SEMBA Business Resources

Maureen Pound and Carmen Williams are two extremely talented, courageous and determined women who are helping other like-minded women do what most don’t accomplish - MAKE SERIOUS MONEY from their business.

They want others to understand that they too can succeed if they follow these 3 principles:

• The key to success is bravery and the first step is to be honest with yourself.

• Many women don’t speak about or focus on money. Consequently they don’t obtain a lifestyle that they love.

• You can have it all, but you don’t need to DO it all.

This event is sponsored by Officeway Office National. Leaders in the stationery and office furniture industry.

Furniture: www.officeway.com.au

Stationery: https://www.officenational.com.au/shop/en/dandenong

Carmen and Maureen before Friday, here's their website https://www.bebravemakemoney.com/

Love being organised but find it hard sticking to a system?

This is right up your alley…

Meet my gifted friend, Carlie Maree.

Carlie is a business coach who believes you can be successful doing what you actually love.

She provides various coaching options and courses as well as running the SoulBiz Sisterhood, which is a business support group for women where loads of guidance and teaching is provided.

MOTIVATION

What do you want and how do you want it?

Learn how to bust what’s blocking you.

Learn how to reframe so you can lose the ‘shoulds’ and take positive action in a way that feels good.

PRODUCTIVITY

Let's plug the holes where your time, energy and headspace are draining out. Create momentum and start seeing actual results that charge you up and keep you moving.

ORGANISATION

Planning, scheduling, routines, structure. Does it make you cringe? But you feel like it's the missing link? Let's make it work for you in a way that FEELS GOOD.

If this sounds like what you’ve been looking for, join us midday Friday 2nd November in the SEMBA South East Melbourne Business Associates

SEMBA is sponsored by Office National Dandenong. They offer exceptional service and value on office products. www.officeway.com.au

You can find out more about Carlie here: https://www.carliemaree.com/

You work hard for your money. So let’s make sure you’re getting the most out of it!

An inevitable part the selling process is naming your price.

It's something that many struggle with.

Are you scared clients will think you are too expensive?

How do you know you are charging a fair price?

How do you position yourself as worthy of being paid well?

Olivia de Sousa-Ferres interviews Ashleigh Alsadie from The PromoDonna on exactly these issues.

Officeway Office National Dandenong is an office supplies and stationery business in Dandenong, Melbourne.

They are proud to sponsor SEMBA Facebook group in bringing this to you.

You can contact Officeway via their website: http://www.officeway.com.au/

You can join SEMBA South East Melbourne Business Associates Facebook Group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/semba...

You can contact Ashleigh from The PromoDonna here: https://thepromodonna.com/

In today’s podcast I chat with Tracey Hall from Ethical Direct Selling.

She has a passion for helping others. She does this through her business, mentoring business people, particularly in the network marketing space, and in recent years she has made it her mission to help as many foster kids as she can.

Officeway Office National Dandenong are proud to sponsor SEMBA Facebook group in bringing this to you.

They are a specialist office supplies and office furniture business in Dandenong, Melbourne.

You can contact Officeway via their website: http://www.officeway.com.au/

You can join SEMBA South East Melbourne Business Associates Facebook Group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/semba...

You can reach Tracey Hall via her Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/EthicalDirectSelling/

Success in all areas of your life starts with what's going on in your mind.

Much of what happens in our minds is below our conscious level.

So what can we do about it?

Karen Culjack is a mindset coach specialising in cognitive behavioural techniques. She explains how this all works and how we can get the most out of our life.

Officeway Office National Dandenong is an office supplies and stationery business in Dandenong, Melbourne.

They are proud to sponsor SEMBA Facebook group in bringing this to you.

You can contact Officeway via their website: www.officeway.com.au

You can join SEMBA South East Melbourne Business Associates Facebook Group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/semba...

You can find Karen from New Horizons for Life here: https://www.newhorizonsforlife.com.au/

Stacey is a social media marketing guru!

I have trained with Stacey and she has been a huge help to me.

Social Media is a huge topic, so we’ve decided to focus this session on talking about Facebook and how to use it to connect with your target audience.

SEMBA Facebook group can be joined here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sembabusiness

Officeway Office National sponsor SEMBA. They are a business to business supplier of stationery and office furniture in Dandenong, Victoria. They go above and beyond for their clients. They can be found here: http://www.officeway.com.au/

Stacey Murray can be reached via her website: http://www.alfalfasocial.com.au/

In today's podcast, I chat with Justin from Abode New Homes

Justin and his wife Karinda have gone from being broke and on the brink of bankruptcy to paying back all their creditors and clawing their way back and creating a successful building company that has won voted Darwin's best builder 9 years in a row, and recently winning the HIA Australian Professional Small Builder / Renovator of the Year

If that wasn’t enough, Karinda won the 2017 Telstra NT Business Woman of the Year

This is a husband and wife team in business who's skills and talents differ in such a way that they compliment each other to benefit their business success. It's the story of a couple whose disciplined and consistent approach has gotten them where they are today

SEMBA Facebook group can be joined here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sembabusiness

Officeway Office National sponsor SEMBA. They are a business to business supplier of stationery and office furniture in Dandenong, Victoria. They go above and beyond for their clients. They can be found here: http://www.officeway.com.au/

Justin can be contacted via Abode New Homes: https://www.newabode.com.au/

As part of our series of business interviews, I chatted with Brad Mill from Oscars Hangout in Mordialloc. He talked about the reality of running a small business, as well as how he went about becoming known as the community destination hangout with spending any money on marketing

In this episode I chat with Lynnaire Johnston. Lynnaire is  journalist, word smith, content writer, as well as a LinkedIn Marketing consultant.

