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Great Companies: Please tell me something about the business and how did you come up with such an idea? Ravindra Singh Bhatia: Ravindra Logistics is into road transportation and working in full truck load category. Our in-house well maintained registered vehicles are our back bone and they help us in serving our high and medium profile clients from different industries. We have implemented technology (ERP and CRM) which gives us an edge over our competitors. We have a culture at Ravindra Logistics of maintaining organized approach towards our clients resulting to this we have a good retention rate of our clients. Great Companies: What are the various services and products provided by your company? Ravindra Singh Bhatia: Currently we are into road transportation vertical but yes we are looking ahead to get into warehousing. Great Companies: Why should one choose you over others in this field? Ravindra Singh Bhatia: "Our systematic approach and in house huge fleet is certainly going to make the difference. We are also continuously updating ourselves with implementing technology wherever required this is the reason we could serve our customers who are into essential commodity in this time of lock down." Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Ravindra Singh Bhatia: Operational complexity, dynamic situations always keep us on our toes. Great Companies: What do you think are the few main things which are most important for a successful business? Ravindra Singh Bhatia: 1. Good Vision. 2. Commitment of the team to work towards that vision. 3. Skilled Team and also the management must continuously work to update their employees with skills needed in the organization.

Great Companies: Please tell me something about the business and how did you come up with such an idea? Renee Henville: I had been part of in-house Human Resources teams for many years, and when on maternity leave a number of contract opportunities were presented to me. I jumped at the chance to contract to these companies and so Integrated Human Resources was created. That was 9 years ago, since then (and having 2 children) the business has grown to support over 90 businesses with a total of some 900+ employees. We are a team of 3 (+ a university intern), based in Burleigh Heads on the Gold Coast. Great Companies: What are the various services and products provided by your company? Renee Henville: We offer the full suite of HR support including Recruitment, Selection & On boarding, Employment Agreements and Policy & Procedure Manuals, Workforce Change and Restructure, Salary Reviews, Formal Performance Management, DISC Workplace Behaviour Assessment, WH&S Manuals, Workforce Planning to Terminations and Redundancies. Great Companies: Why should one choose you over others in this field? Renee Henville: In our 10 years of operation we have a 95% client retention rate, we have a very reputable business with strong values. We are a dedicated team who are truly passionate about seeing people and business succeed alike. We provide proactive and practical support and advice with the mind-set of what's best for the business. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Renee Henville: Employment Law within Australia is constantly changing and despite the challenges of Coronavirus, in 2020 Australia has experienced large reforms within Modern Awards and within the Fair Work Act. We ensure that we remain educated of all the changes to ensure best advice is given to our clients. As a business, our challenge is to engage businesses with 80+ staff as their outsourced HR department. Great Companies: What do you think are the few main things which are most important for a successful business? Renee Henville: Always learning, to everyday learn something new and to surround yourself with trusted advisors. To continue to challenge the status quo and to lead with integrity and honesty.

Great Companies: Please tell me something about the business and how did you come up with such an idea? Amit Prakash Pagaria: I decided to start this since 9th grade. After a great success of my previous business I got courage to do it now. I saw people making websites but none for the sake of getting business but only to make one! So I did my deep research in Google search algorithm and search engine result page I came across with the fact that making a Google friendly website will be not a cost but an investment for my clients hence we started working on it and since Dec 2017, we have been doing it successfully for our clients. Great Companies: What are the various services and products provided by your company? Amit Prakash Pagaria: Google Friendly Websites, Business process oriented customized user friendly mobile apps, Search engine optimization. Great Companies: Why should one choose you over others in this field? Amit Prakash Pagaria: It is always better to make an investment than doing expense, making Google friendly website will get my client on top rank of Google on their services or categories keywords on Google which would fetch more inquiries to them organically! So it is not just a website but an online salesman for the client. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Amit Prakash Pagaria: A lot struggle, In India it is tough to work on technical things, clients change mind like snap!! They change modules like woop! It disturbs. Great Companies: What do you think are the few main things which are most important for a successful business? Amit Prakash Pagaria: Keep thinking positive.

