Every one of the people sharing their expertise and knowledge with you on March 30 is a small business operator or helps small business. Scott Kilmartin Founder & Designer, haul
haul have been "Selling Rubbish Since 1998" The innovative design brand makes street accessories from upcycled materials. Turning vinyl advertising billboards & truck inner tubes into laptop sleeves, iPad cases and messenger bags. From humble beginnings in a garage in Tasmania, haul now has retail and wholesale arms supplying specialty stores locally and overseas. It is in the web space that the haul brand has grown by harnessing social media combined with offering 5000+ unique products in it's online store In 2009 haul kept 35 tonnes of recycled material from landfill. In 2008 haul won the City of Melbourne B3000 Business of the Year. Early this year the brand will launch TOWNhaul, their latest store in Melbourne's laneways. Dr Stephen Downes MBBS, MMktg Dr Stephen Downes is Principal of QBrand Consulting Pty Ltd. He has worked for more than 20 years in marketing communications, marketing strategy and brand strategy in Australia, Asia and the US. He also has extensive experience as a management and marketing educator, most notably as a lecturer at RMIT University where he co-ordinated Masters courses including Brand & Product Management, Services Marketing & Management, Advertising Theory & Practice and Advertising Strategy Planning. www.qbrand.com.au _________________________________ Bambi is a marketing purist who believes that great, enjoyable, achievable, cut through ideas - that actually work to promote a business/brand and attract customers - don't just come from outstanding creative thinking: They come from having a solid foundation - A Marketing Strategy. Gus The Boxer haul is the innovative design brand that makes streetwear accessories and corporate products from upcycled materials.
And Gus is pretty much responsible for running the show. He is a designer, product tester, occasional blogger for haul and offers his pearls of wisdom to his 1400 (and growing) twitter followers.
Gus is kept busy each day greeting & offering his services as a personal shopper and provides guidance and support to the haul team. In his spare time, he raises money for charity, most recently the Lort Smith Animal Hospital of North Melbourne and also enjoys long walks along the (doggy) beach at sunset.
You can connect with him @ READ PROGRAM REGISTER TO ATTEND CHECK OUT TESTIMONIALS
They know the challenges of running a small business and how important it is for you to protect your resources.
They have been selected not just because of their empathy and outstanding marketing knowledge but also because of their ability to communicate - so that you are assured of receiving down to earth, easy to apply, relevant information.
@ScottKilmartin
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Warren Davies, Thinktank Media
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Under the Fez, QBrand Consulting
As a management consulltant his clients have included healthcare organisations, financial services, industry superannuation funds, professional service firms and industry bodies, as well as industrial, FMCG and retail companies. Stephen also frequently designs consumer research and provides expert opinions in legal and regulatory proceedings regarding brands, trade marks and advertising.
He has strong academic, research and cultural interests in brands and consumer behaviour, and is in demand as a commentator on these issues in the media, through his blog (The QBrand QBlog) and the online newsletter Crickey!
Debra Templar,
Owner, The Templar Group
One of Australia’s leading retailing enthusiasts, Debra Templar just hates bad customer service and stupid business practices. So… she’s on a mission to change them.
"I don't just want to improve how we do business for the customer’s sake but also that we, as business owners, sell more stuff, make lots more profit, and love our businesses back to life!"
Debra’s tools for change are business coaching programs, business consulting, business seminars, training sessions for staff and/or business owners, keynote presentations, books, articles and cd’s. Her technique is to challenge, tease, cajole – in fact force - us to look at how we do business by asking us to jump the counter and view our systems, our processes, our policies and our beliefs from our customers’ point of view.
She then applies her considerable skills and experience to show us ways to be better at what we do (often better than we thought we could be…).
She doesn’t pull any of this stuff out of academic tomes and university courses – she simply shows us how to apply the skills that she has applied to her own and her clients’ businesses over the years.
www.thetemplargroup.com.au
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Bambi Gordon,
Owner, The Woo Small Business Marketing Agency
Without a Strategy businesses don't just lose their way - they can't find it.
Which is why she is building a Marketing Agency that not only understands Strategy and how to apply that strategy through down to earth, and easy to implement tactics - but also that understands the strains, tensions, challenges and limited budgets of small business; that provides clients with tactics that they can resource, goals that they can achieve, and builds around them support by way of quality suppliers who know how to deliver, even with small budgets.
The Woo exists because when it comes to marketing, small business - more than big - can simply not afford to get it wrong.
After 20 years in senior marketing roles in Australia's leading media organisations, she has spent the past 10 years in small business - primarily servicing the education and motivational requirements of business owners
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The brains and face behind haul
