP:	Proactive IT Solutions (solving problems before they cost money)
	Services Provided:	Proactive IT Solutions
	Contact Name:	David Kellam on 1300 889 925

Intellectual Property Law and Copyright Protection

	Sharon Givoni Consulting
	URL:	www.sharongivoni.com.au
	Location:	Melbourne, VIC
	USP:	What sets me apart is that I help protect what sets YOU apart - your intellectual property that gives you a competitive edge.
	Services Provided:	Intellectual Property Law Copyright Law and Associated Services
	Contact Name:	Sharon Givoni on 0410 557 907

General Legal Counsel

	Law to your Door
	URL:	www.lawtoyourdoor.com.au
	Location:	Melbourne, VIC
	USP:	The legal advisor that understands you, with advice you can understand.
	Services Provided:	General Legal Counsel
	Contact Name:	Danielle Romaine on 03 9557 0888

Copy Writing Services

	Signature Copy
	URL:	www.signaturecopy.com.au
	Location:	Noosa, QLD
	USP:
	Services Provided:	Business Copywriting Website Copywriting
	Contact Name:	Ingrid Ritson on 0407 874 482

Professional Photography

	Say Heidi Photography
	URL:	www.sayheidi.com
	Location:	Melbourne, VIC
	USP:	I care!
	Services Provided:	Professional Photography
	Contact Name:	Heidi Wernicke on 0403 343 431

Bookkeeping

	Counting Sense Book Keeping
	URL:	www.countingsense.com.au
	Location:	Melbourne, VIC
	USP:	We are not just bookkeepers - We assist small business to identify, control and achieve their financial goals.
	Services Provided:	Book Keeping GST / BAS
	Contact Name:	Barbara Ford on 1300 880 863

Print, Design, Finishing, Mailboxes and Couriers

	MBE Malvern
	URL:	www.mbemalvern.com.au
	Location:	Melbourne, VIC
	USP:
	Services Provided:	Print, Design, Finishing, Mailboxes, Couriers
	Contact Name:	Ray Orr on 03 9576 2909

Travel - Business and Pleasure

	Travel Managers
	URL:	www.travelmanagers.com.au/
	Location:	Melbourne, VIC
	USP:
	Services Provided:	Corporate Travel Private Travel
	Contact Name:	Allen Suss on 0433 203 713

Search Advertising

	Reach Local
	URL:	www.reachlocal.com.au
	Location:	Melbourne, VIC
	USP:
	Services Provided:	Google Adwords Management
	Contact Name:	Peter Kamper on 0423 881 690

Office Fitouts & Property Styling

	Room to Improve
	URL:	www.roomtoimprove.com.au
	Location:	Melbourne, VIC
	USP:	I give personalised service (you deal only with me). I do not let the client go to unnecessary expense, I have great field of resources and am very aware of branding and work very closely with the logo or image of the company.
	Services Provided:	Corporate Office Fitouts Residential Property Make Overs
	Contact Name:	Leah Jacobs on 0418 335 315

EXPERTS

People Development Expert

How to manage change in your business

A step-by-step guide

How do you feel about change? Some changes are desirable and welcome, such as business growth, increased profits or developing new skills. But what about business changes such as cost cutting, pay freezes and downsizing? Many businesses are being forced to make these changes in the economic downturn. And change that is forced upon us (by events outside our control) is often the most difficult to accept and manage.

If you ...

Marketing Expert

Orlando Green - Marketing Expert - Biography

In this increasingly wireless world, the human touch is becoming a rare commodity. At Hands On Design, we provide cutting-edge technology and solutions custom-fitted to yourself or to your business, but we also know that the best way to personalise something is to ensure that we work with the person behind it. That's why we stand by our name. It's more than a motto. It's who we are.

With over two decades of experience in the fields of digital desi...

Customer Management Expert

The Seven Essential Questions - Part 2

Question 2: Have you ever wasted time searching for a key piece of customer information or needed to retrieve exactly what you sent to a customer/prospect?

Never waste another hour searching through paper-based systems, multiple spreadsheets, and e-mail folders. With contact and customer management, you have complete information at your fingertips. And, if you don’t immediately see what you’re looking for, you can perform ultra-fast database lookup...

Property Investment Expert

Gus Trigo - Property Investment Expert - Biography

Gus Trigo has been in property industry for 15+ years.

