Business Boost

1. Causeway Innovation 

Causeway Innovation is offering confidential, strategic business advisory sessions free of charge to owner-managers of startups and established small-to-mid-sized businesses in the Noosa Shire.

Daily demands often prevent working on your business. We help you step away, review your current position, and focus on the big picture. Aligning personal and business goals, to help develop clear, impactful 1 – 3-year strategies

Offering

A focused, confidential consultation, typically one to two meetings (totalling 2 hours).

• Format: Offered in person (preferred) or online.
• Goal: To help you identify immediate opportunities to add value, drive growth, and integrate innovation to make your business more profitable and enjoyable to run.

Outcomes:

• Gain Clarity: Explore and clarify your personal and business objectives.
• Assess Potential: Identify the gap between your current position and where you aspire to be.
• Begin Ideation: Discuss and outline new ideas and alternative ways of doing business.
• Review Strategy: Examine your current business model to discover different paths to sustained profit.

Follow-up notes will be sent following the session, including guidance on specific business tools that can help with planning and implementation.

About the Adviser: Causeway Innovation’s founder, Colin Graham, has worked with over 300 businesses across a wide variety of sectors. He brings a broad, strategic perspective and proven track record to add value to local businesses.

Cost: FREE

Contact
Colin Graham
Telephone: 0418 594 545
Email: cgraham@causewayinnovation.com
Web: Causeway Innovation
Linked in: Colin Graham

HULK Media

HULK Media is a boutique growth consultancy with more than 25 years of experience helping businesses make smarter commercial decisions. Whether you're a start-up store or an established online retailer, this personalised consultation is designed to uncover digital opportunities and deliver practical recommendations you can implement immediately.

Offering:
Your 90-Minute Consultation
This personalised consultation is designed to uncover opportunities and deliver practical recommendations you can implement immediately. We take the time to understand your business, your customers, and your goals before developing recommendations that improve your online performance, accelerate growth, and maximise return on digital investment. Before we meet, we'll review your website, digital channels, market position, and current challenges so our time together is focused on what matters most. Following the session, you'll receive a written summary outlining key findings, strategic recommendations, and clear next steps.

Area We Can Help With 

•  E-Commerce Strategy – Online sales growth, platform optimisation, product/pricing strategy and marketplace expansion
•  Website & Customer Experience – Site performance, UX/UI, checkout optimisation, mobile experience and conversion rate optimisation
•  Digital Marketing & Performance – Google Ads, SEO, social media, paid media and campaign optimisation across channels
• Sales Funnel & Conversion Optimisation – Landing pages, funnel design, A/B testing, cart abandonment and conversion improvement
• Digital Transformation & AI – Automation, AI integration, martech/e-commerce platform selection and digital innovation
• Customer Journey & CRM – Customer acquisition, lead nurturing, email/SMS marketing, retention and lifecycle marketing
• Data & Analytics – Tracking, attribution, reporting, and data-informed decision-making

Cost: Free

Contact
Mobile: 0416 306 675
Email: hello@hulkmedia.com.au
Web: www.hulkmedia.com.au
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/jaysen
Video: Hulk Media

HULK Media  

Whether you're looking to increase revenue, improve profitability, generate more qualified leads, strengthen your sales process, or prepare for expansion, having the right strategy makes all the difference. HULK Media is a boutique growth consultancy with more than 25 years of experience helping businesses make smarter commercial decisions.

Your 90-Minute Consultation 
This personalised consultation is designed to uncover opportunities and deliver practical recommendations you can implement immediately. We take the time to understand your business and goals before developing recommendations that improve decision-making, accelerate growth, and maximise return on investment. Before we meet, we'll review your business and current challenges, so our time together is focused on what matters most. And following the session, you'll receive a written summary outlining key findings, strategic recommendations, and clear next steps.

• Business Growth Strategy – Commercial strategy, growth planning, and market expansion
• Marketing Strategy & Performance – Digital marketing, Google Ads, SEO, social media, and campaign optimisation
• Sales Strategy & Optimisation – Sales process design, lead generation, pipeline development, CRM strategy, and conversion optimisation
• Website & Customer Experience – Website performance, user experience, conversion optimisation, and eCommerce
•  Digital Transformation & AI – Automation, AI integration, technology selection, and digital innovation
• Business Optimisation – Business modelling, operational efficiency, and profitability improvement
• Customer Journey & CRM – Customer acquisition, lead nurturing, customer retention, and lifecycle marketing

Cost: Free

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Contact
Mobile: 0416 306 675
Email: hello@hulkmedia.com.au
Web: www.hulkmedia.com.au
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/jaysen
Video: Hulk Media

Dream Lab - AI Training 

Small, and micro business owners can access one-on-one training to help learn how to get the most from AI. In two hours tailored to your specific business, you'll have AI working for you with practical tools you'll use immediately.

