Building long term relationships is the single most important business activity. Forging long term affiliations leads companies and individuals to becoming unstoppable market leaders. In the current business environment healthy, mutual and growing partnerships are needed now more than ever.
This opening paragraph sums up the goal of ‘Infusion’ – a business networking organisation set to bridge the gap within the Australia and Asian greater business world. Infusion organises and promotes business owners and professionals from all cultural backgrounds to meet and exchange valuable inside information, and build brands that can withstand the growing competition that is transpiring across borders.
I am honoured that I have been invited back to talk at Infusions First networking event for 2009, about the importance of cross cultural networking and the impacts that networking has on growing your business, and growing yourself. Here are just some of the points I will be raising about the importance and impact of networking at Infusions November events.
· Networking allows you to not only promote your products and services to others, it also allows you to educate people about the unique aspects of your business in a friendly approach that can ignite important long term relationships.
· It has long been the backbone and instigator of fund raising and important business partnerships that most successful entrepreneurs will tell you is one of the most important aspects of starting any new business.
· Business networking allows you to tap into a synergistic business mastermind group, where business ideas are shared and new opportunities are discussed.
I was very fortunate when I started my first business as I had a wonderful friend Dayo Sowunmi, Managing Director of The Anode Group, a successful businessman and entrepreneur in his own right, that I could lean for advice, support and guidance. Dayo taught me many things and was fundamental in helping me find my feet in the early days. But there were times when I had to invent new ways of meeting the right people, and it was through business networking and socialising that I can attribute the success born from these relationships.
Unfortunately, organisations like Infusion were harder to find when I was starting out and I would have certainly leapt at an opportunity to join such a group of businesses and individuals. Even if it was simply for support, to be around people who understood what it was like to be so passionate about your own business idea – because lets face it, we all have our critics when it comes to stepping out of the square and trying something different.
I invite you to come along at 6.30pm Tuesday 3rd February 2008 at Atlantic Investment Conference Centre, 1st Floor, 446 Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000 and join me and other successful business people, entrepreneurs, financiers, government officials and great thinkers for drinks and a chat in an informal and relaxed setting. Invitations to Infusion events will only be sent to listed members. It’s free to become a member with Infusion.
I also invite you to list your thoughts and experiences on how business networking and fostering business relationships has impacted your business, and the many ways you can achieve success through business networking.
Click for event information and to Reserve your tickets
Orphan Angels
As
part of iBidAM.com’s community awareness and action campaigns, I would like to
talk about something that is very close to my heart. As a parent earnestly waiting on the
international adoption and permanent care list, a foster care parent sometimes
with up to 7 extra children in my home, I would like to talk to you about a
wonderful group I sincerely care for called Orphan Angels.
Orphan Angels was foundered by
Deborra-lee Furness, and advocates for reforms through all available channels
to provide children in need with nurturing homes. They wish to raise awareness
of the global crisis of abandoned children, participate in creating a pro
adoption community & illustrate how anyone can transform the life of a
child in need. They strive to create an
opportunity for each child to fulfill their birthright and realise their
potential.
So I believe it’s now
time to…… TALK ABOUT ADOPTION !
Many
Australians have been touched by adoption, permanent care or foster care. Most
Australians know someone who has been in one of these situations, who has
adopted or fostered or even has had to give up a child into one of these
systems.
Adoption & foster care has touched us all at some time. However, for too
long it has been poorly understood and stigmatised. It’s time for us all to become adoption
advocates and acknowledge past practices, debunk adoption myths, educate
friends and family about ethical transparent adoption.
With a little preparation each one of us can do something...have one
conversation, discuss one article or one story within adoption awareness week,
that will inspire & create greater awareness of adoption, inter-country
adoption & foster care in Australia.
Please
feel free to contact iBidAM, post a comment or get in contact with the organisers
directly if you can contribute in anyway to raise the awareness of adoption and
foster care within Australia.
Email Contact : enquiries@orphanangels.com.au
http://www.orphanangels.com.au
National Adoption
Awareness Week - approaching ( Nov 17- 23, 2008 ).
http://www.adoptionawarenessweek.com.au/
Louise Schultze &
son Lochie Graham
Building long term relationships is the single most important business
activity. Forging long term affiliations
leads companies and individuals to becoming unstoppable market leaders. In the
current business environment healthy, mutual and growing partnerships are
needed now more than ever.
This opening paragraph sums up the goal of ‘Infusion’ – a business
networking organisation set to bridge the gap within the Australia and
Asian greater business world. Infusion
organises and promotes business owners and professionals from all cultural
backgrounds to meet and exchange valuable inside information, and build brands
that can withstand the growing competition that is transpiring across borders.
I am honoured that I have been invited to talk at Infusions November networking
events about the importance of cross cultural networking and the impacts that
networking has on growing your business, and growing yourself. Here are just some of the points I will be
raising about the importance and impact of networking at Infusions November
events.
·
Networking allows you to not only promote your
products and services to others, it also allows you to educate people about the
unique aspects of your business in a friendly approach that can ignite
important long term relationships.
