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Working From Anywhere - Securing your business against disaster and business disruption - Check-in

Accountability week
It’s time to stop, review, recap and keep yourself accountable. Today we review everyone’s progress with securing their business. We will check in on where everyone is at with moving to the cloud and their password security.
Today is a day we all work together to support and encourage.

What is the program about?
The Anywhere, Any Time, Any Device Program has been put together to guide business owners through the step by step process of securing their business against disaster as well as future-proofing their businesses and opening up opportunities to re imagine how they do business.

How the program works
This program is a mix of presentations, workshops, hands on step step online tutorials, one on one and collaboration sessions. You will have the support of small business cloud specialist Andy Willis from Working From Anywhere throughout the program, both onsite and remotely.

Full Program Overview
Week #1- 4 Mar - Securing your business against disaster and business disruption
Week #2 -11 Mar - Working in the cloud
Week# 3 - 18 Mar - Moving all your data into the cloud
Week# 4 - 25 Mar - Securing your digital world
Week #5 -1 Apr - Accountability week
Week #6 - 8 Apr - Getting to Inbox Zero every day
Week #7 - 29 Apr - Collaboration from anywhere
Week #8 - 6 May - A complete recap and where to from here

Andy Willis
I run a successful business but I don’t have a permanent office. I’ve spent the majority of the past 5 Australian winters cycling and hiking in the French Alps, working on my business from there and immersing myself in the small French village community.

The rest of the year I spend in the small but beautiful coastal village of Tathra on the Far South Coast of NSW, Australia. Here I fit my work life around the surf, cycling or simply walking on the beach rather than the other way around.

Participants are welcome to attend for the morning workshop session only or take the opportunity to stay and collaborate with fellow business owners for the full day.

Andy Willis will be in attendance for the full day at the designated venue.

There will also be a limited number of individual one on one sessions with Andy available on each of the days by appointment.

You will get the most benefit from attending the full program, both from a learning and collaboration point of view.

PRIME your Business - TEST YOUR BUSINESS IDEA – (MANDATORY FOR APPLICATION TO ACTIVATE PROGRAM)

WHAT DOES YOUR BUSINESS LOOK LIKE AFTER THE RECENT BUSHFIRES AND NOW COVID-19?

DO YOU NEED TO TEST YOUR BUSINESS IDEA? HAVE YOU VALIDATED YOUR BUSINESS IDEA?

DO YOU WANT TO APPLY TO JOIN THE NEXT PROGRAM OFFERED AT THE BEGA VALLEY INNOVATION HUB?

This workshop has been specifically designed for early-stage startups, entrepreneurs and impact entrepreneurs to help refine and test their business idea before going to market, or re-launching after the recent bushfires. This is a core component of the Lean Startup methodology which is the build-measure-learn feedback loop. During this session, you’ll learn some tips and tricks to test and launch or re-launch a business idea in a capital-efficient way.

This workshop is designed to introduce the concepts that underpin the iAccelerate Phoenix program offered at the Bega Valley Innovation Hub and is a MANDATORY gateway to assist you in preparing an application for those interested in applying to Phoenix Accelerate Program at the Bega Valley Innovation Hub.

The purpose of this workshop: to give you the understanding and analysis framework necessary to test the viability of your business idea.

What will be covered in this workshop: What makes a business idea viable?

• Introduction to the iAccelerate business model cube
• How to identify different customer segments and personas – how to identify their jobs, gains, pains.
• Identifying the problem that you are solving
• Identifying the solution that you will create to remove this problem from your ideal customer’s life?
• Design accompanying products and services to add value
• Test your assumptions
• Introduction of the iAccelerate Growth canvas

​You will leave the workshop with a better understanding of your business’ value proposition design for you to add to your application for the Phoenix Activate Program.

If these date does not suit you can attend the next one HERE

Digital Readiness - Instagram Readiness 1 - Set up your Instagram Business Page

The Instagram Readiness Workshop is for anyone that wants to set up Instagram Business Account and complete your bio. Private 1-1 sessions are available for participants as required. Overview of how Instagram works incl. hashtags and the current socially driven opportunity. Instagram Account set up and understanding of the ‘Why’ and ‘How’ of Instagram.

Since the bushfire disasters began in our region in 2019, several socially driven opportunities to increase economic support have arisen such as #bringyouremptyesky, #buyfromthebush and #spendwiththem, which provide opportunities for local business owners to promote their products and services both Australia-wide and globally.

Some challenges that have arisen for many businesses, are the lack of an existing online presence with capacity to sell products and technical skills to employ such technology. Training and technical support can bridge these gaps and allow economic recovery for local businesses. This training will be provided by a combination of workshops and one-on-one support for business owners.

