Sponsors & Partners

Platinum Sponsor

Netregistry does far more than sell domain names, web hosting and marketing services. After all, your goal isn’t the web server or the technology – it’s to build a better business. Netregistry is a complete online business partner, providing valuable seminars, workshops, weekly newsletters, free online business advice, free technical support and much much more. This is why Netregistry is Australia’s most trusted online provider.

Gold Sponsor

Midsize businesses are responsible for nearly 65% of the global GDP. Right now we’re working with thousands of these businesses around the world to help build a smarter planet. Visit IBM and discover how IBM and our Business Partners are helping to turn their vision into reality, and ideas into results.

ReachLocal brings order to the fragmented local Internet by connecting advertisers, publishers, and creative solutions providers together on one platform. Wherever customers are online, ReachLocal helps businesses find them with the broadest reach of local digital media, a dedicated force of local Internet Marketing Consultants, and technology that continually optimizes results.

Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in cloud computing. The company’s portfolio of Software-as-a-Service(SaaS) applications, including its award-winning Customer Relationship Management (CRM) application has revolutionised the ways that customers manage and share business information over the Internet. For more information visit: www.salesforce.com/au

Branding Sponsor

Thomas Marsden is a Sydney based digital agency specialising in providing creative, development and marketing services for your businesses online and mobile presence. From web design to SEO, ecommerce to iphone development our highly focused in-house team, which consists of both creative and technical specialists, provides a high quality, holistic web and mobile development service, giving you solutions that really work. www.thomasmarsden.com.au

Technology Partners

Yahoo! Search Marketing is a wholly owned subsidiary of Yahoo! and leading global provider of online direct response advertising products and services. The company offers a flexible and integrated approach to advertising tailored to client needs on some of Australia’s leading websites including Yahoo!7 and ninemsn. The measurable service offered by Yahoo! Search Marketing enables Australian advertisers to accurately target and connect with customers searching for products and services online. For more information about Yahoo! Search Marketing, visit http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com.au

HotFrog.com.au, your Australian online business directory, offers a simple and effective way to generate new sales leads. More than 2.7 million people use HotFrog.com.au each month to search for products and services from 1.8 million Australian businesses. Listings are free, include unlimited addition of product information, and are designed to be picked up by major search engines, offering an excellent way to help you reach new potential customers.

Event Partners

AIMIA’s membership represents the full spectrum of the digital media industry in Australia. Our members range from Australia’s top digital media powerhouses, including the ABC, Sensis, Yahoo!, Google, BigPond, Foxtel, Disney, ninemsn and Fairfax Digital, to the country’s best known interactive advertising, mobile content, web development, games design, and special effects companies. Members include developers, creators, producers, investors, service providers, educational institutions and students.

The Australian Businesswomen’s Network provides online mentoring, training and resources for women across Australia and facilitates opportunities for them to network, learn and be inspired by role models and by each other. A consummate user of technology, this ABN connects its national community of 20,000 women using social media and web-based platforms.

Australian Business Solutions provides growing businesses with cutting-edge, practical information designed for real business people who face real business issues. Australian Business Solutions magazine is jam-packed full of practical, inspiring and useable advice from an incredible range of exceptional business mentors. It offers practical “how-to’s” in every area of business from sales, marketing and finance right through to innovation, staff management and the law. (www.absmagazine.com.au)

BNET Australia is where managers come to find practical, trusted resources for the business challenges they face every day and effective techniques for moving their companies and their careers forward. BNET Australia is for people who believe in the meaning of work, are committed to nurturing their own excellence and know that contributing to the success of their company is the best way to make their personal ambitions come to life.

Digital Ministry is dedicated to Australian Digital Marketing professionals. The site aims to provide members with the tools to learn, share, connect and communicate with their peers. Digital Ministry also run Clickaholics, probably the oldest regular gathering of Australian Digital Marketing and Media professionals. Since 1999 they have been getting together to discuss the issues of the day in a relaxed, friendly atmosphere. Held in Sydney and Melbourne approximately every 6 months and all digerati are welcome.

DSBN brings together articles, business tools, useful downloads, small business information, information on events and seminars as well as special offers, providing you with momentum to help grow your small business. (www.dsbn.com.au)

Dynamic Business is Australia’s leading magazine for small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) and is complemented by dynamicbusiness.com, an online news resource. The magazine contains dynamic, expert commentary to help you grow your business. Available in all good news agencies nationally and on subscription. Subscribe online for just $1 an issue at www.dynamicbusiness.com/subscribe

Flying Solo – Australia’s community for solo and micro business. If you are one of Australia’s million solo or micro business owners or have dreams of going it alone, you’ll find inspiration, advice and a lively online community at www.flyingsolo.com.au. Expert articles are published daily on topics including starting out, networking, marketing, working smarter and technology. Plus find answers to any questions in their thriving forums – the ideal place to seek advice and build relationships.

Kochie’s Business Builders – Kochie’s Business Builders, which is screened on Channel 7, is Australia’s top rating small business TV show, dedicated to providing expert advice and ideas to budding entrepreneurs, small business start-ups, sole traders and small to medium-sized business owners. Check out: http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com.au/

Kreston Dormers is one of Australia’s most innovative and knowledgeable team of business advisers. Their focus is on helping you improve the performance and profitability of your business. They go beyond offering tax advice and financial reporting, they help develop your business, provide effective solutions to support your business to move forward and identify opportunities that can significantly improve your bottom line.

One of the fundamental editorial principles of Lifehacker is uncovering technology products and techniques that can make you more productive without costing you a fortune — and preferably not costing you anything at all. With regular coverage of how to organise yourself in your work and personal life, what applications to use to improve your daily efficiency, or how to plan and manage your personal finances, it has everything for the influential high achiever. www.lifehacker.com.au

Nett is a monthly magazine for small company owners who want to grow their business using the power and convenience of the internet. It aims to inspire, entertain and educate SME owners to develop their skills to improve the way they do business so they can have a fulfilling life with family and friends. (www.nett.com.au)

Pollenizer is a team of seasoned professionals who work with firms around the world to build online and mobile businesses. Our team members and network come from senior technology, product and business roles at Kazaa, Xing, Yahoo! and fast-paced startups. We have real, hands-on skills and work part-time, temporary roles in the business to accelerate results and improve the chances of success.

SmartCompany is a completely free news, information and resource site for Australia’s entrepreneurs, small and medium business owners and business managers to help keep them ahead of their competition. Every weekday, SmartCompany.com.au posts a daily news briefing, a round-up of business trends and ideas from around the world and SmartBlogs from SmartCompany’s handpicked network of expert bloggers. (www.smartcompany.com.au)

Taurus is one of Australia’s highest profile, privately owned, integrated marketing & PR agencies. We deliver strategic and smart integrated marketing, public relations and creative solutions to help drive clients business forward. Our clients range from smart entrepreneurs such as Napoleon Perdis to major ASX-listed corporations such as QBE. www.taurusmarketing.com.au

Viocorp is Australia’s leading online video and digital media specialist. Since its inception in 2002, they have focused on simplifying the management and distribution of online video. Viocorp quickly established itself as a dynamic and reputable internet broadcaster with full production capabilities, and over the last six years the company has firmly positioned itself at the forefront of digital media thinking in Australia. Viocorp invested its extensive video production and broadcasting experience and developed a suite of powerful digital media software solutions.