How 'Live Online 'works...

Live Online workshops and seminars are an absolute boon for the busy business owner. No need to travel to another location which can sometimes mean a trip of an hour or more, you can get inolved in a workshop or attend a seminar right from your place of business or even from home. It's a huge time saver and it saves money as well...

How does it work?

From the users perspective it couldn't be simpler, a straightforward set of 4 steps is all it takes:

What do you need?

To take part in an online event, there really isn't much that you will need:

That's it!

You will notice that we also include an optional DVD audio/video presentation of each our workshops, it's a great way of refreshing your memory and can be very handy to pop into your computer or DVD player and just take a quick run through.

We also provide other documents for each event which you are able to download, we provide that link during the event.

Ready? Here's the current list and dates of each event just click where indicated:

View calendar of Events click here...

Survive & Thrive Business Planning

We take a very different approach to the whole notion of creating a business plan and that's one of the reasons why when you register for this workshop, we insist that you view a very special video that we have created before you attend the event. It covers what no other business planning course does and in our view no real business plan can be constructed without this special aspect being fully understood and applied.

Creating a meaningful business plan is not just a matter of filling in a template. Yes, it's good to have an example to work from but when you get right down to it, no one has a business idea quite like yours. We take you step by step through the process and at it's conclusion you will have the knowledge of just how you can create a business plan tailor made for your business.

Available: Live Online 1.5 Hours

When: 11.00 a.m to 12.30 p.m. Tuesday 24th November 2009

Believe & Achieve Sales and Marketing Planning

As with our Business Planning workshops, we take a very different view to others. We include a detailed Sales and Marketing Plan as a combined element of the overall business plan and treat it seriously enough to give it it's own workshop title. Your plan has to be both Believable & Achievable if you are to succeed.

There is a lot more to sales planning than putting in place a series of numbers. There are questions you need to ask regarding where and how you will make sales, who and where the competition is, just which products or services you have will sell and in which market. We have included some very simple yet highly effective tools to help you hone in on just where you will get the best results for your business.

Available: Live Online 1.5 Hours

When: 11.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. Wednesday 25th November 2009

Sell! Sell! Sell! The Art & Science of Selling for the business owner

It is estimated that more than 96% of home based, micro and small business owners have little or no formal understanding of how to sell.

It would be equally true to say that if they did know just how the sales process works, they could look forward to doubling or more the number of their current sales.

Our workshop focuses right in on the basics and shows you the techniques used by professional sales people the world over. It's not rocket science and you will feel increasingly confident the more you put these ideas into practice. Furthermore you'll get to see the results on your bottom line...

Available: Live Online 1.5 Hours

When: 11.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. Monday 23rd November 2009

Bootstrap Marketing. When cash is tight and there are no funds for marketing, there is a way forward...

There are not too many business owners who haven't experienced what it's like to be short on cash. Yet they still have to somehow find the ways and the means to continue reaching out to their market to ensure that their cash flow doesn't suffer further.

In this workshop we will look at a numerous ways in which you can carry out low cost/no cost marketing activities that actually work and have been proven to deliver results.

Complete with examples and free tools, this workshop will give you the knowledge of how to carry on marketing even when the dollars are scarce...

Available: Live Online 1.5 Hours

When: 11.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. Thursday 26th November 2009

This very popular workshop will show you how you can create your own promotional video clip quickly and simply and then upload it to You Tube within minutes.

Step by step we will walk you through the process and show you how to write a script, prepare a story board, shoot and then edit your video including adding special effects. You'll be surprised how simple it all is and the great results that you can achieve.

Available: Live Online 1.5 Hours

When: 11.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. Monday 30th November 2009

Marketing Technologies. Get up to speed with new, low cost/no cost marketing technologies...

It seems that just about every day there's a new piece of technology around that promises the world to the small business owner. But which ones can you safely take on and which should you avoid?

In this workshop we show you what's currently available, including some free to use tools, as well as help you decide which offers you the most real value and just how you can put them to use in your business. All that plus how to make sure you keep up to date as your business progresses..

Available: Live Online 1.5 Hours

When: 11.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. Tuesday 1st. December 2009

Business Magnetics. A plain English guide to Email marketing practices and tools...

No, Email marketing is not dead, in fact it's finding a new lease of life thanks to recent innovations in news feeds and other technologies designed to improve the relationship you have with your customers.

The facts are that email still delivers more in revenue than many of the other technologies like SMS, Instant messaging and more.

In this workshop we will show you how to put together an email marketing campaign, how to write newsletters and get more subscribers to your newsletters, how to get more people to open your emails and how to make sure you don't fall foul of the Australian Spam Act!

Available: Live Online 1.5 Hours

When: 6.00 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. Tuesday 1st December 2009

BYO Website Part 1. Take away the smoke and mirrors from marketing your business on the web...

One of the major concerns held by business owners is their lack of knowledge of things 'Technical'. Time and again you hear horror stories of how businesses have paid a fortune out for web site to be developed and marketed only to find that their investment delivered nothing.

In this workshop we de-mystify the web and marketing techniques that you can use right now and many are free.We'll also show you how to specify what you want your web site to do and even what it should look like. All done in a very hands on, practical and non-technical way.

Available: Live Online 1.5 Hours

When:6.00 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. Monday 30th. November 2009

BYO Web site Part 2. Simple, free tools to build, manage and edit your very own web site...

Using the very latest in easy to use web site creation tools, in this workshop we will show you just how you can create and then manage your own web site. No more paying out hundreds if not thousands of dollars for web site developers to handle your site, you will be shown how to do this yourself.

Once again we use a very practical and hands on approach and before you attend this event we will send you a special video which will show you some simple steps that will allow you to create your own site right on your own PC or laptop. At the workshop itself we will show you where to find low cost hosting and then how to load your site onto the web and edit it...

Available: Live Online 1.5 Hours

When: 11.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. Thursday 3rd.December 2009

Social Media. How to make the most of the booming trend in social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and more...

It is said that if Facebook was a country it would have the sixth largest population in the world. That's a powerful medium in anyone's language.

In this workshop we will show you through Facebook and Twitter as well as some other lesser known sites that you will be able to put  to good use to market your business for little or no cost.

Again it's a very practical session, non-technical and easy to follow.

Available: Live Online 1.5 Hours

When: 11.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. Wednesday 2nd December 2009

Passion, Power & Purpose. The Home Based Business Start Up Guide...

If you want a successful home based or any other kind of business for that matter, the common ingredients are Passion, Power and Purpose. Take any one of those away from the equation and you won't have much left to work with and your chances of success will be greatly diminished.

Having said that, the really good nes is that if you plan on opening your own Home Based Business then you are twice as likely to succeed. Good odds.

In our workshop we will walk you through a series of checklists, we'll discuss what things you can do to minimise disruption to your home life, we'll point you at some sites where you can find out more about legislation and give you hints, tips and tricks that you can use to help you start and grow your business.

Available: Live Online 1.5 Hours

When: 6.00 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. Wednesday 2nd December 2009

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