We have identified four key technical areas where training is required to engage with the aforementioned opportunities and each of these has it’s own session. Book in for each module if you want to participate in the complete module.

• Instagram Readiness
• Website Readiness
• eCommerce Readiness
• Facebook Readiness

This modules begins with an initial Digital Health Check session conducted to ascertain the business owner’s ability to fully engage with the training process.

At the end of this module businesses will be better equipped to participate in the aforementioned sales opportunities via online platforms, sell their products and stimulate local economic activity.

This module has been designed to suit business owners will have different levels of existing digital adoption. Workshops can be split and customised to meet the participants at their current level of need.

The Facilitator:

Natasha Berta has a Bachelor of Commerce with Majors in Interactive Marketing. She is super creative and works intuitively. She is a lover of systems that create ease.

Working From Anywhere - Securing your business against disaster and business disruption using Inbox Zero

Getting to Inbox Zero every day
How many emails have you got in your inbox right now? 10? 50? 100? 1,000? 5,000?
Email is one of the biggest drains of our time, it just keeps coming, inbox overwhelm is rife.
Today you will leave the room with ZERO emails in your inbox and a simple strategy and process that make sure you achieve this every day.
This strategy has been a life-changer for the business owners I work with at WFA.

What is the program about?
The Anywhere, Any Time, Any Device Program has been put together to guide business owners through the step by step process of securing their business against disaster as well as future-proofing their businesses and opening up opportunities to re imagine how they do business.

How the program works
This program is a mix of presentations, workshops, hands on step step online tutorials, one on one and collaboration sessions. You will have the support of small business cloud specialist Andy Willis from Working From Anywhere throughout the program, both onsite and remotely.

Full Program Overview
Week #1- 4 Mar - Securing your business against disaster and business disruption
Week #2 -11 Mar - Working in the cloud
Week# 3 - 18 Mar - Moving all your data into the cloud
Week# 4 - 25 Mar - Securing your digital world
Week #5 -1 Apr - Accountability week
Week #6 - 8 Apr - Getting to Inbox Zero every day
Week #7 - 29 Apr - Collaboration from anywhere
Week #8 - 6 May - A complete recap and where to from here

Andy Willis
I run a successful business but I don’t have a permanent office. I’ve spent the majority of the past 5 Australian winters cycling and hiking in the French Alps, working on my business from there and immersing myself in the small French village community.

The rest of the year I spend in the small but beautiful coastal village of Tathra on the Far South Coast of NSW, Australia. Here I fit my work life around the surf, cycling or simply walking on the beach rather than the other way around.

Participants are welcome to attend for the morning workshop session only or take the opportunity to stay and collaborate with fellow business owners for the full day.

Andy Willis will be in attendance for the full day at the designated venue.

There will also be a limited number of individual one on one sessions with Andy available on each of the days by appointment.

You will get the most benefit from attending the full program, both from a learning and collaboration point of view.

Digital Readiness - Instagram Readiness 2 - Creating Content for Instagram

The Instagram Readiness Workshop is for anyone that wants to create content for their business Instagram page. We will be looking at how to create images and video for Instagram using free tools. Explore the difference between Instagram feed and Instagram Stories and the importance of Stories for your Instagram profile. Private 1-1 sessions are available for participants as required.
you will leave with content created for Instagram feed and Stories.

Since the bushfire disasters began in our region in 2019, several socially driven opportunities to increase economic support have arisen such as #bringyouremptyesky, #buyfromthebush and #spendwiththem, which provide opportunities for local business owners to promote their products and services both Australia-wide and globally.

Some challenges that have arisen for many businesses, are the lack of an existing online presence with capacity to sell products and technical skills to employ such technology. Training and technical support can bridge these gaps and allow economic recovery for local businesses. This training will be provided by a combination of workshops and one-on-one support for business owners.

We have identified four key technical areas where training is required to engage with the aforementioned opportunities and each of these has it’s own session. Book in for each module if you want to participate in the complete module.

• Instagram Readiness
• Website Readiness
• eCommerce Readiness
• Facebook Readiness

This modules begins with an initial Digital Health Check session conducted to ascertain the business owner’s ability to fully engage with the training process.

At the end of this module businesses will be better equipped to participate in the aforementioned sales opportunities via online platforms, sell their products and stimulate local economic activity.

This module has been designed to suit business owners will have different levels of existing digital adoption. Workshops can be split and customised to meet the participants at their current level of need.

