Valerie Khoo, Sydney Writers' Centre

Valerie's session:Attract customers using low cost online marketing.

Valerie Khoo is a journalist, author and entrepreneur who is passionate about the concept that you can design your small business to create the life you really want.

In 2005, she founded the Sydney Writers' Centre - Australia's leading centre for writing training. Since then, it has grown from a one-person operation to a thriving centre featuring 18 of Australia's leading writing trainers, journalists and authors.

A keen user of technology, Valerie is an evangelist on how you can use technology to grow your business and double your productivity. In 2008, she co-founded The Business and Careers Institute in Sydney - a learning hub where individuals and corporate teams take one-day workshops to be upskilled in Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and other business applications.

With a Bachelor of Economics (majoring in accounting) and a Graduate Diploma in Communication (journalism, public relations), Valerie began her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers before joining a national public relations firm. She has worked at three major publishing houses - ACP Magazines, EMAP and Pacific Magazines - including three years in Singapore.

Valerie is published regularly in The Sydney Morning Herald, is author of five books and writes for a range of corporate and consumer publications. She is the journalist behind the Enterprise blog of smh.com.au and theage.com.au.

What people say:

"Valerie was simply 'inspired' as the moderator for our Meet The Entrepreneur hypothetical-style event. She entertained us all, and steered debate into important quarters, while being humorous, informed and obviously very intelligent. A brilliant performance and her preparation shined through!"
Christopher Witt, Director, Centre for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, UNSW

"Valerie Khoo is an inspiring and professional speaker who really knows how to engage an audience. She is able to impart lots of really useful information based on her extensive media experience in an entertaining and non-condescending way - I recommend her highly!"
Fran Molloy, co-founder of the NSW Freelance Journalist's Network

Robert Gerrish caught up with Valerie a short while back through his BNET blog. Here they explore the topic of getting the attention of the media.

Find out more atwww.sydneywriterscentre.com.au

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