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14 Female Entrepreneurs Up For E&Y National Prize
At the age of 22, Nicole Kersh taught herself HTML coding, read a few business books, and set up an e-commerce website in order to fulfill her dream of running a fully functioning warehouse of cabling and IT management accessories. She tracked orders during university lectures.
Her business, 4Cabling is today Australia's only direct-to-consumer manufacturer, wholesaler and retailer of such equipment. Specialises in voice, data, fibre, electrical cabling and server rack equipment, it has an estimated 15% of market share in Australia, with a head office in Sydney and a warehouse in Shenzen, China. Starting out with just 10 products, constant innovation has now seen 4Cabling offer over 2,000.
Kersh is targeting 25% revenue growth year-on-year for the next five years, with 4Cabling is about to open a retail branch in Melbourne and long-term plans to expand into Western Australia to meet the demands of mining clients.
Original press release: http://www.womensagenda.com.au/talking-about/top-stories/14-female-entrepreneurs-up-for-ey-national-prize/201305192171
Nicole Kersh featured in Madison Magazine
Nicole Kersh our Managing Director was featured in Madison magazine this month in the Business & Finance section of Australia's Top 100 Inspiring Women.
"Nicole Kersh, founder and managing director of ethernet cable supplier 4Cabling. The three things you didn't know about Nicole. 1# Her proudest moment was realising her independence and freedom after moving to Australia age 10 from apartheid-era Johannesburg. 2# Health and welling are high priorities. While making it to the top is an achievement making it to the top with both health and sanity intact deserves a medal. 3# She enjoys life outside of work. Nicole admits she is a hearing-inspired scrabble enthusiast, with a crossword addiction and a fondness for design, tennis, bad puns, gospel choirs and disproportionate passion for cable management products"
South Australian painter Emma Hack's work is gaining worldwide recognition
South Australian painter Emma Hack created the body art featured in the video for Gotye's hit 'Somebody that I Used to Know'.
Picture: Kelly Barnes
NOT many young artists can say their work has been seen by hundreds of millions of people all over the world. Emma Hack can.
The South Australian painter is the creator of the body art featured in the video clip for Gotye and Kimbra's worldwide hit Somebody that I Used to Know . The clip has been viewed by millions online and on television.
The 40-year-old started her career in hairdressing and make-up and went solo, specialising in body art, only recently. Along the way she received invaluable help from the South Australian Young Entrepreneurs Scheme.
"SAYES put together a business and marketing plan. I was given a mentor, Andrew Russo, a strategic planner and accountant," Hack says. "That filled in the pieces that I lack. SAYES chose somebody who could assist and co-ordinate my business. I just want to create beautiful things in life, not crunch numbers."
Her first break came by showing her work in art fairs. It was soon picked up by galleries, "and my sales doubled last year -- which is amazing because it's a want, not a need. I think making the right choices at the right time, and not just scrabbling for everything, is the key."Hack's work hangs in galleries throughout Australia and she is achieving worldwide recognition.
The Gotye work came via video producer Natasha Pincus, who sought out Hack.
"I had been wanting to do some stop-action body art and this was really cool," Hack says. "There was a month of prep. (The job was) pretty daunting; it was 23 hours straight. I was emotionally and physically exhausted."
The global exposure has helped business but what was most satisfying for Hack was the chance to show her art step by step, to rebuff any doubters who suspected Photoshop-trickery. "The clip allowed people to see what I do and to see that it's not fake."
NICOLE Kersh went into business in competition with her parents, who taught her everything she knew about electrical component wholesaling. But Nicole knew a few things that her parents hadn't taught her. Like making parts available any time, not just in a 7am-3pm day that coincided with most trades' working hours. "There was nothing available after hours, which seemed a little archaic," says Kersh, 29, who worked with her parents during uni breaks.
To get around the availability problem, Kersh, at 21, started her own online offshoot, cutting out the middlemen, and sold direct 24 hours a day (she taught herself how to build a website).
"I knew who the potential customers would be," she says. "I got the Yellow Pages and just sat there emailing people. I sold with very little mark-up to get some cashflow happening.
"It just grew and grew," she says of the fledgling business that started in her parents' garage.
After starting solely online, Kersh's company, 4Cabling, now has a physical shop. "We did things in reverse," she says. The customer base changed from trades to corporate and government IT procurement. Kersh now plans to expand from her Sydney base into Melbourne and Perth.
Her big break came when she asked her father what was a realistic goal she could set for herself. "Dad said, 'if you can make $1000 a day, you'll be OK'."
Kersh now has her own range of cabling made at a factory in China. "It gives us the freedom and flexibility to make whatever we want."
To aspiring entrepreneurs, she says: "Go for it. Be honest with yourself about your limitations; don't try to do everything -- delegate; it's not a dirty word."
BEN Carroll kicked off his printing business in an underground car park, working on an idea that his great uncle Noel Wighton had -- that traditional printing could take you only so far and that digital was the way to go.
