BusinessPlans.com.au, co-founded in 2000 by Nigel Catt and Theo Afkoudias, offers specialist business planning services to small to medium businesses.

Founded on the principle that every business should operate from a business plan, BusinessPlans.com.au set a mission to commence providing business planning assistance irrespective of levels of budget and expertise. This principal provided the foundation from which stemmed products and services that over years that have been adding value to many small businesses in Australia.

A key feature of BusinessPlans.com.au is that each level of service involves people helping people, with easy access to help and support offered to all customers. Smart systems and processes ensure exceptional value is offered to customers at attractive price points.

Find out more about BusinessPlans.com.au now.

About Theo Afkoudias

After completing a Bachelor of Economics (Accounting) from La Trobe University, Theo commenced his career as an accountant. His passion for understanding why some businesses succeed led Theo down an unconventional road into corporate sales and account management roles within the telecommunications and internet security industries.

Later completing a Masters in Business (Marketing) from RMIT, Theo commenced working in strategic marketing, rounding off his wealth of business experience and placing him in a key position to offer business planning services.

Theo has contributed to editorial in BRW Magazine, Ant Hill Magazine and been invited as a business planning expert on the Sky Business Channel.

CAD partners provide small to medium businesses with the opportunity to use the on-site skills of ex-corporate finance managers and financial controllers, without the normal high cost of hiring one.

CAD partners Financial Controllers (FC) bring to their customers knowledge of accounting from a business perspective, including accounting systems, big corporate type financial management, cash flow control, budgeting and strategic planning.

As one of the largest provider of computer accounting and business accounting services to small to medium businesses in Australia, CAD Partners have over 60 people in both Australia and New Zealand, all of whom are ex-corporate, senior management accountants and financial controllers.

Find out more about CAD Partners now.

About Sue Hirst

Sue Hirst is the director of CAD Partners, Financial Controllers.

The idea for CAD Partners was born when Sue was a practice manager for a Chartered Accounting firm. Experiencing first hand how customers usually got their management accounts once a year - often eighteen months after the financial year-end - she asked, "How can they manage a business on historical accounts that are a financial year or more old?"

In 1991, Sue began offering mobile management accounting and financial control services to small to medium businesses for a fixed monthly fee. Offering customers easy to read, monthly reports, the business grew substantially within the first two years.

With growing demand for "accounting reports that let you know where you stand", Sue franchised the business in 1993. Today, CAD Partners is the only large-scale provider of on-demand financial control services in Australia and New Zealand with over 60 advisors and 15,000 customers.

Sue remains passionate about educating business owners on important issues such as good cash flow management and financial control. As such, she features regular advice in small to medium business and industry publications.

Marketing Angels® was co-founded in 2001 by the current Director, Michelle Gamble having identified that smaller businesses need a different type of marketing service. They need someone to help them to define the right way to go to market for their business and then help them get it done with the limited resources available to smaller organisations.

Today, Marketing Angels® provides marketing services in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Canberra. A team of talented outsourced marketing managers and directors specialise in developing customised and fully integrated marketing strategies, public relations campaigns, advertising strategies, online marketing and customer relationship support.

Find out more about Marketing Angels® now.

About Michelle Gamble

Before starting Marketing Angels®, Michelle was part of the Internet revolution in Australia working at Telstra at the very launch of their Internet service and then in assisting in developing their content businesses as part of the Telstra Big Pond Team. She then became Marketing Manager for the Optus@Home Broadband Internet service.

Michelle has 14 years experience in the, marketing services, technology and telecommunications industries. Michelle studied Education at Canberra University and has a Post-Graduate Certificate in Management from Macquarie Graduate School of Management and a certificate in Direct Marketing from the Australian Direct Marketing Association. Michelle is a contributing author to the "Secrets of Marketing Experts Exposed" book and a columnist for My Business magazine, Retailer Magazine and Industry Update.