Great Companies: Please tell me something about the business and how did you come up with such an idea? Dave Williams: I applied for the position of Manager but have since bought into the company. Great Companies: What are the various services and products provided by your company? Dave Williams: Small totally private family and corporate charters, we specialist in designing a charter around our clients particular requests, we are fully licensed and can provide quality catering if required. Our services include charters of any length of more than 2 hours, overnight and sail training courses. We offer a unique range of experiences including laser clay pigeon shooting, guided history tours, team building events, Sunset charters, Romantic couples only overnight charters, Whale watching for small groups of up to 8 guests, Birthday and special events such as marriage proposals, dignified ashes scattering. Great Companies: Why should one choose you over others in this field? Dave Williams: Our vessel is only five years old and is kept in pristine condition, being a 12 meter catamaran we have over 84 square meters of deck and cabin space and three distinct entertainment areas. Our vessel sits 20 guest indoors in the event of inclement weather and when the sun is shining our forward and rear sun decks are a place to be. Our experienced Skippers know the harbour like the back of their hands and always put the safety of their passenger, crew and vessel first. We like to see our guests having fun and enjoying our beautiful harbour but we are not a Party Boat so if you want loud music, strippers and smoking by all means go elsewhere. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Dave Williams: Keeping our vessel looking it's best, maintaining a high level of staff training and essential vessel maintenance. Dealing with the wide and varied dietary needs of our guests. Great Companies: What do you think are the few main things which are most important for a successful business? Dave Williams: Keeping an open mind and embracing change. Speaking to competitors and obtaining feedback from clients, always being aware of changes in the industry to try to keep ahead of the curve.

Great Companies: Please tell me something about the business and how did you come up with such an idea? Achary Kalki Krishnan: Initially, all these were at the level of hobby and passion only, however, growing popularity and near and dear ones' crowd literally compelled for 360 degree change in the profession. Great Companies: What are the various services and products provided by your company? Achary Kalki Krishnan: All the products and services, one can contemplate, relating to mystic sciences. Great Companies: Why should one choose you over others in this field? Achary Kalki Krishnan: Just because, we are the real professionals in an otherwise controversial sector. We have established the benchmarks decades back in a highly irregular field, which even today, cannot be imagined by others. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Achary Kalki Krishnan: The sector is still highly unorganized, beyond any institutional discipline. Due to this, it is being infested by non-deserving, non- serious, money minded people as well as thugs only, which causes professionals like us difficult to operate. Great Companies: What do you think are the few main things which are most important for a successful business? Achary Kalki Krishnan: Expertise, Dedication and Sincerity.

Great Companies: Please tell me something about the business and how did you come up with such an idea? Vidhya Rana Vyas: It's amazing to have an idea but it's like all stars lining up for your good will when your team gives a thumbs up and take plunge for you. Every office and college in Ahmedabad has the same story- skipping breakfast and rushing to colleges or workplaces and when hunger yells out of stomach, we gobble anything greasy, easily available junk adding to belly tyre gradually and a grace of health, activeness goes lacking significantly. Being comp-engineers, having a mostly sedentary work style we realised we didn't really have a healthy, easy and yet tasty option for food. Out of dire necessity of good food, healthy taste-lovers and a bunch of geeks- we came up with the marvellous concept of LoveForSalad at our first coffee round with newly welcomed Morphy Richards at office. Great Companies: What are the various services and products provided by your company? Vidhya Rana Vyas: LoveForSalad provides four basic categories of salad- Pasta Salads, Fruit Salads, Green Salads, Sprout Salads with a complementary drink and filler. A nut to end with and wait...some food for thought too- read a beautiful liner/doodle while you have such good food. Love your health? You'll love LoveForSalad. Pre-pay Health Packs for 20 days and more. Great Companies: Why should one choose you over others in this field? Vidhya Rana Vyas: 1. Classy Quality. 2. Engineer's touch. 3. More than just healthy meal. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Vidhya Rana Vyas: Target customers are niche and limited. Manpower often keep on changing in food industry and training new staff, keeping up with ongoing business, maintaining quality and speed while we chop fresh and then delivering quickly is challenging. When you prepare fresh, shelf life is limited and deliver in time: scaling is difficult. Salads for meals are yet not a lifestyle for the masses, so dine-in (easy, stable food business- mass production and serving quick on the table or buffet) doesn't align with our concept. Great Companies: What do you think are the few main things which are most important for a successful business? Vidhya Rana Vyas: The product should speak for itself (and you). · Systematization. · Timely funding, achieving break even and profit- fund utilization smartly thereafter for the growth path. · Automation as much as possible. · Strategic marketing. Sales should be on the mind of the founders always. · Growing Network.