In this time he have seen and experienced the power of property and its ability to create wealth first hand, almost effortlessly, and as long as some fundamental rules for investing and developing are adhered to, SUCCESS is GUARANTEED.

Gus has been very fortunate and have always managed to work with some excellent mentors, the best in that field which he wanted to experience. Gus Trigo is a lon...

Productivity Expert

Here’s How Small Business Owners Can Save Valuable Time and Money

How valuable is your time? Most small business people do not value their own time. It is not unusual for owners of SMEs to work 60 – 80 hours per week. All that effort for less than the average weekly wage.

Do you really want to spend time sitting in front of the TV, stuffing envelopes to save money? Sure, you’ll feel good about saving a few dollars, but what else could you have been doing?

How about doing something less menial and more productive...

Wealth Creation Expert

Top 6 Tips for Surviving the 2008 Financial Crisis

In my previous article I promised I would expand further on the importance of personal wealth protection. Given the turbulence in the markets and the fear that’s all around us, I thought it would be best to put this topic on hold and instead provide some guidance on how to survive the financial crisis.

Being undoubtedly in a bear market (falling market) since August last year, the first question you might ask is how much longer will this last?

Ex...

Strategy Expert

Recession is here. What can I do now?

Steve Wood of Success Enterprises Consulting Pty Ltd looks at what individuals can do should they find themselves in a recession and lose their jobs.

“Strategic Management Consulting to Achieve the Art of the Possible”™

Over the past few months the sub-prime mortgage fiasco in the USA has impacted Australia. We have seen the stock market drop, interest rates rise and rise, petrol prices rise, and the housing market taking a hammering.

And now they ...

Resilience Expert

Are You Acid or Akaline?

If you start your day with a coffee and a piece of toast with jam, snack on a coffee scroll, are under time pressure and stress each day, and finish your day with a steak, some pasta, a glass of wine, topped off with a piece of chocolate, then chances are that your system is acidic, creating stress feelings and draining you of energy.

An excess of acid in your body fluids, known as Acidosis, can create joint pain, weak bones, promote weight gai...

Property Styling Expert

How important are first impressions to your business?

Consider this; how quickly do you decide whether or not to pursue a relationship? Regardless of the situation (work or personal), it is impossible to escape the throes of a first impression. You react to it and create opinions. And these can take a lifetime to change.

In business, your first impression is a weapon which needs to be wielded with force. A fabulous logo, attractive brochures and an engaging website will attract customers to your off...

Networking Expert

5 Steps To Creating a WIN WIN Strategic Alliance

Tired of the merry-go-round of networking events where everyone's there to sell and no-one's there to buy?

Feeling like a used car salesman, trying to flog your business with every person you meet, when it’s not really your style?

Why not try creating a productive alliance with another business owner where both of your businesses can benefit?

You can create WIN WIN strategic alliances with other businesses by following five easy steps.

Step 1 ...

Management Expert

How to implement your Financial Strategy in 2009

In my previous article, I discussed 3 ways you can increase your profits. So once you have decided on your 2009 financial strategy (whether for your company, business unit, department or organisation), the next step is to implement it.

What are the chances that it will be implemented? Whilst you can ensure your strategies positively impact profitability, growth and cash flow (and KPI’s) - it’s not all up to you. Strategies are after all, realised...

Lifestyle Expert

Here are Some Ways You can Use the Power of Spring to Reinvigorate Your Life

Did you have a productive winter? Did you use the time to re-evaluate your life, think about things that could enrich your future? Don’t worry if you did a bit of hibernating instead. This is the time of year to invigorate your life.

Spring is here!

There are so many opportunities to start new projects, to come alive and enjoy the balmy days. Embrace the sense of renewal, the energy and the vitality.

Spring, the time of new beginnings, the birth o...

Fashion Expert

The top seven sins of Mens fashion

Here they are – the seven sins revealed. Equipped with these secrets, you’re sure to be looking suave, well-polished and professional – Jack Bootle style.

Shoe Talk. Your shoes don’t just walk, they talk. So having scratched, scuffed and unpolished walkers means you’ll be talked about (and not in the way you’d hope). A well-groomed shoe is the very motif to corporate success – it spells care and attention-to-detail. Okay, so we all know shoes are...