Lunch with an entrepreneur
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The real trends in online business
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Wednesday, 8 October 2008
The online customer journey has taken a few twists and turns, but David Trewern has been mapping the landscape. He sold his business DTDesign but stayed on to steer its course in the right (and profitable) direction, and shares his experience with AMANDA GOME.
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iStockphoto keeps customers in focus
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Wednesday, 1 October 2008
iStockphoto has become one of the world's biggest markets for photos, images and video. Chief operating officer Kelly Thompson explains how the site's loyal and often hard-to-please community keeps it ahead of the competition. By JAMES THOMSON
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Profits by design
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Wednesday, 24 September 2008
Nick Leon, from Design London, has found that design can do much more for your business than a bit of window dressing – the right design approach can go straight to the bottom line. He tells all to AMANDA GOME
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A start-up with style
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Wednesday, 17 September 2008
The brainchild behind Swap My Style is 29-year-old Shaughla Ahmad, who has brought like-minded fashionistas a new concept that combines clothes, champagne and canapes with a night out. She tells AMANDA GOME how it all came about.
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Recruiter rides the outsourcing wave
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Wednesday, 10 September 2008
Andrew Banks heads the winning HR firm Talent2, and has built a highly successful and lucrative career from making canny calls on recruitment trends. He tells AMANDA GOME about his strategies and predictions.
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Aussie’s strong growth plan
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Wednesday, 3 September 2008
John Symond’s Aussie Home Loans has continued to grow despite ructions in the mortgage market. His advice? Don’t be a victim, especially as circumstances change and customer needs evolve. He tells AMANDA GOME how he positioned Aussie as an organisation that sees change as a survive and thrive tool.
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Digital directions
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Wednesday, 27 August 2008
John O’Neill, the chair of online strategy and digital agency Komosion, talks to AMANDA GOME about shaking the status quo in the face of the changing online space.
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Life after Destra, and the digital future
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Monday, 23 June 2008
Dominic Carosa, 33, was until two months ago, the founder and chief executive of digital media and entertainment company Destra Corporation. He talks to AMANDA GOME about life after Destra, the lessons he learnt, his new plans and how the digital world is changing.
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Building online traffic with Vroom
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Thursday, 13 March 2008
The principals of fast growth online car hire business Vroom Vroom Vroom, Peter Thornhill and Richard Eastes, tell JACQUI WALKER how they built traffic with search engine marketing, created an innovative culture, and are planning global expansion.
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Sales jobs: On the road to nowhere (unless we detour)
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Thursday, 6 March 2008
The internet has changed selling forever. So why are your sales staff still selling in the same old way? International sales guru Tom Snyder warns AMANDA GOME that hundreds of thousands of salespeople will lose their jobs in the next five years unless they re-invent themselves and the way they do business.
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Online job giant SEEKs to adapt
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Thursday, 7 February 2008
Seek founder Paul Bassat speaks to AMANDA GOME about the direction his business must take to continue on its enviable growth path.
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Age proof your brain
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Thursday, 31 January 2008
Think you’re losing your edge as you age? Think again. Jennifer Goddard tells JACQUI WALKER how we can all defrag our necktop computer.
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Internet pioneer on new web trends
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Thursday, 24 January 2008
Lloyd Ernst had an early start on the web, and has learnt how to achieve growth the hard way. He talks to AMANDA GOME about future web directions and what’s in the pipeline.
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Global IP protection online
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Thursday, 10 January 2008
Safeguarding intellectual property used to be a labourious, expensive task. PCT Filer founder Justin Simpson tells AMANDA GOME how he has simplified the whole process.
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Trend master
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Thursday, 3 January 2008
What will the world be like in 30 years? And what opportunities will this world provide entrepreneurs? Europe's foremost futurist, Ray Hammond, tells AMANDA GOME.
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Echoes from the boards
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Thursday, 20 December 2007
Olivier Mythodrama's Michael Boyle talks to JACQUI WALKER about his company's unique take on leadership and the lessons that business can learn from Shakespeare's classics.
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Social central
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Thursday, 13 December 2007
Bebo, one of the most popular social networking sites, has 40 million registered members. Founders Michael and Xochi Birch talk to JACQUI WALKER about web trends and priorities for the future.
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A clean sweep
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Thursday, 6 December 2007
Craig Lovett’s company Cleanevent has transformed the venue and events cleaning industry. He talks to AMANDA GOME about how he took the company from $35 million to $135 million in six years.