·
It has long been the backbone and instigator of
fund raising and important business partnerships that most successful
entrepreneurs will tell you is one of the most important aspects of starting
any new business.
·
Business networking allows you to tap into a
synergistic business mastermind group, where business ideas are shared and new
opportunities are discussed.
I was very fortunate when I started my first business as I had a wonderful
friend Dayo Sowunmi, Managing Director of The Anode Group, a successful
businessman and entrepreneur in his own right, that I could lean for advice,
support and guidance. Dayo taught me
many things and was fundamental in helping me find my feet in the early
days. But there were times when I had to
invent new ways of meeting the right people, and it was through business
networking and socialising that I can attribute the success born from these
relationships.
Unfortunately,
organisations like Infusion were harder to find when I was starting out and I
would have certainly leapt at an opportunity to join such a group of businesses
and individuals. Even if it was simply
for support, to be around people who understood what it was like to be so
passionate about your own business idea – because lets face it, we all have our
critics when it comes to stepping out of the square and trying something
different.
I invite you to come along on the at 6.30pm Wednesday 26th
November 2008 at The
Red Humming Bird at Lonsdale and Russell Street in Melbourne and join me and other successful
business people, entrepreneurs, financiers, government officials and great
thinkers for drinks and a chat in an informal and relaxed setting. Invitations to Infusion events will only be sent
to listed members. It’s free to become a
member with Infusion.
I also invite you to list your thoughts and experiences on how business
networking and fostering business relationships has impacted your business, and
the many ways it can be achieved.
Click
for event information & to reserve your tickets.
iBidAM is dedicated
to causes which raise awareness of the incredible needs that face our children
and our future. iBidAM also adopts the
ideal that we are far more powerful in creating change by working together than
working alone. And while talking
about important issues educates and causes awareness, it is important to
remember that a part of being aware issues a responsibility to act. iBidAM.com and its Directors
are dedicated to acting on their awareness, and will continue through example,
to educate others on the important issues facing us now and in the future.
We will be sharing
with you in the future, plights in which iBidAM and our Directors believe are
detrimental to the future of mankind. We
will be achieving this in 4 ways, by supporting,
contributing, raising awareness for and taking action to create change,
with a main focus on 2 important areas that we believe are the most important
issues facing mankind.
iBidAM.com’s dedication to Children in need
Over my fire place I
have no pictures of my family. No famous
paintings. I do have one simple black
and white photograph of a child running bare-footed down a sand dune towards
the ocean - free, happy and alive with spirit.
The caption below says “A hundred years from now it will not matter how
much money was in my bank account, the sort of house I lived in, what kind of
clothes I wore or the kind of car I drove, but the world may be different
because I was important in the life of a child”. iBidAM believes the single most important
thing we can do for our future is to invest our love, time and wisdom into our
children by:
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Supporting new legislation, ideas, organisations and
implementations that raise the standard of education and living for All
Australian children, and children all over the world.
-
Contributing financially and through service to charities
and organizations dedicated to making a difference in the lives of our
children.
-
Raising
the awareness of the fundamental
rights that all children have a loving family, good education, and access
to healthy living, by promoting programs and organisations that work
towards these goals.
-
Taking
Action by actually participating
in and “Being the change we wish to see in the world”.
iBidAM.com’s dedication to the Environment
Al Gore said that
the single most threatening thing to mankind is what man is doing to its
environment. This is reflected by
scientists and environment professionals all over the world, and has been
repeated for many, many years. A repetition
that has been squandered and rejected continually by politicians and corporate
entities for a long time, in fear they would loose money if they did something
about it. Now the cat is out of the bag
and we are now AWARE, that WE, yes WE, are responsible for potentially
destroying our planet. I would like to
think my son could look at me in the future and say my mum did everything she
could. Because now, ignorance can no
longer be our excuse! iBidAM will be
dedicated to supporting important environmental causes by:
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Supporting new legislation, ideas, causes, organisations
and implementations that raises the standard of environmental &
natural living and reduces the carbon footprint for All people and
businesses within Australia
and all over the world.
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Contributing financially and through service to charities
and organizations dedicated to making a difference through innovation and
education in reducing mans environmental impact.
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Raising
the awareness of the simple
steps individuals can make that can have long lasting impacts, and the fundamental
rights that all living creatures have in equally sharing this planet, by
promoting programs and organizations that work towards these goals.
-
Taking
Action by actually participating
in and “Being the change we wish to see in the world”.
It is my goal that iBidAM
is not only dedicated to innovation in the Advertising & Marketing industry,
but is above all dedicated to impacting the world for our future, and the
future of our children. You will be
seeing iBidAM.com and its staff in many ways, over time, involved in bringing
about this change.
I believe it is
important that YOU are AWARE, that by supporting iBidAM you are supporting a
company who is dedicated to making a positive impact that goes beyond our
limits, benefits all and lasts forever.
Please feel free to
post discussions and ideas here on how you would like to see iBidAM impact the
world around you! We would love to hear
from you.