"He was a printer and became my mentor. He would fly to Sydney one week in each month and help with marketing and other industry knowledge; he helped me through the first four or five years," Carroll says.
At 21, Carroll started his company, Velflex, "online, full colour . . . and my uncle saw the niche for importing and supplying the consumables (synthetic films) for digital printing".
"I borrowed from the bank and my uncle went guarantor. I invested in equipment and was heavily over-capitalised. I invested every penny back into the business and for the first three years lived on a knife edge."
Velflex prints numbers, names and other designs on jerseys principally for sportswear companies.
"Business gradually picked up and we really saw a big turn-around in our third year when we won a contract with Kooga sportswear," Carroll says. This year Velflex printed the shirts for Sydney FC in soccer's A-League competition. Customers can order their printing and design their artwork, get a quote and watch the production process online. "From quote to dispatch, you can see where the job is up to," Carroll, 28, says.
What he has learnt in business is the importance of cashflow.
"I was always about the sale and signing up the next customer," he says. "I put them on 30-day accounts and the business was going to go broke -- it used up a $100,000 overdraft in 18 months.
"An accountant told me I had the biggest amount of receivable debt he had ever seen in a small business. It gave me the biggest sleepless nights. I had to talk to people, get advice. I made a complete change in my business model and decided I had to focus on getting paid."
Original article: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/sme-business/south-australian-painter-emma-hacks-work-is-gaining-worldwide-recognition/story-fnhnt95z-1226620983041
WE'RE HIRING: Digital Content Manager / Jnr Producer - Internship X2
If you're someone who can't put down your iPad, addicted to Facebook, run your own blog, on Instagram, on Pintrest 24/7 and looking for a kickstart in digital media.
Well we're looking for you …
We're looking to hire two interns who are keen to get involved across our 4 online eStores. You'll be involved with producing digital campaigns, analysing consumer data, launching content, community management, assisting with media planning, creative concepting and lots of other cool and interesting geekie things we'll get you into that will blow your mind. To be successful, you must have; - Studying or completed a relevant course in marketing, comms, media, advertising, PR etc - Excellent communications written and oral - Excellent organisations skills and task driven, can meet deadlines - Good problem solving skills - A creative mind and open to pushing boundaries - A driven attitude toward work and a team player This is a serious role, commencing ASAP where we're looking only for talented individuals looking for a two year commitment. 4Cabling is the only direct-to-consumer manufacturer, wholesaler and retailer of cabling and IT management accessories in Australia. We specialise in voice, data, fibre, electrical cabling and server rack equipment, for more info please go to http://4cabling.com.au To apply, please submit your resume to [email protected] enclosing a cover letter explaining why you'd be perfect for this exciting new role and our internally facing digital team. We look forward to hearing from you. (And! No recruitment agencies please and thank you)
WORLD CABLE DOMINATION
Seven years ago Nicole Kersh, a South African–born and Sydney-raised entrepreneur, was leading two lives. The then 21-year-old was studying interior architecture at the University of New South Wales by day and learning everything she could about running an online cabling business by night. The line between her dual lives became increasingly blurred as business picked up.
“Each time the website received an order I would get a text message and, because it was before smart phones, to access the internet I would have to dash to the nearest computer to process it, head home to pack it up and then race to the post office to send the order off,” Kersh says.
There were only so many lectures and tutorials from which she could escape before she had to choose between continuing her education and building her business 4Cabling. She went with the latter and hasn’t looked back. “My parents were cautious about me dropping out of university and that made me resolute that if I took the risk I had to make it a really good choice,” Kersh says.
4Cabling is the only direct-to-consumer manufacturer, wholesaler and retailer of cabling and IT management accessories in Australia. They sell everything from server racks to network cabinets to cables for voice, data and electricity to uninterruptible power supplies. “Every office has a computer network that feeds back to a central point where information is housed and shared and that is facilitated through cables,” Kersh says. “My business supplies all the bits and pieces to support that infrastructure.”
Cloud computing means demand for these bits and pieces is at an all-time high. “We’re seeing a resurgence with cloud technology because it means people are investing in data infrastructure,” Kersh says. “It’s almost like a dot.com boom.”
In her first year Kersh sold $200,000 worth of equipment. Six years on the business she started with $9000 capital, operates from a 1600 square metre warehouse in Sydney’s Alexandria, is set to turn over $8 million this year and was named one of BRW’s Fast 100 companies for 2012. It has a strong distribution network throughout Asia–Pacific and will open a large new base in Hong Kong by the end of the year, all before its founder turns 30.
So what prompted this bright young woman to tackle the business of cables?
“I went to university but I wasn’t really one for that style of education,” she says. “If you’re not 100 per cent sure about what you want to do, it seems pointless.”
So Kersh’s mind was open to different possibilities while studying and working part-time in her parents’ cabling installation business, Elecdata. She soon spotted a gap in the market for a cabling supplier and decided to pursue it. Initially she set up 4Cabling within Elecdata but there was an inherent conflict of interest between the two enterprises. “You can't be a supplier and an installer in this industry,” Kersh says. “As 4Cabling gained momentum that became clear and we needed to make a choice.” She chose to go out on her own. Leaving the family business was a significant move but one Kersh did with her family’s blessing.