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Google: Search and revenue
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Tuesday, 27 November 2007
Google Australia has a new general manager. Karim Temsamani talks to AMANDA GOME about the direction the company is taking and the trends he sees as central to Google’s future.
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The king of follow-through
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Thursday, 22 November 2007
Plenty of young entrepreneurs talk of bundling companies together and heading off to a float “by the end of the year”, but William Scott is one who went and did it. He tells AMANDA GOME the story.
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Bouncing back
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Tuesday, 13 November 2007
John Randel's first rubber manufacturing factory went up in smoke, but he clawed his way back, and has made a great success of his second enterprise, A1 Rubber. He tells his secrets to JACQUI WALKER.
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Like minds, like links
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Thursday, 1 November 2007
Fiona Boyd co-found Artshub, and has taken the lessons she learnt there to a new collector social networking site (with collection exchange capabilities) called CollectZing.com. She talks to AMANDA GOME.
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Trend master
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Thursday, 25 October 2007
What will the world be like in 30 years? And what opportunities will this world provide entrepreneurs? Europe's foremost futurist, Ray Hammond, tells AMANDA GOME.
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Business bounce
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Thursday, 18 October 2007
Founder of jumping castle franchise Jumping J-Jays, John Newton, talks to AMANDA GOME about how he started the business, and how the jump into the US came about.
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Staffing solutions
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Thursday, 27 September 2007
Recruitment Systems founder Neil Bolton chats with AMANDA GOME about mistakes, lessons and frustrations.
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In full throttle
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Thursday, 20 September 2007
The founder and chief executive of Carsales.com.au, Greg Roebuck, tells AMANDA GOME what it has been like driving a company from a standing start to 66% of market share.
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Healthy gains
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Thursday, 13 September 2007
Annette Sym’s self-published cookbooks offer recipes for “guilt-free” indulgence and have propelled her company, Symply Too Good, to leadership of her market. She tells her story between guilt-free mouthfuls with AMANDA GOME.
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The curious, cool and crazy entrepreneur
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Thursday, 6 September 2007
What do leaders need to be successful? What is creative conflict? And what about the Madonna effect? Oren Harari explains all to JACQUI WALKER.
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Gold class
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Thursday, 30 August 2007
David Gold has experienced huge success and failure. The entrepreneur from LookSmart, Dstore and Azure talks about how he made his millions – and what’s next. By AMANDA GOME.
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Winning the numbers game
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Thursday, 23 August 2007
Accounting and advice firm Hayes Knight is well known in SME circles, and has not only been helping businesses grow but going through a similar process itself. Senior partner Greg Hayes talks to AMANDA GOME about the essentials.
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Back to basics
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Thursday, 16 August 2007
Sue Ismiel built Nad’s from a kitchen-table company to an international success. Then she made a big mistake. By AMANDA GOME.
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Social science
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Thursday, 9 August 2007
Social networking is huge, and the name behind one of the biggest, Bebo, is Francisco Cordero. He tells JACQUI WALKER all about the networking revolution and Bebo's place in it.
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e-Retail therapy
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Thursday, 2 August 2007
Paul Greenberg has almost doubled the revenue of online retailer Deals Direct, to $40 million, in a year. Now, he tells AMANDA GOME, he plans to double it again.
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Loud and clear
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Thursday, 26 July 2007
M2 Telecommunications founder Vaughan Bowen bought into the industry in 1999, and has hit the $100 million revenue mark in quick time. He tells AMANDA GOME his lessons and strategies.
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Cleaning up
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Thursday, 19 July 2007
Enjo's founder Barb De Corti tells AMANDA GOME how the plan to expand her $100 million cleaning products business to the US lost her a lot of money, how her marriage broke up and what she plans to do next.
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Fast forward
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Thursday, 12 July 2007
From a $3000 website to a company with turnover of $100 million is no mean feat. EzyDVD's Jim Zavos achieved it all in less than 10 years. He tells JACQUI WALKER about the journey, and what the future holds.
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Focus, focus
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Thursday, 5 July 2007
The days of smothering the broader market with a marketing message are over. The tactic that Glen Condie’s firm Maverick Communication has so successfully taken by the horns calls for a more active approach. He talks to AMANDA GOME.
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Taking on the big boys
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Thursday, 28 June 2007
At the age of 27, Helen Jarman left a job in transport and logistics at Australian Air Express and started her own business in a very competitive and very male dominated industry. PODCAST: She talks to AMANDA GOME.
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