Great Companies: Please tell me something about the business and how did you come up with such an idea? Jed Morssinkhof: The business is a new start up trade business, brought to life by my passion dedication to the industry. The idea was something I had from when I was in trade school and the timing was right to pull the trigger on my dreams and go for it. Great Companies: What are the various services and products provided by your company? Jed Morssinkhof: Design, Installation, Maintenance, 24/7 breakdown service to all aspects of Refrigeration and Air Conditioning equipment. We tailor a solution for you and your budget. Great Companies: Why should one choose you over others in this field? Jed Morssinkhof: The biggest thing I/We pride ourselves on with this company is to provide the best service and advice we can to our customers. We are Honest, Reliable, Non bias and very professional company that provides our customers with piece of mind that they are in the best hands they can be, and no issues is too big or too small for us. Every customer to us is the #1 priority no matter the issue. Everyone of our customers receives exactly the same service and professionalism. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Jed Morssinkhof: · Challenges we are all facing right now is the issues around COVID 19. Also being a new start up business, this is making it hard to meet new clients and their business. The uncertainty around this virus is making people withhold from their usual spending habits and having to work with smaller or no budget at all. · Struggles would be being beaten on jobs and quotes from companies that miss lead the customer up front or provide in adequate services. Great Companies: What do you think are the few main things which are most important for a successful business? Jed Morssinkhof: · Education. · Communication. · Open minded. · Creating your own opportunities.

Great Companies: Please tell me something about the business and how did you come up with such an idea? Jasmin Whately: Personal Experience made me want to create change, I started Whately Photography with the vision to help others see their own individual beauty. A lot of people growing up will generally have the same experience of school yard bullies, bullying their appearance and just who they are in general. Our own individual Beauty on the inside and on the outside are all unique, i created Whately Photography to help share our own individual beauty, emotion and personality. Great Companies: What are the various services and products provided by your company? Jasmin Whately: Whately Photography covers many area which includes: Weddings, corporate, Maternity, New-born, Boudoir, Family Portraits, Events and Model work. Great Companies: Why should one choose you over others in this field? Jasmin Whately: I enjoy Weddings as it gives me the opportunity to see the couple together and create a story based around them. Once i find out a bit about them, i am then able to capture there authentic emotions based on what they love. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Jasmin Whately: With a lot of Photography businesses out there, our main challenge was standing out in the crowd, so we tried a few avenues to market the business by seeing what other businesses were doing and found that it didn't suit our businesses Values, then we realised the answer was straight in front of our face, we want our clients to feel connected with us with open communication whether that's over a cuppa or a phone call, and to feel comfortable in front of the camera, so we needed to be able to connect with our clients with using our own Businesses values. We then decided to contact a few business coaches to see who was the best fit to help us define our marketing and sales whilst keeping to our core values, unfortunately we found a couple of business coaches who wanted to change our way of dealing with our clients in a more confronting pushy way, then we finally found a really good Business coach who appreciated our values and worked with us to define it, and then our last challenge was we got really busy which i say is a good challenge so we decided to hire some staff making sure they accepted and appreciated our businesses values and now we have an amazing team of 5 to present our business and its values to our clients the right way. Great Companies: What do you think are the few main things which are most important for a successful business? Jasmin Whately: Patience, Passion, Commitment, Dedication, Strong Relationships, Customer Focus, and Value.