The Facilitator:

Natasha Berta has a Bachelor of Commerce with Majors in Interactive Marketing. She is super creative and works intuitively. She is a lover of systems that create ease.

Working From Anywhere - Securing your business against disaster and business disruption - Collaboration from Anywhere

Collaboration from anywhere
Today you will learn how to collaborate from anywhere, on any device, at any time. You will collaborate on documents in real-time with people in the room and others tuning in remotely.
You will learn the skills and benefits of using shared calendars and having your entire life schedule available on from anywhere, any time, on any device.
You will leave the room wondering why you didn’t do this sooner!

What is the program about?
The Anywhere, Any Time, Any Device Program has been put together to guide business owners through the step by step process of securing their business against disaster as well as future-proofing their businesses and opening up opportunities to re imagine how they do business.

How the program works
This program is a mix of presentations, workshops, hands on step step online tutorials, one on one and collaboration sessions. You will have the support of small business cloud specialist Andy Willis from Working From Anywhere throughout the program, both onsite and remotely.

Full Program Overview
Week #1- 4 Mar - Securing your business against disaster and business disruption
Week #2 -11 Mar - Working in the cloud
Week# 3 - 18 Mar - Moving all your data into the cloud
Week# 4 - 25 Mar - Securing your digital world
Week #5 -1 Apr - Accountability week
Week #6 - 8 Apr - Getting to Inbox Zero every day
Week #7 - 29 Apr - Collaboration from anywhere
Week #8 - 6 May - A complete recap and where to from here

Andy Willis
I run a successful business but I don’t have a permanent office. I’ve spent the majority of the past 5 Australian winters cycling and hiking in the French Alps, working on my business from there and immersing myself in the small French village community.

The rest of the year I spend in the small but beautiful coastal village of Tathra on the Far South Coast of NSW, Australia. Here I fit my work life around the surf, cycling or simply walking on the beach rather than the other way around.

Participants are welcome to attend for the morning workshop session only or take the opportunity to stay and collaborate with fellow business owners for the full day.

Andy Willis will be in attendance for the full day at the designated venue.

There will also be a limited number of individual one on one sessions with Andy available on each of the days by appointment.

You will get the most benefit from attending the full program, both from a learning and collaboration point of view.

Test Your Business idea - PRIME MODULE (Mandatory for Application to Activate Program)

Do you need to test your business idea? Have you validated your business idea? What does your business look like after the recent bushfires and now COVID-19?

Do you want to apply to join the next program offered at the Bega Valley Innovation Hub?

The ‘Imagine your Business - Recover, Re-Imagine or Test Your Business Idea Workshop’ has been specifically designed for early-stage startups, entrepreneurs and impact entrepreneurs to help refine and test their business idea before going to market, or re-launching after the recent bushfires. This is a core component of the Lean Startup methodology which is the build-measure-learn feedback loop. During this session, you’ll learn some tips and tricks to test and launch or re-launch a business idea in a capital-efficient way.

This workshop is designed to introduce the concepts that underpin the iAccelerate Phoenix program offered at the Bega Valley Innovation Hub and is a MANDATORY gateway to assist you in preparing an application for those interested in applying to Phoenix Accelerate Program at the Bega Valley Innovation Hub.

The purpose of this workshop: to give you the understanding and analysis framework necessary to test the viability of your business idea.

What will be covered in this workshop: What makes a business idea viable?

• Introduction to the iAccelerate business model cube
• How to identify different customer segments and personas – how to identify their jobs, gains, pains.
• Identifying the problem that you are solving
• Identifying the solution that you will create to remove this problem from your ideal customer’s life?
• Design accompanying products and services to add value
• Test your assumptions
• Introduction of the iAccelerate Growth canvas

​You will leave the workshop with a better understanding of your business’ value proposition design for you to add to your application for the Phoenix Activate Program.

Digital Readiness - Instagram Readiness 3 - Posting and Scheduling

This Instagram Readiness Workshop will focus on posting and scheduling to your business Instagram. You will create a month of content and schedule it using free tools. Private 1-1 sessions available for participants as required.

Since the bushfire disasters began in our region in 2019, several socially driven opportunities to increase economic support have arisen such as #bringyouremptyesky, #buyfromthebush and #spendwiththem, which provide opportunities for local business owners to promote their products and services both Australia-wide and globally.

Some challenges that have arisen for many businesses, are the lack of an existing online presence with capacity to sell products and technical skills to employ such technology. Training and technical support can bridge these gaps and allow economic recovery for local businesses. This training will be provided by a combination of workshops and one-on-one support for business owners.

We have identified four key technical areas where training is required to engage with the aforementioned opportunities and each of these has it’s own session. Book in for each module if you want to participate in the complete module.