“I didn’t want to work for the family business forever,” she says. “Mum actually works with me now which is really lovely.” Her elder brother has since taken the reins at Elecdata and despite running businesses in the same field Kersh says they never talk shop.
“He’s my brother and I’m his younger sister,” she says. “At work I am as serious and focused as I possibly can be but when I’m outside of that I need to be able to switch off.” She wouldn’t change it for the world but Kersh readily admits that 4Cabling has been all consuming since the day she started it.
“It ate my life for many years and finding balance is something of an obstacle,” she says. “It is only recently really that it has calmed down. I have to force myself to stop, put my phone away and close my laptop at night otherwise I’m a constant mobile office and it never ends.”
The success of 4Cabling is undoubtedly a product of Kersh’s natural, and unrelenting, work ethic. While cables and cable accessories were familiar to Kersh, e-commerce and web development were completely foreign. “I read books on cabling, HTML and building websites,” she says. “At that time there was nothing in the e-commerce space in this industry. It was very hard to build a local website without having a development degree behind you.” Unperturbed, Kersh taught herself to code and built the 4Cabling website from scratch. “I wanted to be price competitive so I didn’t use a web developer which saved a lot and we had a really small margin at first because we were sourcing everything we sold,” she says. “It’s improved now because we manufacture the majority of products we sell.”
When it comes to business, Kersh is open to risks and likes to think big. “World cable domination is the joke in the office, which sounds sad, but it is the plan,” she says. Over the years she has built a solid, loyal team of 17, whom Kersh is quick to credit with helping her bring her grand ideas to fruition, including the launch of a new consumer-facing enterprise called Cablemanagement (cablemanagement.com.au).
Having that unwavering support inside the business has also helped Kersh deal with the challenges of being a young female chief executive in the male-dominated field of manufacturing. “My age has definitely been an issue at times,” she says. “I look quite young so I have dealt with lots of people who haven’t taken me seriously.”
Men aged 60 and over tend to be the worst offenders at dismissing her out of hand. “There are older men who just don’t like dealing with women my age. They think ‘What could she possibly understand?’” says Kersh. “I used to take my dad along to certain meetings because he is of that generation and we started hiring male sales staff to avoid any problems.”
She finds it frustrating that that is the reality. “It irritates me that there is such a divide and that for some people it’s not just about what your business offers but who you are, how you look and how you fit the mould,” she says. “One thing I enjoy about being online is that people find you because they’re searching for a particular product and it really is just about what you offer.”
Despite the difficulties Kersh has encountered as a young female entrepreneur, she has never contemplated giving in and encourages other young women to adopt a similar attitude.
“I would say to other young women in business to be completely honest about who they are and not let their age or gender serve as a barrier,” she says. “Sometimes being a complete outsider can be the best thing for a situation. I came into this industry with a completely fresh perspective and didn’t have any concept of how much I was challenging the status quo.”
Kersh has persisted in circumstances others, even adults double her age, might find overwhelming; touring manufacturing facilities in regional China on her own without speaking a word of the local language was particularly tough.
“In hindsight it was awful,” she says. “I was 24 and alone and I was in a car full of men visiting factories that looked close on the map but were three hours’ drive apart. I couldn’t speak any Mandarin and they couldn’t speak English but they were still pushy.”
She persevered and her business endeavours in China became infinitely easier after striking up a conversation, through an interpreter, with a local at a trade show in Beijing in 2008. “He was the only person there who talked to me,” she says. “His English was appalling and my Mandarin was nonexistent but we connected. He was working for a large manufacturer but he was looking for a better way and I needed someone to help me.”
He moved to Hong Kong, attended an intensive English language school and now runs 4Cabling’s operations in Asia. “We talk every day and meet once a year in Singapore,” she says. “It’s invaluable to have that trust over there and it’s also been amazing to watch how happy he is in his new life.”
As she chats about the various aspects of her business it is hard to imagine many other 28-year-old women in her shoes. “It’s not something I’d change but in some ways it feels like my life is in reverse, that I’m switching off more now than I was in my early twenties,” she says. “My friends have no idea what I really do which is actually great because I appreciate that distinction in my life.”
At least some of Kersh’s resilience and self-reliance is almost inevitably a result of her childhood in South Africa. “I grew up in Johannesburg during the apartheid which was terrible. It was a weird place to grow up,” she says. “We moved to Sydney in 1994 and I was 10 going on about 40. Our lives were very isolated and we had to entertain ourselves.”
She had never been to a park on her own until landing in Australia and had never seen a dog off its leash. “I kept looking behind and in front because I was worried that something could happen to the dog.”
These days, apart from tackling world cable domination and finding some balance between work and life, Kersh has very little to worry about.
Nicole Kersh was recently awarded the Australian Institute of Management’s NSW/ACT Young Manager of the Year 2012.