About This Episode Ideas are cheap. Everyone has them. Even great ideas are at a discount because so many people have them. What differentiates those great ideas that become great businesses from every other great idea is the attitude of the person with the idea and MOST IMPORTANTLY the action they take. There are ways to fast track your idea and ways to bury it so that it never sees the light of day. Do you know what they are? Irrespective of where you are with your idea this broadcast is one you will want to attend. Whether you are an existing business with a new idea, you want to revamp the original idea behind your business, you are an employee with an idea, or an entrepreneur about to launch your next big thing. On this live panel discussion our experts share their strategies and what they know that it takes to transform your great business idea into a great business. Joining Paul Lange on the panel will be Lynda Dyer – Founder of Mind Power Global, Best Selling Author and NLP Master Trainer, Johan du Plesis – Founder of Corporate to Freedom, Startup Incubator for Corporates, & Thomas Reid – Founder of Sync Venture Marketing, Managing Director of the Young Entrepreneurs Society, and Australian Delegate to the G20 Young Entrepreneurs Summit About the Guest Experts Lynda Dyer Lynda Dyer has been in the Motivation, Health, Fitness, Sport and Recreation for 30 years. Lynda won an “Outstanding Foreign Student Award” while completing her Masters Degree at the University of Oregon. On returning to Australia, she spent four years in pioneering the move to bring the community into the Universities with exciting recreation planning and programming. Lynda then moved on to open the innovative, world recognised, community Activities Department of the Royal North Shore Hospital of Sydney. Her dedication, innovation and enthusiasm was rewarded with an “Outstanding Young Australian Award”. She introduced natural health and personal development programs to this teaching hospital The department is now 24 years old and still serving the community. Lynda has gained an excellent reputation as an enthusiastic and motivating guest speaker throughout Australia and the world. She was recognised for her efforts by the World Leisure Association as a “Life Member”. As a motivator, Lynda encourages people to enhance their own abilities. Her teacher training workshops were becoming so popular she felt the need to open her own business and work full time on Training the Trainer in Motivation, Natural Health, Fitness, Recreation & Aquafitness. She researched personal development and natural health options for many years. Learn more about Lynda Dyer and Mind Power Global Johan du Plessis Founder of Corporate to Freedom – Business Incubator for Corporates Johan started his first business at 22 developing Fingerprint ID systems. They raised over $500K on a $3 million valuation, signed up 24 distributors and sold 14 major installations in the 3 years he ran he company. He then started a second business in Taiwan at 26 recruiting Western teachers, before settling into the corporate world for a few years. He’s a qualified Electronic Engineer with a Masters in Artificial Intelligence who have managed over $3.4 million dollars of high-tech R&D projects. To get the best business education money can buy he’s currently completing an MBA at Australia’s highest ranked business school. However he was astonished to find that Business Schools simply don’t teach you what you need to know to start your own successful business. That is why he quit the corporate world and founded Corporate to Freedom, where his mission is to find the best entrepreneurs and entrepreneur coaches in the world, get the best systems, techniques and philosophies on business success from them, and build that into practical programs to help people de-risk and de-mystify the process of starting their own business. “There’s an Entrepreneurial Revolution happening around us, and I want to give people the opportunity to be part of that!” He has built up an elite team of experienced entrepreneurs and business advisers, who will together present a one day Start-up bootcamp on Saturday 4 May 2013 in Sydney; which they promise will be “Australia’s most powerful bootcamp for aspiring entrepreneurs…” Learn more about Johan du Plessis & Corporate to Freedom Thomas Reid Founder of Sync Venture Marketing and Managing Director of the Young Entrepreneurs Society Thomas Reid has been a retail marketing expert for over 10 years assisting the expansion of hundreds of small businesses. A highly sought after corporate advisor aiding in the generation of over $500,000,000 in total revenue for notable companies such as Sensis, Colonial First State, St George Bank, AMF Bowling, Domino’s, McDonald’s, Pizza Hut and Subway. To showcase Australian entrepreneurship, Thomas and partner Louis Lautman are producing part 2 of The YES Movie which was featured in CNN, Forbes, Fox Business, NBC, Time Magazine and Sky News Business. As an Australian delegate at the G20 Young Entrepreneur Summit in Mexico City, Thomas advised global corporations and governments on the importance of identifying ideal channels of monetary distribution for business owners, start-up’s and entrepreneurs. Learn more about Sync Venture Marketing and The Young Entrepreneur Society Link to this post!