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MBE Business Service Centres – success made up of many parts

Sarah Stowe

If you’re like so many of Australia’s overworked corporate employees you’re probably sick of hearing how you need to do more with less. More hours, more responsibility, more stress, but not a lot more compensation. Sound familiar?

Work and life balance now ranks second only to compensation as the most important issue when making an employment choice. So if you want to take control of your life and step into your own business, MBE could be just what you are looking for.

With MBEÕs guidance and support you get more control over the type of business operation you can build. From a high volume retail-oriented business situated in AustraliaÕs largest shopping centres to a corporate account-oriented business in an industrial estate, MBE will help you find the ideal location and business mix to suit your needs.

A new era

Technology is playing a big part in our everyday lives, connecting individuals and businesses like never before. Australia is also becoming a services economy. An MBE franchise is ideally positioned to capitalise on both of these trends with a business model that combines the use of state-of-the-art technology to provide ongoing business services to AustraliaÕs ever expanding small to medium sized businesses.

Charles Batt, franchisee, MBE Parramatta, NSW

At this yearsÕ conference MBE Parramatta earned the award for The Highest Growth in 2009 across all MBE franchises in Australia and New Zealand.

“Having worked for a large IT distribution company for 15 years, with up to 60 staff under my wing, I was ready to move into my own business. I particularly wanted to be responsible for making my own decisions and being accountable for the results.

“Franchising clearly offered the best support structure; providing assistance in all steps of establishing the business and helping ensure a robust business process was in place.

“The appeal of MBE was that it is a problem solver for small businesses, with mail, print and design solutions. From the very first day it has been a process of ongoing knowledge-seeking to ensure that we can solve customers’ problems efficiently and effectively.

“MBE provides the structure and business model to be successful, and allows the flexibility for good franchisees to do whatever is needed to be relevant and valuable to their customers.

“The MBE franchisees across Australia are very supportive of each other and are constantly providing advice and assistance to each other as needed.

“What I have put into the business has paid off. I know that I made the right decision for my future working life.

“For me, MBE is all about having more control of my own destiny.”