Loving Profit – Melanie Miller

In this episode Melanie Miller talks about Loving Profit, sharing insights into how to create a business that is Profitable + Liveable + Loveable.

Melanie Miller

Melanie Miller is a lover of the unsexy side of business. After breaking up with the corporate world of soul-sucking employers she became a business coach over 8 years ago focusing on dishing up the hard unsexy truths of business to women. After losing her mum to cancer, she realised how short life is, and decided to go all out on creating a lifestyle business driven by her passion to help women create profitable, liveable and lovable businesses both off and online. Today she has a thriving online business called The Profit Lovers, has developed a crazy fun community of over 8000 female entrepreneurs and is living nicely in what she calls her business “sweet spot”.

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Pricing Psychology: Jon Manning

In this episode Jon Manning from Pricing Prophets and Sans Prix talks about pricing psychology, sharing with us his insights into the psychology of pricing and the strategies and tactics that would best suit your business.

Jon Manning

Jon Manning has spent most of his career pricing products and services, in both the corporate world, as well as advising clients via his consulting businesses Sans Prix and Pricing Prophets. Over the last 12 years, Jon has completed dozens of major consulting projects for companies in the ASX200, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Fortune 100, the FTSE100 and the CAC Next20 stock market indices. In the process, he has generated millions of dollars in incremental revenue for clients in places such as the UK, USA, India, &Australia. He also works with dozens of start-ups and entrepreneurs each year.

Increasingly in demand as both a speaker and educator, Jon has spoken at over seventy conferences, workshops, educational institutions, webinars and other events across the Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and the UK. Between 2007 and 2009, he co-presented the “Pricing Strategy & Revenue Management”Executive Education Programme at Lancaster University Management School.

Jon holds a Bachelor of Business (Applied Economics) from Deakin University (Australia), a GraduateDiploma of Business (Management) from Monash University (Australia) and a Master of Arts (European Studies), from the University of West London (formerly Thames Valley University) in the UK.

He is a member of the Professional Pricing Society, and his articles have been published in The Journal of Professional Pricing, The Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management, The Pricing Advisor, The Wiglaf Journal,SmartCompany.com.au, LeadingCompany.com.au and the ANZ Small Business Hub . 

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Tax Time Preparation: Amanda Newton

In this episode Amanda Newton talks about tax time preparation, sharing with us some valuable advice on how you can better prepare yourself for the 2015/16 taxation period, as well as the year ahead.

Amanda Newton

Amanda Newton is a Director and Head of Client Experience at Negotiis – Business Advisors and Accountants. With over a decade of filing tax returns and applying business improvements for clients Amanda offers a fresh perspective to the traditional accounting space.

In fact, Amanda is a rare bread of Accountant, as she is able to combine her Masters of Accounting with her bachelor’s degree in Marketing and Communications to help small business owners and managers reach their full potential.

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