Meet Damien Parker
| Following a short career as a partner in a chartered accountancy firm (8 years) I commenced a hands-on, very practical business publication & training company specializing in the basics of increasing sales, reducing costs & improving productivity.Luck, timing & a small dose of ability in telling a good story resulted in a 22 year career where I wrote/sold in excess of 30 business programs/manuals which grossed $50 million…as well as writing and publishing Positive Business, the subscription based monthly newsletter which had 22,000 paying subscribers in Australia.
It would subsequently become the longest running newsletter in its category. I know, it was easy to write the first issue…280+ monthly issues later it wasn’t quite so! And for a number of years we even made it onto the prestigious Q400 list representing the top 400 privately owned companies in Queensland, Australia’s third largest state and its top holiday destination, the home of beautiful one day, perfect the next (a shameless plug, come visit us). In 2007, after some 280 monthly issues of the newsletter, I sold it and the business to New Zealand interests and promptly retired, aged 56. Yippee! Fast forward 7 years of living in France & other overseas destinations, plus, driving the obligatory 30-foot Winnebago around Australia, I’ve pretty well worked through the “bucket list”…and…gulp, have come to the realization that retirement isn’t all it’s cracked up to be and a realization that I actually loved what I used to do. Boom! It happened whilst living in London early in 2014! The wife, probably noting that I was moody and restless (again), made a prophetic observation, “Damien”, she said, “I married you for life, but not for lunch every day, why don’t you go back and do what you love.” |
Damien Parker Never a Hollywood A List member for looks, but a gazillion minutes of sales, profits and cash generating business experience are crammed into that filing cabinet above the eyes! |
After being sooky for awhile, I appropriately adjusted my ego for I realized she was correct…I did (and do) love the business of business.
So as a fit and healthy 63 year old, I am massively committed to taking all of my practical business material and converting it to the new digital online format so as to take it to the world. I’m excited and my new mantra is: I’m never going to retire. I love what I am doing.
You see, based upon my many years of writing business newsletters/products and interacting with small/medium business people at seminars and workshops, I KNOW I can add value in a very immediate, impactful way using the systems, templates & proven techniques which I employed in my career. And, dammit, I love the buzz of seeing sales, profits and cash blast into the stratosphere!
Back then, I was billed by various Speaker Bureaus as “Mr Small Business” in Australia, a title that sits somewhat uncomfortably on me, but true, I did get to speak to many, many self employed business people (I figure around 130,000 give or take) and I certainly got to know the issues.
| So much so that I was invited onto a few Governmental Boards to tackle these matters, but I quickly worked out that Governments (of all political persuasions) aren’t really serious about finding solutions…and I certainly gave them a “spray” of my disdain during my keynote address to the 2004 National Small Business Summit in Sydney.Not surprisingly, I’ve not heard from a politician since! And that’s good!
Yes, I am university educated with a Bachelor of Commerce as well as being fully accredited as a chartered accountant, but frankly, I am cynical of book-based education. I’ve seen too many people who look good on paper and have the qualifications, but then fail badly at delivering in the real world. It’s all about delivering on the result and this old warrior has plenty of “in the trenches” experience to know exactly how to deliver. |
Speaking at the 2004 National Small Business Summit in Sydney, Australia
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Truly, I do know the problems facing most small medium enterprises (SME’s) and I have spent a lifetime developing easy-to-implement template solutions.
Put simply Business person, if you want more sales, profits and cash in your business – faster and easier than ever before, whilst improving your lifestyle with much less stress…I and my products are your “turn to” solution.
Contact me now and benefit from my many years of hands-on, practical experience.
Here’s a brief visual overview of the products I created back then and a taste of what I am recreating for the new online delivery format.
