Dynamic Business Podcast

The newest podcast episode on Dynamic Business interviews Monica Watt, Chief Human Resource Officer at ELMO Cloud HR & Payroll, where she shares her knowledge and expertise in navigating the new workplace learning, which has been heavily influenced by the COVID-19 impacts.

Have you ever struggled with cash flow as a result of late payments to your small business? We know this is an ongoing issue for small business owners, and so in today’s podcast that’s really what we are focussed on.

We are going through the top tips to achieve a healthy cash flow and healthy relationships with your suppliers and customers, to ensure payment terms are met and that there is ultimately less risk for your business. 

Today on the Dynamic Business Podcast we are excited to bring you an in depth talk on Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and what you can do to help yourself in those Google rankings. 

As a small business, it is often hard to compete with the larger players and bigger brands, as it's impossible to match their budget and spending. However, as Andreas Dzumla explains in this podcast episode, there are a few examples of small businesses turning their SEO right around (to more than a 100% increase in traffic!) and a few key strategies you can employ (as of today!) that will make huge difference to your numbers - both audience wise and revenue wise.

Andreas is the co-founder and co-CEO of Longtail UX, which is a Software as a Service startup. Longtail UX helps businesses to connect their customers to search items in just one click, returning an accurate Return On Investment on SEO and SEM.

Today our guest is Grant Emanuel, who is the Marketing Director of the Chamberlain Group – which is the world’s largest manufacturer of garage door, commercial door and gate openers.

In November 2018, during a Sydney storm, the Chamberlain Group’s head office in Australia flooded – with the equivalent volume of water in a 25m swimming pool.

Not only was there extensive water damage, the ceilings collapsed and everything inside was destroyed. Within 72 hours, the 40 plus member Chamberlain team were back up and running.

The disaster challenged and changed the Chamberlain team for the better.

Grant was part of the team responsible for the decisions around this. So today we’re going to talk about how they responded so effectively.

With many businesses dealing with natural disaster across Australia at the moment, we hope that this is going to be a really helpful discussion.

Elissa Dwyer is Human Resources Director at the Heart Research Institute; one of Australia’s leading cardiovascular research facilities. Of course, it still operates as a business that needs to see success, and one of its main identifiable struggles is attracting and retaining women in senior roles.

We talk about how the HRI have had to tailor their HR programmes to specifically address this issue and we delve into how exactly they do that. As the HR team is quite small, as is the case within lots of small to medium sized businesses, they look externally for the best strategies and rely on knowledge from outside of the organisation.

As well as this, we talk about achieving a work life balance for your employees, wellbeing specifically and achieving a great pipeline of talent and new hires.

Our guest is Fred Harrison, who is the CEO of Ritchies Supermarkets.

We talk about how the brand has made it all this way to become the longest serving supermarket in Australia, the importance of customers and community and the industry more largely.

Fred started out working for Ritchies 45 years ago as a trolley boy, so it’s safe to say he has a lot of knowledge on the company!

The supermarket celebrates the 150 year milestone this year, and they are looking to use old tactics to bring an exciting future.

Today our guest is Jack Bowcott, who is the co-founder of goki, which was up until recently called Tipi – a hostel-focused technology company.

goki provides tech solutions to hostels exclusively, enabling guest to check-in, download their keys, meet with guests, browse local experiences and much more.

Jack founded the company in 2014 and has recently received a $3 million (US Dollars) investment from Hostelworld, which has allowed them to move in to Dublin and London.

As we discuss in the podcast, Jack founded the company under the name Tipi and has pivoted the direction of the business in order to achieve the success they are currently seeing.

The investment and partnership with Hostelworld, which came about from simple networking and word of mouth, has enabled them to gain more than capital; they now have access to more support which proved critical in their repositioning of the brand, product and service offering across mediums.

We ask Jack about the re-brand, the investment and generally learn more on his journey of founding the company.

Today our podcast guest is Adam Westwood, who is Head of Operations at Roam – a digital product design studio.

Adam’s role focuses on leading and growing the Roam Sydney team. He manages a team of product designers, developers and product managers to deliver for a whole host of clients.

Roam generally believes that organisations are overlooking the vital role leadership plays when it comes to having an innovation culture. As an innovation studio, you could say that they are well-placed to discuss the topic!

In this podcast we cover how business leaders can create innovation in their teams, and why it is important.

Our editor, Loren Webb, asks Adam for a summary of his best tips on this!

Jason Lucchese is a seasoned public servant with more than 19 years of experience executing large-scale government programs including the introduction of SuperStream and Single Touch Payroll.

Currently ATO Assistant Commissioner and Single Touch Payroll Program Lead, Jason works closely with the employers, payroll service providers and intermediaries to support the introduction of STP.

We aim to clarify STP for you, and give you the most reliable information possible by taking it back to the STP basics.

Discussing why the ATO decided to bring the system in the first place helps us to understand the benefits for small businesses, and so far the feedback of the 70% or so of businesses that are signed up has been positive.

There are some fears amongst small employers that STP is perhaps difficult to use, however as Jason explains, it has been designed to actually make lives easier.

Throughout the podcast, we ask Jason how small business owners can get educated on STP, what options will suit them best and the fact that although the deadline has passed, there is still time to sign up.

Today our guest is Roby Sharon-Zipser who is the co-Founder, CEO and the Executive Director, at hipages.

hipages is the place you go to for hiring a trusted tradie – as a website and as an app.

The company was founded in a garage 15 years ago by Roby and his friend David.

With a network of 135,000 professional tradies nationwide, hipages generates more than $2.4 billion worth of jobs for Australian tradies annually.

Hipages continues to go from strength to strength… Today we’re talking about how Roby has built the company to where it is now, the recent growth its seen and how they are encouraging the continuing success.