If Image is Everything – How do You Look?

Your image in the marketplace determines how people respond to your brand and creating the right first impression is vital to attracting long term customers.

A business image is made up of three main areas – your visual image, your sensory image and your subliminal image.  Together these combine to produce the ‘feeling’ of doing business with your organisation.  What kind of feeling do you want your business to convey - trustworthy, dynamic, modern, traditional, fast or caring for example? Continue reading

Realise Your Bright Idea in 5 Steps – Presentation

Do you have a Bright Idea? Or more than one? How do you know which one is worth keeping or exiting from?

Amanda Rose and Tony Eades presented on  how to turn your bright idea into reality by in 5 steps at the Sydney Hills Business Chamber Breakfast. Now the secrets are available for everyone.

Harness the Power of the People with FourSquare

By far one of the funkiest ways to harness the ‘power of the people’ is via the web and mobile application called FourSquare.

Foursquare is a mobile-based startup that lets people "check in" at bars, restaurants, hotels and other attractions through their smartphone. They’re a leader in combining social networking with location, allowing users to earn discounts and prices for showing up at thousands of venues worldwide. Continue reading

What’s in a Business Name?

So you’re thinking of starting a business?  You’ve probably got a great idea, an exciting product or a service that your going to provide – the foundations of any good business, but what are you going to call it?

Like many start-up businesses you may consider mixing your name with your partner’s name and come up with something like Jotom or Bevmax.  Although that may mean something to you (and your partner) it says very little to your customers.  Your business name should communicate what you ‘do’ or ‘how’ you do it. Continue reading