Great Companies: Please tell me something about the business and how did you come up with such an idea? Naomi Thomas: After working in the Event Management space and travelling around the world with my grandmother, I ended up working for Flight Centre and then several other agencies from home. After 13 years I stared my own agency. Great Companies: What are the various services and products provided by your company? Naomi Thomas: Mostly International travel for corporate travellers and group travel. Great Companies: Why should one choose you over others in this field? Naomi Thomas: After travelling the globe and working in travel for over 15 years, experience really is everything. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Naomi Thomas: Right now, business is very hard. People don't really know how we get paid. The price is the same going direct! We get paid by the suppliers. Meaning people pay a gross amount and we then pay a net amount and the margin in between is how we get paid. Although this margin is small, people think we "add on money" and it "costs more" which is simply not true. Great Companies: What do you think are the few main things which are most important for a successful business? Naomi Thomas: Flexibility, Innovation and a passion for what you do.

Great Companies: Please tell me something about the business and how did you come up with such an idea? Jamie Forster: I am on a mission to help people live to their best potential without limitation. Great Companies: What are the various services and products provided by your company? Jamie Forster: I specialise in family therapy, working with adults, children and young people or groups, and offer counselling support for those undergoing fertility treatment. Great Companies: Why should one choose you over others in this field? Jamie Forster: I am deeply invested in my clients as individuals and work in collaboration with them, to help them put their best foot forward. I am continuously engaging in further training to ensure I can support my clients with the most up to date and effective techniques available and am using the most current research to help support them along their journey. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Jamie Forster: My biggest struggle is that there is simply not enough hours in the day. Honestly, my biggest struggle is working with someone and being able to see more potential in them than they can see in themselves, but I have learned that if I persevere with patience, warmth and a non-judgmental way of being eventually they will see it too. Great Companies: What do you think are the few main things which are most important for a successful business? Jamie Forster: For me, the foundation of a success business is treating others the way you want to be treated. Always act with integrity and learn when to say no, but always practice saying yes.

Great Companies: Please tell me something about the business and how did you come up with such an idea? Tamara Bellingers: Solar installation specialists wanting to provide the most energy efficient products to our customers and to ensure that their power bill is not a bill that stresses them out. Great Companies: What are the various services and products provided by your company? Tamara Bellingers: Solar installation, maintenance and repair, commercial maintenance and repairs, large solar farm installations, large chiller installations for commercial premises, domestic services for electrical. Great Companies: Why should one choose you over others in this field? Tamara Bellingers: we care about our customers’ needs and want them to experience our services as a benefit that helps them now and into the future. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Tamara Bellingers: cheap competition, flooding of the market. Great Companies: What do you think are the few main things which are most important for a successful business? Tamara Bellingers: employees and suppliers are the most important without having good relationships with them you can’t have good relationships with customers.

