About Mybusinessnow

Mybusinessnow is a business training, coaching, consulting and strategising "hub".  Working with small, medium, franchise and even large businesses, identifying where they need help and focus and then providing them with tools through training, strategies, solutions and support to give them every chance of success and real growth.

With over 33 year's experience in running my own successful small businesses, the later for almost 25 years, with an international franchise chain, and after selling continuing to consult to the franchisor for a further 2 and a half years in supporting their company owned franchises around Australia. Checkout the pictures above (yes there was more hair then!) for a brief outline of my business background.

• I started my first business around 1976 (I was 17) when one day I decided to go into the coffee table business. I made six, sold three at the local markets that weekend, came home and never did it again. It proved you can sell anything once. Anything! But do it over and over, and in big enough quantities and at a high enough profit margin, is another thing altogether. But yes, anything can sell!
• We started our real business life in 1987, purchased a picture framing business on the Gold Coast, Qld, Australia, improved systems, manufacturing, rebranded, better marketing, developing a CRM program to maintain and build relationships with existing clients and identified new product opportunities that massively grew the business over the next five years and then sold, to buy our next business. We built JV relationships with other local business to combine efforts in branding and marketing that grew all aspects of the businesses.
• Our second business was the Bartercard Brisbane West franchise purchased in November 1993. A greenfield franchise region building it into one of the largest franchises in the country, employing more than a dozen people at any one time, finalist in FCA franchise of the year awards, winner of the "Super Eight" franchises, number of staff winning both sales and service national awards and going onto becoming one of the longest serving franchisees in Bartercard and then selling back to Bartercard (22 years is long enough) in 2015. We survived the 2011 flood, where 2 metres of water totally destroyed our office. Everything (like everyone's property) was thrown out on the street) We found a new office (at higher ground) bought new equipment and desks for the team, farmed our team out to another office and were able to keep working and  after four weeks we were back operating out of our new location at Monier Rd, Darra. 
• MyBusinessNow began in late 2018 running monthly business workshops in Brisbane, and now operate from our base on the Sunshine Coast, Qld.

I have worked closely with thousands of SMEs around the country in support of their image, branding, marketing, as well as sales, service and staff recruitment and management as well as planning.
 

Dealing with profitable SME businesses, I know what makes businesses successful and what doesn’t. There are too many common themes, too many common oversights (mistakes), and too many re-occurring lessons learn't that need to be shared.
 

Throughout my business focused career, I now know what works well, what doesn't and what needs to be done, to grow a business easier, better, faster and more profitably.
 

As well as recruiting, training and managing both sales and customer service teams, I have worked with thousands of small to medium sized business over the years and I have simply seen far too many 'potentially successful small businesses go down, simply because they couldn't see where they were going wrong or weren't doing. 

The fundamentals behind Mybusinessnow are simple, quick and easy training, that develops skills and confidence that make the entire process of building businesses that actually grow, uncomplicated and importantly, eliminate the overwhelm that most business owners feel. We have developed a business training program and a series of business tools, checklists and guides, that make it simpler than ever before!
 

Mybusinessnow, ReThinkBusinessGrowth, and SideHustleStartup, are all about business growth, by attracting as many clients as possible, getting them back often and then referring others to do the same. 

It's not complicated, in fact it's easy! It's just not simple, and if you don't know what you don't know, then the success you want, may never happen. 

To me business success and growth is simple. I've seen it and I've done it and seen businesses and professionals succeed because they did what was needed, but I've also seen to many fail, because they didn't.