How to Grow your Business by Working with Competitors

The Small Business Development Corporation (SBDC) has been providing small business owners in Western Australia with practical support, advice, guidance and referral to additional sources of help since 1984.Take advantage of a range of free and low cost workshops, and speak to one of their experienced business advisers, who can provide help by phone, email or in person.Visitsmallbusiness.wa.gov.auto access the Business Licence Finder detailing all the licences and permits you may need, plus you'll find a range of practical business resources, tools and templates.Aspiring and current business owners are invited to join more than 10,000 of their peers at the SBDC’s Facebook group‘I’m a small business owner in Western Australia’;a great place to gain knowledge and share ideas.

Small Business Development Corporation

Have you considered that your competitors could provide a potential revenue stream for your business? They could become your best allies.

Workshops delivered face-to-face or online

<p><strong>Please note</strong>: this event is run by the Small Business Development Corporation for small business owners in <strong>Western Australia only</strong>.</p><p>Coopetition is about unconventional collaboration with your competitors. This session will help you discover how to grow your business by thinking differently about your competitors, forming alliances and making collaboration work as a viable alternative revenue stream. </p><h3><strong>This topic covers: </strong></h3><ul><li>Examples of coopetition ; </li><li>How to identify potential collaborators; 
</li><li>Modifying your business model to suit coopetition;
</li><li>Developing an action plan to start coopetition. </li></ul><p>This event is for existing small business owners or managers who want to think outside the box on growing and diversifying their business. </p><p></p><p>The facilitator for this workshop, Blow Your Own Mind, encourages, supports and motivates business owners to re-harness their power, understand their innate ability to succeed and overcome any obstacles. So that your business reaches its full potential they look at the person behind the business to help you understand your motivations and to encourage self-belief. They specialise in practical learning experiences using the latest technology to help businesses and communities thrive.</p><p></p><p>This event is presented by the SBDC, the only agency in the Western Australian Government dedicated to helping small business. In fact, we've been providing practical support to small business owners for more than 30 years.</p><p></p><h3>Important booking information </h3><p>You are limited to two tickets per booking (you can of course make more than one booking).</p><p>We will be emailing you with important information on how to find workshop locations and what you need to bring, if it is a face-to-face event. If you are attending an online workshop you will receive instructions and a link on how to join and important information to ensure your device is suitable. Therefore, if you are booking for more than one person, please ensure you provide each person's email address. </p><p>To book for larger groups, please contact us on 133 140.</p><p>You can cancel your booking up to 24 hours before the workshop starts. Even for free sessions we would appreciate you cancelling if you cannot attend so another small business owner can take your place. For paid sessions, no refunds will be issued within 24 hours of the scheduled start time. </p><h3>Additional information for online workshop sessions </h3><p>Please check your computer's suitability for online workshops, including its sound quality, browser, internet bandwidth and speed and video plugins (if required) before the start of the online workshop session. Camera and microphone capabilities are recommended to interact with online workshops. </p><p>Our online workshops are run as live, interactive sessions, similar to the format of our face-to-face sessions. For this reason, there is a limited number of tickets per session so our presenters can adequately interact with, and respond to, attendees. Recordings of these live sessions are not available if you do not attend the live event time. </p><h3>Additional information for face-to-face workshop sessions</h3><p>No, you don't need to bring your printed ticket.</p><p>We value inclusion for clients requiring disability access and our workshops are delivered in a variety of buildings and locations. If you would like further information about accessing a particular workshop please use the contact button at the end of this page to send us your query.</p>

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