Great Companies: Please tell me something about the business and how did you come up with such an idea? Thomas Murrell: Eight is a very lucky number in Asian culture … meaning prosperity and wealth? Our goal is to bring wealth and prosperity to the people we work with. I help companies make their value proposition more compelling for investors. This means embedding myself in their business and taking a seat at the management table. I challenge CEOs and Directors to better communicate their business strategy, competitive position and ability to execute. My ideal clients are in resources, biotechnology and agribusiness. I also leverage this knowledge as a conference speaker, author, MC, facilitator, media trainer and executive speech coach. I enjoy working in the Asian time-zone in a multicultural environment. Since 1997, 8M Media and Communications has been providing high level strategic consulting advice to leading organisations in the areas of investor relations, investor communications, corporate communications, public speaking coaching, public relations, media relations, crisis communications and media training. Based in Subiaco, Perth with a global outlook, 8M provides boutique, bespoke and customised public relations advice in strategic and corporate communications. 8M Media & Communications, provides solutions to media and communication issues for Top 500 companies, Government agencies and leading Universities. We are specialists in how to build, brand and sustain your personal, professional and corporate reputation. Great Companies: What are the various services and products provided by your company? Thomas Murrell: An integrated and creative approach aimed at improving performance through: Change Management - Improve your success rate in achieving long lasting and effective change. Strategic advice on how to communicate change to key stakeholders, investors and employees. Strategic Marketing - Increase revenue, market share and company profile with a well focussed and innovative marketing plan. Media Strategy and Management - Developing long term and effective relationships with the media. Identifying and recommending target audiences and the best channels of communication. Designing and implementing creative media strategies for maximum impact. Writing, producing and distributing effective press and video media releases. Issues and Crisis Management - Managing a crisis or an issue out of control. Developing crisis and risk management plans to minimise damage to your organisation from the internal and external perspective. Media and Public Speaking Coaching – Have more impact with your presentations with better speech structure, content and delivery with customised one on one coaching. Understanding how the media works, what makes a story, when to comment and what to say. Managing and improving media performances with practical one on one sessions on effectively getting your message across for print, television and radio interviews. Strategic Planning – Develop a strategic plan for your organisation with clear outcomes and objectives. This involves our unique "7 V " methodology that covers: vision, values, voice, visibility, vitality, vibe and viability. Great Companies: Why should one choose you over others in this field? Thomas Murrell: 35 years’ experience - expert knowledge and experience covering investor relations, media relations, corporate communications, public relations, media training, public speaking, Corporate MC work, conference speaking and corporate speech coaching. This includes more than 26 years’ experience in strategic and corporate communications. Specialties include shareholder communications, capital raising presentations, reputation management, shareholder registry analysis and strategic relationship management on the buy and sell side, investor engagement, corporate communications, trend analysis, management of compliance issues, media relations and media training. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Thomas Murrell: COVID-19 has been the biggest struggle with travel restrictions and cutting of budgets. Great Companies: What do you think are the few main things which are most important for a successful business? Thomas Murrell: Every business owner, accountant, lawyer, engineer, designer, coach, consultant, speaker, author or professional knows that while running your own business or selling your time for money can be rewarding, it is also very challenging. On a daily basis you face problems and issues that need to be resolved. Like how to attract, win and retain even more profitable customers? How to leverage your expertise? How to raise your profile and visibility? How to achieve your goals and ideas? The personal, emotional and financial cost can sometimes be enormous and we are often left to find solutions to these problems on our own. It can be lonely and exhausting. 8M Media & Communications has a new and innovative way to attract, win and retain even more profitable customers. It positions you for profit and profile by using a MasterMind format, personal mentoring and a 1-page Goals Plan to maximise your chance of success. We want entrepreneurs, small business owners and experts who… 1. Have a desire to build their businesses; 2. Are prepared to share their experiences and knowledge; and 3. Are committed to growth and development. How High Viz for Small Biz Works Join a small group of people in a peer-sharing and one on one mentor program where professionals and experts learn from others, with a 1-page goals plan to guide you. Each Action Learning Group will comprise of up to 10 participants – business owners, experts and professionals from non-competing businesses. You will meet monthly for three hours to discuss and find solutions to your problems around branding, positioning, marketing, PR, sales, distribution, networking, public speaking, writing and social media. The program is unlimited, but has minimum sign-up periods. Challenge yourself to get advice on your toughest problems, whilst you develop a 1-page marketing goals plan with the help of one-on-one mentoring for two hours a month. During each session, all participants will have an opportunity to share a problem. The group will then use its combined experience to identify possible solutions and create an action plan for the business owner. Imagine 10 other experts sharing their experience with you. This really is a powerful opportunity to get practical and lasting solutions.