• Instagram Readiness
• Website Readiness
• eCommerce Readiness
• Facebook Readiness

This modules begins with an initial Digital Health Check session conducted to ascertain the business owner’s ability to fully engage with the training process.

At the end of this module businesses will be better equipped to participate in the aforementioned sales opportunities via online platforms, sell their products and stimulate local economic activity.

This module has been designed to suit business owners will have different levels of existing digital adoption. Workshops can be split and customised to meet the participants at their current level of need.

The Facilitator:

Natasha Berta has a Bachelor of Commerce with Majors in Interactive Marketing. She is super creative and works intuitively. She is a lover of systems that create ease.

Working From Anywhere - Securing your business against disaster and business disruption. Where to from here?

A complete recap and where to from here
The last week of the program, we will start with a complete recap of your anywhere, any time, any device journey and look at the further opportunities to continue the journey.
Your business is now secure, next up is working towards spending more time living life outside your business.
Carpe Diem

What is the program about?
The Anywhere, Any Time, Any Device Program has been put together to guide business owners through the step by step process of securing their business against disaster as well as future-proofing their businesses and opening up opportunities to re imagine how they do business.

How the program works
This program is a mix of presentations, workshops, hands on step step online tutorials, one on one and collaboration sessions. You will have the support of small business cloud specialist Andy Willis from Working From Anywhere throughout the program, both onsite and remotely.

Full Program Overview
Week #1- 4 Mar - Securing your business against disaster and business disruption
Week #2 -11 Mar - Working in the cloud
Week# 3 - 18 Mar - Moving all your data into the cloud
Week# 4 - 25 Mar - Securing your digital world
Week #5 -1 Apr - Accountability week
Week #6 - 8 Apr - Getting to Inbox Zero every day
Week #7 - 29 Apr - Collaboration from anywhere
Week #8 - 6 May - A complete recap and where to from here

Andy Willis
I run a successful business but I don’t have a permanent office. I’ve spent the majority of the past 5 Australian winters cycling and hiking in the French Alps, working on my business from there and immersing myself in the small French village community.

The rest of the year I spend in the small but beautiful coastal village of Tathra on the Far South Coast of NSW, Australia. Here I fit my work life around the surf, cycling or simply walking on the beach rather than the other way around.

Participants are welcome to attend for the morning workshop session only or take the opportunity to stay and collaborate with fellow business owners for the full day.

Andy Willis will be in attendance for the full day at the designated venue.

There will also be a limited number of individual one on one sessions with Andy available on each of the days by appointment.

You will get the most benefit from attending the full program, both from a learning and collaboration point of view.

Digital Readiness - Facebook Readiness 1 - Facebook Business Page set up.

The Facebook Readiness Workshop is for anyone that wants create a Facebook business page. You will learn how to populate your page and ensure that your page is set up ready for your business to become social. Private 1-1 sessions available for participants as required

Since the bushfire disasters began in our region in 2019, several socially driven opportunities to increase economic support have arisen such as #bringyouremptyesky, #buyfromthebush and #spendwiththem, which provide opportunities for local business owners to promote their products and services both Australia-wide and globally.

Some challenges that have arisen for many businesses, are the lack of an existing online presence with capacity to sell products and technical skills to employ such technology. Training and technical support can bridge these gaps and allow economic recovery for local businesses. This training will be provided by a combination of workshops and one-on-one support for business owners.

We have identified four key technical areas where training is required to engage with the aforementioned opportunities and each of these has it’s own session. Book in for each module if you want to participate in the complete module.

• Instagram Readiness
• Website Readiness
• eCommerce Readiness
• Facebook Readiness

This modules begins with an initial Digital Health Check session conducted to ascertain the business owner’s ability to fully engage with the training process.

At the end of this module businesses will be better equipped to participate in the aforementioned sales opportunities via online platforms, sell their products and stimulate local economic activity.

This module has been designed to suit business owners will have different levels of existing digital adoption. Workshops can be split and customised to meet the participants at their current level of need.

The Facilitator:

Natasha Berta has a Bachelor of Commerce with Majors in Interactive Marketing. She is super creative and works intuitively. She is a lover of systems that create ease.

Digital Readiness - Facebook Readiness 2 - Using Posts and Stories - Content for 1 month

This Facebook Readiness Workshop will have you you creating content for your Facebook Business Page. You will learn how to create images and video for Facebook using free tools. We will explore the difference between Posts and Stories and the importance of Stories. Private 1-1 sessions available for participants as required.