Offering 
A focused, hands-on one-on-one training session helping you leverage AI effectively in your specific business.

Format: In person at your premise, or a coffee shop.
What you get: Learn to utilise AI to enhance your business; growth, efficiency and making tasks easier. Understand which tools work for you and walk out with something real you'll use tomorrow.

Areas We Can Help With: 

•  How to communicate with AI (prompting, context, getting it to sound like you) 
• Voice-to-text, learning how we can interact with AI, for maximum benefit
• AI for your actual tasks: proposals, emails, quotes, admin, graphics
• Which free tools work best vs paid platforms 
• What AI genuinely can do for you and your business 

About the Advisor
For 10+ years, Dream Labs founder has worked with Noosa small business owners building sustainable businesses. When you are doing everything yourself, Mike helps you use AI to do more, in less time.

Cost: FREE (2 hours) 

Contact 
Michael Hunt 
Mobile: 0481 199 606
Email: mike@yourdreamlab.org 
Web: https://yourdreamlab.org/

Lyn Allen Consulting

There a range of Business Grants that are published throughout the year which are highly competitive. Writing a successful grant can be hard work and take time. It is very important to understand and communicate how you will develop your project, explain clearly how you are eligible and meet the grant criteria.

Offering

Council is offering up to two hours grant submission support to eligible organisations. This can be used to:

• Determine eligibility for a grant
• Outline the requirements for grant preparation and grant outline
• Review your written grant application

(eligibility limited to business related grants only)

Cost
FREE

Contact
Lyn Allen
Lyn Allen Consulting
Contact: Lyn Allen
Mobile: 0401 116 894
LinkedIn: Lyn Allen

Kevin Wilson - Curator and Arts Writer

Personalised assistance from an experienced visual arts curator, consultant, and writer who has directed and worked across major public galleries in Melbourne, Brisbane, Albury and Noosa covering fine art, craft and design and social history. Founder of the Linden Postcard Show and the Noosa Floating Land art and environment project.

Offering

Kevin Wilson can assist you to understand where your practice is positioned within the ecology of the art world and how you can develop strategies to develop it further. Kevin can provide critical feedback on your work and offer detailed advice on:

• Applying for exhibitions and grants
• Writing about your work
• Marketing your work
• Running your art practice as a business

Cost FREE (up to 2 hours)

Contact details
Kevin Wilson
Telephone: 0423 186 862
Email: Kevin Wilson
Instagram: @kevincurator
Video: Kevin Wilson

1. Electricity Cost Reduction

EnergyFlex is a leading energy data and insights company that's revolutionising the way Australians interact with and think about energy. The free EnergyFlex tool empowers users to maximise the value of their ‘energy asset’ by understanding how they use energy, and optimising their use through small, practical changes in when and how they use electricity.

Offering

Receive 2 hours of expert 'Renewables Ready Coaching' designed to help you understand the energy transition to renewables and identify opportunities for your business to:

• Understand the financial and environmental impact of your energy use,
• Identify opportunities to shift your usage into greener, cheaper times,
• Significantly cut your energy bills,
• Discover your next best action to reduce cost, 
• Ensure you are on the best Electricity Supply plan for your business and,
• Accurately measure and manage your electricity-based carbon emissions.

EnergyFlex will review your current energy usage patterns to highlight opportunities for improvement and waste reduction on a pathway to lowering your overall costs. This process will introduce you to the EnergyFlex app, a powerful tool that allows you to track your usage and identify where adjustments can be made to maximise your energy outcomes.  

As part of the 12 month EnergyFlex offer, you will receive access to the dynamic energy plans comparison tool to help you choose the most cost-effective energy plan for your needs. By leveraging your Smart Meter data, the app helps you switch to the most competitive retail plan while reducing your environmental footprint. EnergyFlex empowers you with the knowledge and tools to use energy more sustainably, making your business both cost effective and eco-friendly.   

Cost: Free (Up to 2 hours)

Contact details
Garry Harding
Mobile: 0414 279 681

Email: info@energyflex.com.au
Website: www.energyflex.com.au

Business Mentoring Noosa is a voluntary organisation that helps local small businesses address new opportunities, resolve business issues or address skills issues through the one to one mentoring of business owners.

As part of the Panel, Business Mentoring Noosa are offering Noosa based businesses one free mentoring session (up to one hour) to provide the opportunity for businesses to assess suitability before committing to the membership and mentoring program.

*Please note that this is an addtional offer and does not count towards the limit of three service providers permitted under this program

Please email Business Mentoring Noosa directly to take up this offer.

Email: Business Mentoring Noosa
Website: Business Mentoring Noosa
Telephone: 5406 1291