Practical and inspiring advice to boost your business

With sessions covering marketing, profitability, social media (both LinkedIn and Facebook), speed thinking and high performance, Independents' Day was a fabulous day of learning and development. Check out our snappy video round up of the day.

Below are the main sessions along with slides from the presentations:

Dale Beaumont MarketingDale Beaumont: 7 new rules of marketing success

Broadband, social media, Google, global outsourcing, smart phones, cloud computing and more… welcome to the new normal. It’s never been faster, easier and cheaper to grow a profitable business for those who embrace digital marketing platforms as well as make the most of old media. Dale will show you how to do just that. Read more.

Jennifer Bishop LinkedInJennifer Bishop: Attracting business with LinkedIn

As an 'inbound marketing' specialist, few people understand the power of LinkedIn like Jen Bishop. In this pacy, hands-on session, Jennifer will unravel the mysteries of LinkedIn and show you how to fly from zero to 1000 valuable connections! You'll gain actionable advice on how to use LinkedIn to learn, leverage and link. Read more.

Paul Wallbank Online ToolsPaul Wallbank: Online tools to turbocharge your business

Tech correspondent for various ABC Radio programs and prolific blogger and commentator, Paul will showyou how to use free or cheap online tools to build a simple idea and turn it into a great business. Focusing on the cloud and online technologies you'll learn how to make your business more flexible and profitable. Read more.

Dr Ken Hudson Speed ThinkingDr Ken Hudson: Speed thinking – Thrive in a time-poor world

Speed Thinking is a powerful system that will lift your results in time-pressure situations and help you generate big new ideas. By thinking quicker you can bypass your internal barriers to high performance and operate at the edge of your unconscious minds where breakthrough ideas, increased productivity and sharp decisions happen. Read more.

Julia Bickerstaff ProfitabilityJulia Bickerstaff: How to manage your business for profit

Tons of effort, not much profit; it’s the same story for many small businesses, but it needn’t be. In this session, Julia will guide you through how to design your business for profitability. You will take home a selection of simple do-able actions to immediately improve your profitability. Read more.

Lara Solomon FacebookLara Solomon: Succeeding with Facebook

While the stampede to social networking is undeniable, for many small businesses, there’s a massive gap where a strategy needs to be. In this session Social Rabbit’s, Lara Solomon shares the secrets that doubled her online sales in three months while expanding her Facebook fanbase by over 12,000 in the same period. Read more

Emma Bannister PresentationsEmma Bannister: The secrets of powerful presentations

Emma has an unwavering belief in PowerPoint (when used properly), and trains business people how to maximise its potential. With proven tips, design tricks and case examples of the good, the bad and the ugly, her workshop explores the importance of strong visual support and shows you how to achieve winning presentations. Read more

Dr Helena Popovic Brain ElasticityDr Helena Popovic: Boost your brain and get ahead

Most people work on building up their financial assets. But how many of us work on developing our greatest asset: our brain? Neuroplasticity shows that the brain can change and grow in response to our behaviour. Far more than passive victims of our genes, we can play an active role in how our brain performs. Read more.

Phil Dobbie Expert InterviewsPhil Dobbie: Host of the BNET Expert Interviews

Phil is a freelance journalist, podcaster, writer and video producer, with a strong background in business. He presents the daily BTalk podcast on BNET.com and Twisted Wire, a weekly telecommunications industry podcast on ZDNet.com.au. Thanks to BNET, Phil will be undertaking a couple of in-depth Expert Interviews during the day - to be captured on video and broadcast  at a later date - and will be roving around interviewing presenters and delegates in his typically upbeat, inquisitive style.

Michael Nealyon MCMichael Neaylon: Maestro of Ceremonies

We're thrilled Michael's agreed to keep us all in line! Michael is an actor, writer and producer with over 20 years in entertainment, alongside a career in sales, marketing, branding and corporate entertainment. Michael owns MCME, an interactive marketing, performance and training business, is a Flying Solo expert contributor, and author of ‘True BrandToolkit: How to Bring in Big Money for Your Small Business'.

Coaching Café: International Coach Federation

International Coach FederationVisit our Coaching Café during the day for a one-on-one with a coach from the International Coach Federation – Australasia Chapter. You'll experience first-hand the benefit of working with an experienced  coach to support you and your business. Professional coaches provide an ongoing partnership designed to help you achieve your goals, improve your performances and enhance the quality of your personal and professional lives.

 

 
  • Wow, what a spectacular day!

    2009 attendee

 
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