Since the bushfire disasters began in our region in 2019, several socially driven opportunities to increase economic support have arisen such as #bringyouremptyesky, #buyfromthebush and #spendwiththem, which provide opportunities for local business owners to promote their products and services both Australia-wide and globally.

Some challenges that have arisen for many businesses, are the lack of an existing online presence with capacity to sell products and technical skills to employ such technology. Training and technical support can bridge these gaps and allow economic recovery for local businesses. This training will be provided by a combination of workshops and one-on-one support for business owners.

We have identified four key technical areas where training is required to engage with the aforementioned opportunities and each of these has it’s own session. Book in for each module if you want to participate in the complete module.

• Instagram Readiness
• Website Readiness
• eCommerce Readiness
• Facebook Readiness

This modules begins with an initial Digital Health Check session conducted to ascertain the business owner’s ability to fully engage with the training process.

At the end of this module businesses will be better equipped to participate in the aforementioned sales opportunities via online platforms, sell their products and stimulate local economic activity.

This module has been designed to suit business owners will have different levels of existing digital adoption. Workshops can be split and customised to meet the participants at their current level of need.

The Facilitator:

Natasha Berta has a Bachelor of Commerce with Majors in Interactive Marketing. She is super creative and works intuitively. She is a lover of systems that create ease.

Digital Readiness - Facebook Readiness - Posting and Scheduling your content - 1 month scheduling

This Facebook Readiness Workshop will have you posting and scheduling to Facebook. You will create a month of content and scheduling it using free tools. Private 1-1 sessions available for participants as require. This is for anyone that wants to schedule a month of posts to your Facebook Business Page.

Since the bushfire disasters began in our region in 2019, several socially driven opportunities to increase economic support have arisen such as #bringyouremptyesky, #buyfromthebush and #spendwiththem, which provide opportunities for local business owners to promote their products and services both Australia-wide and globally.

Some challenges that have arisen for many businesses, are the lack of an existing online presence with capacity to sell products and technical skills to employ such technology. Training and technical support can bridge these gaps and allow economic recovery for local businesses. This training will be provided by a combination of workshops and one-on-one support for business owners.

We have identified four key technical areas where training is required to engage with the aforementioned opportunities and each of these has it’s own session. Book in for each module if you want to participate in the complete module.

• Instagram Readiness
• Website Readiness
• eCommerce Readiness
• Facebook Readiness

This modules begins with an initial Digital Health Check session conducted to ascertain the business owner’s ability to fully engage with the training process.

At the end of this module businesses will be better equipped to participate in the aforementioned sales opportunities via online platforms, sell their products and stimulate local economic activity.

This module has been designed to suit business owners will have different levels of existing digital adoption. Workshops can be split and customised to meet the participants at their current level of need.

The Facilitator:

Natasha Berta has a Bachelor of Commerce with Majors in Interactive Marketing. She is super creative and works intuitively. She is a lover of systems that create ease.

Digital Readiness Module - Are you eCommerce Ready?

Readiness to participate in the socially driven opportunities on social media using a functioning eCommerce website is now needed more than ever.

The eCommerce Readiness Workshop on Tuesday from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm and focuses on understanding socially driven opportunities. This is for anyone who wants to participate in online and digital initiatives in a genuine and compelling way. We will look at hashtags, community building and extra resources for social media success. In addition private 1-1 sessions are available for participants.

Since the bushfire disasters began in our region in 2019, several socially driven opportunities to increase economic support have arisen such as #bringyouremptyesky, #buyfromthebush and #spendwiththem, which provide opportunities for local business owners to promote their products and services both Australia-wide and globally.

Some challenges that have arisen for many businesses, are the lack of an existing online presence with capacity to sell products and technical skills to employ such technology.

Training and technical support can bridge these gaps and allow economic recovery for local businesses.
This training can be provided by a combination of workshops and one-on-one support for business owners.

We have identified four key technical areas where training is required to engage with the aforementioned opportunity and each of these has it’s own session. Book in for each module if you want to participate in the complete module.

• Instagram Readiness
• Website Readiness
• eCommerce Readiness
• Facebook Readiness

This modules begins with an initial Digital Health Check session will be conducted to ascertain the business owner’s ability to fully engage with the training process.

At the end of this module businesses will be better equipped to participate in the aforementioned sales opportunities via online platforms, sell their products and stimulate local economic activity.

This module has been designed to suit business owners will have different levels of existing digital adoption. Workshops can be split and customised to meet the participants at their current level of need.

The Facilitator:

Natasha Berta has a Bachelor of Commerce with Majors in Interactive Marketing. She is super creative and works intuitively. She is a lover of systems that create ease.