Lynnaire came highly recommended by people who were extremely happy with their LinkedIn marketing strategies after having worked with Lynnaire.

This episode has lots of useful tips.

SEMBA Facebook group can be joined here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sembabusiness

Lynnaire can be contacted via her web site at https://www.wordwizard.co.nz/

Officeway Office National sponsor SEMBA. They are a business to business supplier of stationery and office furniture in Dandenong, Victoria. They go above and beyond for their clients. They can be found here: http://www.officeway.com.au/

Stop chasing your tail- take Strategic Action!

You know those people who are just so busy, head down/bum up, feeling overwhelmed and are simply not achieving what they set out to do? Is this YOU?

Carmen Williams from Strategic Action Consulting will step you through the 5 steps that you need to take to achieve results in your business, leaving you feeling clear and compelled to take powerful action. 

Carmen Williams can be contacted here: https://strategicaction.consulting/

SEMBA Facebook group can be joined here: 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/sembabusiness/

Officeway Office National sponsor SEMBA. They are a business to business supplier of stationery and office furniture in Dandenong, Victoria. They go above and beyond for their clients. They can be found here: www.officeway.com.au

Vikki and I met Mark Stipic (The WorkCover Guy) via Greater Dandenong Chamber of Commerce events. We stayed in communication via this SEMBA South East Melbourne Business Associates page. 

We at Office National Dandenong decided to enlist his services. He and his team discovered that we had been classified incorrectly, which resulted in us receiving a reduction in premium which definitely justified our decision.

Mark and his team are experts in all things WorkCover, including:

✅ Understanding the WorkCover system

✅ How your WorkCover premium is calculated

✅ How injuries and claims impact your business

✅ How to prevent injuries and ensure people don't take unnecessary time off work

Mark and his team can show you how to overcome the toughest barriers in Return To Work, seriously reduce WorkCover costs and achieve sustained success.

Find out more about Mark Stipic here: http://markstipic.com.au/

SEMBA Facebook group can be joined here: 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/sembabusiness/

Officeway Office National sponsor SEMBA. They are a business to business supplier of stationery and office furniture in Dandenong, Victoria. They go above and beyond for their clients. They can be found here: www.officeway.com.au

Digital Marketing is central to most business marketing strategies in today's world.  Vaughnn Brooks from Targeted Marketing Solutions has a wealth of knowledge in this area.

After having seen a marked increase in sales as a result of Vaughnn's work, Olivia invited Vaughnn on the show to share his marketing wisdom.

Vaughnn can be contacted here: http://www.targetedmarketing.com.au/

SEMBA Facebook group can be joined here: 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/sembabusiness/

Officeway Office National sponsor SEMBA. They are a business to business supplier of stationery and office furniture in Dandenong, Victoria. They go above and beyond for their clients. They can be found here: www.officeway.com.au

Fraud can devastate good people, destroy people's businesses and livelihoods. Think this could never happen to you? We hope it doesn't. But don't leave that up to chance. Find out how to protect yourself from someone who has the expertise and experience we can learn from. 

In his 25 years Financial Controller experience covering a vast variety of industries & companies, Jeff has seen Fraud first hand, done fill-in project work for sacked senior Finance Fraud people and researched this topic extensively.
By nature, Jeff is a forensically focused person so management were fortunate to have him at the “coal face” of their business sometimes detecting questionable practices by some employees.
Jeff is passionate about this topic as he hates to see Business Owners ignore this potential risk to their business, possibly losing their business and/or marriage, hates to see cheats in senior positions and also hates to see staff lose their jobs because of just one corrupt fellow employee. 
Jeff is Author of the very popular Fraud Prevention E-book “Could Staff $Fraud Ever Close My Business?” In his tutoring on this topic, many clients have avoided suffering from some of staff illegal practices.

Jeff assists many business owners from not getting “ripped off” and gets great satisfaction when fraudsters are caught by good implementation of systems and procedures!
Jeff is happy to send you a free E-book so if you are interested you can contact him at www.prestigesme.com.au.

SEMBA Facebook group can be joined here: 

Officeway Office National sponsor SEMBA. They are a business to business supplier of stationery and office furniture in Dandenong, Victoria. They go above and beyond for their clients. They can be found here: www.officeway.com.au

In this episode, I chat with business coach Lisa Newman Morris. 

Lisa was a world class competitive athlete (trampoline). She went on build a successful business as a "Step into LIfe" franchisee, winning multiple awards. Her passion to bring out the best in herself and others lead her to her business consultancy business. 
Lisa Newman Morris walks her talk, and has achieved her success through consistency, discipline and determination and is a brilliant coach to guide others in business.

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SEMBA is sponsored by Office National Dandenong, a business to business supplier of stationery and office furniture.

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This interview is absolutely fascinating. We chat with the team at HR Staff and Stuff and learn how to make the most out of your business' most valuable resource. Your staff.