The elephant runs a business consultancy, a business help desk and business training workshops.

Are you ready to get your new business going?

Our business skills mentoring program is based on our own experiences of building and running successful businesses, coupled with our principal’s 13 years of commercial legal practice. It's based around the "1000 point guide to business planning" - and threin lies a funny story.

When I was a bankruptcy lawyer, I felt very bad about taking away Taylor's house. He complained that there awere "1000 things he should have done before he set up business." So he and I sat down, worked out what the 1000 things were, and i wrote them down and constructed my business course around them. Eventually, Taylor himself was able to follow them and rebuild himself from bankruptcy.

The "1000 points" cover areas of copyright, business planning, foreign currency transactions, use of offshore companies for asset protection, banking and finance, debt recovery, business negotiations and market testing. You don't have to do the whole series and if you prefer, you can just ask us to provide turn-key solutions for you rather than going through the training program to learn how yourself.

Our workshops and business services include supply chain management; distribution management, business planning, outsourced invoicing and distribution services; introductions to our customs clearance agents and freight forwarders for your exports; commission-based procurement for large orders of incoming product; overseas representation in the Chinese, Indian and Middle-Eastern markets; short-run production; introductions to domestic and international banks to facilitate international payments and access to our specialist team of lawyers and accountants who have expertise in import-export.

We operate a real-time business mentoring help desk (which does not extend to legal advice) – or subscribe for $250 per year for up to 10 x 20 minute help-desk sessions. We also operate business mentoring workshops, and one-on-one business mentorships at $100 per hour inclusive of GST.

Click here for the notes of the first workshop. If you want a sample 1-on-1 mentoring session based on the notes of the first class at the introductory rate of $100, just click on the email symbol

Buy the entire set of class notes for $55 through PayPal! Electronic delivery within 2 hours on business days.