Angela's Business Mix Guests & Topics – 31st October 2011
Tune into Radio 2SSR 99.7fm every Monday night from 6-8pm for ‘Angela’s Business Mix’- an informative and entertaining radio show all about the world of small business.
Angela will help drive you home from work with a special mix of small business fun and facts.
Joined by regular weekly and invited guests in the areas of finance, marketing, coaching, health, legal and tax, Angela helps tackle all of the issues small business owners face in their day to day jobs.
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Tune in Monday 31st October for interesting discussions on:
Our health system in crisis
Doctor Themi ( Doctor TG ) is a certified medical practitioner, author and public and motivational speaker with over 20 years of experience specialising in health and relationships. Graduating from the University of NSW School of Medicine in 1989, Themi was the youngest Neurosurgical trainee in Australia at the time. He later went on to study nutritional, environmental medicine, phyto-naturopathic medicine, and anti-ageing hormonal medicine. Themi is well placed to offer knowledge and true and effective solutions to relationships that may be floundering under changing circumstances. After twenty years working in medical practice, he has a wealth of experience placing him in a position to truly understand work/life balance and the importance of optimum health needed for achieving business success. You can follow Themi on Twitter @Doctor_TG or like him on Facebook. Themi will give his opinion on:
- Waiting lists for elective surgery worse than ever more likely to die on a waiting list than get surgery
- Emergency department waiting times unacceptable
- Mental health crisis government reducing funding under the guise of better outcomes programs
- Medicare verses private system and outcomes
National survey reveals Aussies choose best reputation over price when hiring a tradesman
PickAQuote.com.au is changing the way customers look for service providers by offering a platform to post your job online and let the professionals bid for the work! Forget spending hours searching the internet and chasing the best quote, with PickAQuote.com.au you can sit back and relax, then simply choose the business that best suits your requirements. There are currently thousands of service providers registered on the site including accounting, building, catering, computers, legal services, pest and weed control and renovations to name a few. From painting a front fence to removing a tree to a complete bathroom renovation – no job is too small or too large for PickAQuote.com.au. Adam Dong and Marcus Lim are both Directors and Co-Founders of PickAQuote.com.au. Marcus Lim and Adam Dong will give their opinion on:
- Introduction to PickAQuote.com.au
- Benefits to their customers
- Benefits to service providers
- Using third party referrals, reviews and ratings
- Industry statistics
The Open Shed start up journey
Lisa Fox is the Co Founder and Director of Open Shed, a peer to peer rental website, that helps Australians make the most of their stuff by renting it out to their community. Open Shed is Lisa’s first foray into the small business world. In March 2011 Lisa quit her job as a Government Lawyer to start creating Open shed with her partner Duncan Stewart. Duncan also quit his job as a software developer to focus full time on developing Open Shed.
They have been dubbed the “travelling start up” because the pair are house sitting around Australia to keep their costs low while they develop and grow Open Shed. Lisa is passionate about promoting Collaborative Consumption – the modern take on the age oldbehaviours of swapping, renting, bartering and trading, which technology is now enabling in new ways. Follow Lisa on Twitter, follow Open Shed on Twitter, like them on Facebook, follow their blog. Lisa will give her opinion on:
- The Open Shed start-up story.
- The growing Australian Collaborative Consumption movement – an overview of existing and new Australian businesses in this space.
- What is open Shed? And how can it help you tap into the potential of your idle stuff.
You Tube – doing the basics Right
With over 15 years in the services industry, Brendon knows a thing or two about dealing with people. Combined with a love of Social Media and technology, Brendon provides businesses with sound advice on Social Media strategy around customer relations and business. A self confessed technology and internet nerd, Brendon spends way too much time online. So much so that most of his friends are now jpeg’s! Brendon provides Facebook for Business training regularly at the St George & Sutherland Shire Business Enterprise Centre. He is commonly found in the fetal position when his iPhone battery dies. Super fun guy! Visit Brendon's website, like him on Facebook, follow him on Twitter. watch him on Youtube, connect with him on LinkedIn. Brendon will give his opinion on:
- Why You Tube is so powerful (relationship to google)
- Short format video (mobile) versus professional video)
- How to create basic videos with mobile tech
- What information is critical in the description section
- Tagging your video
Don’t discard your mature age workers
Peter Black is a well rounded Business and Executive Coach, with particular specialties in C-Suite coaching with financial services and IT industries and professional services firms. Peter has over 30 years of business and coaching experience combined with a unique suite of business focused personality, behavioural and leadership assessment certifications. Peter assists in achieving business, career, organisational and/or life goals. He has worked with many individuals and organisations to facilitate successful business, career, executive and retirement transitions - whether exiting a role or organisation (outplacement), entering a role or organisation (on boarding) to becoming more effective in an existing role (executive coaching). Follow Peter on Twitter, visit his website, visit his blog, connect with him on LinkedIn. Peter will give his opinion on various issues including:
- Forecast demographic and economic growth changes are forcing a rethink of how we deal with mature age workers
- Technology – some of fastest growing groups are older age groups
- Employers can consider a variety of strategies/options regarding mature age workers
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