Networking, meeting people, getting new leads, discussing new ideas and opportunities is really the bloodline of any business, isn’t it?
When I started out in my very first business, I wish I had a group of similar minded business owners I could meet up with so together we could share our problems, share our victories and help each other along the way.
Many years on, 3 different countries and many businesses later, this bloodline necessity has not changed.
Often the journey of a business owner or entrepreneur can be lonely. It is often difficult to find other people that have the same mindset, that understand both our problems and our quests to reach our grandest dreams! “Who can I talk to, to bounce my ideas off?” is a common question many business owners ask! Because of both our journeys of building businesses from scratch, John Gemmell and I believed there was a great opportunity to develop an entrepreneur’s hub where business owners could network and mastermind their problems. We created the Ideas into Business monthly 5 on 5 Speed Networking events so business owners had a super fast, friendly, very affordable but highly structured way to network, gather leads, referrals and explore new ideas and opportunities with local business owners. Our Business and Wealth Creation Mastermind Clubs were created for those business owners who are ready to take their business to the next level and who want to turn their business into valuable assets to set themselves up for life. These 3 hour monthly meetings are highly focused on exploring your individual problems and finding solutions by our board room style masterminding with fellow business owners. This is a very powerful forum and is reserved for business owners who are truly serious about building bigger and more profitable businesses.
About Luke Fatooros
Luke co-founded his first business at the age of 23. Starting out in his fathers shed, together with his partner, he turned $800 into a $12 million company with 65 staff within 5 years.
He recently created a company valued at $3.5 million dollars, from a home office, working just 2 days a week.
Luke has over 15 years’ hands on experience of building businesses in South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, USA and Canada.
Luke’s passion now is teaching others to build bigger and more profitable businesses.
Luke’s Accolades:
• Ernst Young Entrepreneurs Award, South Africa, age 26
• Microsoft Top 5 Companies Award , South Africa, age 25
• Wesbank Top Performing Companies Award, South Africa, age 25
• Generated Sales of over US$12 million within 5 years in his first
company, age 23
• Built a $US 4 million finance business within 2 years
• Designed Sales Strategies for NZ’s largest retail chain and increased
division sales from $28 million to $65 million in 4 years
• Designed a Sales Model to make Gateway Computers NZ the only
profitable Gateway model in the world
• Designed and executed NZ’s most successful retail PC campaign
which broke the HP World Record per capita for selling 33
containers of PC’s in 3 days
• Built a company valued at over $3.5 million in 2.5 years, working 2
days a week, working from a home office
• Voted No 1 Online Business Tutorials by Chair, NZICA, 2010
Luke’s expertise are:
• Joint Venture Structuring
• Multiple revenue stream generation
• Profitable and scalable business modelling
• Creating value in businesses
• Preparing a business for maximum profits when selling or attracting
investors
• Sales acceleration strategies
• Systemisation and automation platforms
Qualifications
• Honours Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering
