Selling Your Home But Worried you Won’t Get The Best Price
Selling Your house can be quite daunting. You meet with agent after agent and they need to choose – auction or private sale – before you know how much interest there is in your house, It’s all based on guesswork. They you are locked in with no option to adjust your strategy as interest in…
The benefits of using a blog as part of your marketing strategy
Blogging, with the blog attached to the business or company website, is an important aspect of the online marketing strategy of many businesses. Here are some of the reasons why. A blog can attract visitors to your website – and keep them there awhile If your business has a blog, many people visiting your website…
Nobody likes Work Place Disputes
There is nothing worse than having disputes in your work place, whether they be Bullying, or Harassment allegations or just staff not getting along. It’s bad for morale, and your business profitability. HR staff are mostly very busy people, and may not have the time or expertise to deal with these disputes in a timely…
The six Cs of starting up a business: Common sense
The six Cs you need to successfully start up a new business are: Creativity Common sense Courage Commitment/resilience adaptability to Change Communication. I have already dealt with the first C on the list, Creativity, in a previous article in Gippsland Business Connect. The second C is: Common sense When planning to start a new business,…
Knowledge is NOT Power, Knowledge is only “Potential Power” – Action is Power.
Throughout my corporate career I heard many, what I thought at the time to be wise individuals, quote “Knowledge is Power”. I have come to learn that it is action that creates the power, even if the action results in a substandard outcome! We don’t always know the way to do something, but by taking action…
Problems Worth Solving
When you have a business idea, it’s hard to know where to start or whether your idea has any merit. This is the most common question we get asked so we thought we’d share a few tips to help you take your first entrepreneurial steps. What problem are you solving? Every business idea needs to…
STARTUP GIPPSLAND 2019 CULMINATES IN DYNAMIC PITCH NIGHT – part 2
Continued from last week… Dr Elena Kelareva also spoke of the importance of community and about uncovering the international business ‘gold’ in the region to support the Startup Gippsland program. “This is also about population attraction – to bring people to Gippsland we need not just nice houses and infrastructure but also a great community.…
The benefits of employing people with disabilities
The world of work is changing and so are attitudes around what constitutes a team and how organisations can adapt to meet operational goals as well as social responsibilities, encompassing inclusive employment for people of all abilities. Society is also demanding more of organisations and these changing expectations mean that those organisations that can genuinely…
One Key Thing Your Business Can Do To Support Eco-Conscious Customers
Many people have now heard of the term ‘zero waste’ and of people with jars filled with their whole year’s worth of waste. But what exactly is the zero waste movement? The zero waste movement focuses on maximising resources and preventing waste. The goal is for no trash to be sent to landfills, incinerated, or…
Startup Gippsland 2019 culminates in dynamic pitch night
The newly reborn West Gippsland Arts Centre provided a fittingly brilliant stage for the grand finale event of the 2019 Startup Gippsland program. Over 300 guests came to celebrate and the hear the Startup Gippsland pitches, some travelling hundreds of kilometres and interstate to be part of the night. There were six major prize winners:…