Anyone can become a successful entrepreneur but the biggest and the best have some qualities in common that you might find surprising. Bernadette Schwerdt speaks to Andre Eikmeir, cofounder of the online wine retailer Vinomofo reveals his secrets of entrepreneurial success and details the highlights, the low lights, and everything in between. https://www.vinomofo.com.au https://www.bernadetteschwerdt.com.au 

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How do you come up with a great idea for a startup? How do you choose the right idea to run with? How do you come up with an idea if you don’t have any ideas to start with? In this episode, Bernadette Schwerdt speaks to a man who knows how to predict what the future holds and how to choose ideas that have a greater chance of succeeding - Morris Miselowski. He’s one of Australia’s most sought-after futurists and he’ll reveal where the next hot spots are, the top tech-tools you should use to test if your idea has merit and a fool-proof formula for bringing your idea to life.

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Lots of people have great ideas for startups, but few actually ever bring those ideas to fruition. One man who did take his idea from concept to completion is Morgan Coleman, the founder of Vets on Call. Bernadette Schwerdt talks to Morgan about the Lean Methodology principle and how he followed it to the letter, creating his MVP and a few weird looks at his local dog park in the process. 

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Choosing a good web developer is one of THE most important decisions a startup entrepreneur makes. So, where do you go to find a good web developer, and how can you tell if they’re any good? What questions reveal their true ability to deliver on their promises and how do you hold them accountable if you don’t like what you get back? Bernadette Schwerdt speaks to Jim Stewart from StewArt Media, a web guru and the go-to tech specialist for many of Australia’s top online businesses, for the inside tips on how to choose the right web developer for your business. 

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Creating a video that gets watched by 50 million people is every startup’s dream, but how do you make that happen? Is it good luck, good marketing or a bit of both? Someone who knows how to create videos that go viral is Dave Christison from Riot Content, the creator of some of the world’s most widely-watched viral videos. Dave reveals to Bernadette Schewerdt the formulas he uses to write, direct and seed his viral videos to achieve maximum impact and how you can do it for your business too.

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One of the biggest challenges most new startups face is finding customers. In a crowded marketplace filled with cashed up competitors, how does a newbie, with no marketing budget and no word of mouth get found and get sales? Social influencers, that’s how. Danielle Lewis is the cofounder of Scrunch a social influencer platform that connects small businesses with thousands of social influencers. She speaks with Bernadette Schwerdt about how to find and capitalise on the modern currency of social influence.   

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Did you know that there are people out there who will PAY you $25,000 dollars to build a startup? That’s right. Free money. But that’s not all they’ll do. They’ll provide you with mentors, get you meetings with people you’d never have access to, help you find customers, introduce you to investors and tech partners and much more. Who are these people and how can you get in on the action? Trevor Townsend, the cofounder of Startupbootcamp tells us how you can get on-board the Accelerator train, what they look for in a startup, what they want in return and how to pitch your startup story to win a coveted place in their programme.

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You’ve got a great idea for a startup but you lack one important ingredient. Money. Moolah. Cash. Someone who knows how to find money – and lots of it – is Owen Hereford. As a former investment banker with Goldman Sachs and an angel investor in multiple startups, Owen knows where the gold is buried and in this podcast he’s going to tell you where to find it. Whether you’re looking for seed capital or some serious money to launch your IPO, if you’re keen to access ‘other people’s money’, this podcast is for you. 

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The ultimate guide to launching and growing a business online.

You’ve got a crazy idea, a hobby, a business or special expertise. You want to take it online, and you want to it be a money-making success. But what do you do next? Best-selling author and digital marketing specialist Bernadette Schwerdt (How to Build an Online Business and Secrets of Online Entrepreneurs) uncovers the inside tips and tricks that Australia’s most successful online entrepreneurs use to build their multi-million dollar businesses. This series will help you identify the best business ideas to pursue, guide you on how to set it up and give you the strategies to grow it quickly using low-cost tools. For those with existing businesses, you’ll learn how to maximise your online impact and access the little-known but powerful tools and technologies the top disruptors use to create a global presence.

Featuring interviews with some of Australia’s most successful disruptors, Bernadette reveals the underlying patterns common to all successful online businesses – what they did right, what they did wrong, what they would do differently and the short cuts to building an online business that only the successful know.

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