Entrepreneurship

Marcia's latest book, "High Heeled Success", and is a frank account of building a business from a solitary sales person to a multi-million dollar business with 4700 sales consultants around Australia and New Zealand. It recounts successes and failures along the way and was written to inspire entrepreneurs, particularly women, to triumph in business. Marcia’s latest venture is skin care company griffin+row.

So how is your 2011 shaping up?

Author: Marcia Griffin on 1 February 2011

I recently ran into a business friend who confessed that her New Year resolutions were already fading into the distance and that is with only one twelfth of the year over!

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The customer is always right!

Author: Marcia Griffin on 11 January 2011

Over our January break we have had some interesting business news; I was fascinated to see the responses of the big retailers to internet sales GST issue.

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Strategic planning for successful businesses

Author: Marcia Griffin on 5 January 2011

This article first appeared July 6, 2010.

Last week I attended a really great strategic planning retreat and I have had time to reflect on why it was so successful and what lessons it held for good business communication.

The Oprah and Wikileaks phenomenons

Author: Marcia Griffin on 14 December 2010

Oprah and Wikileaks have dominated the media for the last week.

Don’t let the postman stop you

Author: Marcia Griffin on 30 November 2010

The SME sector is full of amazing stories of entrepreneurs who take risks, invest their own money and get little support from the government to do so, despite the fact that without SME's the economic landscape would look very different.