Illawarra Business News- ?Putting Your Business In The Spotlight?

What’s In It For You?

Illawarra Business News assists in promoting local small businesses from Helensburgh in the north to Nowra in the south and across to the Southern Highlands.

The primary goal of this site is to interview local business owners and share their stories and ideas with other small businesses in the Illawarra region.

Being in small business can get a bit lonely at times and it often helps to swap tips and strategies with other like minded people. Reading about other business owners and learning from their success...and their mistakes...can often save you many hours of frustration and increase your profits by tens of thousands of dollars.

The aim of Illawarra Business News is to help foster and assist local business owners to learn from, and network with, other businesses in the region so that we may all profit from each other’s combined business knowledge.

Conducting interviews with business owners like yourself and highlighting your story will help to boost your profile throughout the local business community so that you will be seen as an authority in your industry.

Having your story and your photo in front of your potential customers and other business owners is invaluable and will give you what all business owners want and need...exposure to new markets.

This is a free service which will be promoted extensively through Social Media, Business Networking events and my own personal business contact list.

I hope that you will get on board and promote the idea to your business contacts as well.

So, What’s In It For Me?

Well, I believe in creating Win/Win/Win situations.

I interview you so that you get excellent free exposure for your business.
You give me great content for my Blog.
Small Business visitors get quality information.
I get more traffic and people begin to check out my Small Business services.
Some of these people see value in my services and become new clients.

If you have an interesting story to tell about your business or if you would just like to pass on some of your best marketing, sales or customer service tips to other small business owners, I’d love to interview you.  Just go to www.IllawarraBusinessNews.com.au for more information and to share more captivating stories that will be a stepping stone for more success in the future.

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Illawarra Business News- ?Employees Behaving Badly?

Ever since leaving school 20 years ago, Yvonne Walker has been involved in Human Relations. And it still remains her passion. So much so that she has turned her passion for HR into a business where she deals with bullying and harassment in the workplace or, as Yvonne puts it, “employees behaving badly”. Her primary role is to help businesses to comply with existing legislation.

Commencing on a BHP Steelworks cadetship for 3 years, Yvonne studied Psychology and Management at the University of Wollongong before transferring to Newcastle Steelworks for 2 years in the mid 1990s. During this period she completed her Bachelor of Arts degree with a Psychology major at the University of Newcastle in 1995.

A second transfer, this time to Port Headland in January 1996, saw Yvonne working for Boodarie Iron for 3 and a half years.

During this period Yvonne was involved in the setup of the HBI Plant which processed iron ore.

Over the next 2 years, Yvonne ran a women’s refuge and then a service station in the remote Pilbara region of Western Australia. She also started her own HR business which, unfortunately, was not as successful as it should have been. As Yvonne tells it, “the market was not big enough” so she decided to return to Wollongong where she landed an HR position with Port Kembla Coal from 2001 to 2003 when the company closed down.

For the next 7 years Yvonne worked for Transfield Services, firstly as HR Manager for Bluescope Steel Alliance where she was responsible for 400 employees. Later, she became HR Manager for the Industrial and Defence Business Unit where she had responsibility for sites across NSW, Queensland and New Zealand.

In November 2010, armed with an extensive background in HR and OH&S, combined with studies in law, training and assessment, and an intimate knowledge of the business environment in the Illawarra, Yvonne made the decision to go into business for a second time.

She began her new business with short term Bid Writing Contracts for people she had previously worked with.

This has led her to a steady stream of referral based work as an HR consultant. In this role, Yvonne advises Management on their obligations and risk minimisation regarding employment arrangements and the law surrounding bullying and harassment. Preventing employees from behaving badly is no easy task, but one that Yvonne really enjoys.

I asked Yvonne where most of her business comes from these days. Her reply was that “all of my business comes through referrals. I work with people I’ve previously worked with or people that they refer to me.” This comes as no surprise to me because Yvonne actively networks with other business people in the Illawarra and presents herself as a very professional person.

Yvonne has two recommendations for business owners or those who are thinking of going into business.

Yvonne’ Business Tip Number 1: Make sure you use a Computer Technician to set up your Back Up systems. Losing all of your information can be disastrous.

Yvonne’s Business Tip Number 2: Always trust The Law of Reciprocity. The more you invest in helping other people now, the better it will be for you in the future.

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