Contact First Business Solutions
Indigenous Business Development
Indigenous Business Development
Taking pride in our successes
Contact First takes pride in the successes it has achieved to date of working with Indigenous people looking to establish successful financial viable business enterprises. During the years, some 30 Indigenous businesses have been assisted. Principal, Melanie Lavelle-Maloney is an Indigenous woman of the Bundjalung peoples of Northern NSW.
Contact First’s key objectives to working with both potential Indigenous business owners and existing business owners is ensuring that the Business Development Programs they have devised are primarily culturally appropriate and utilise a wholistic approach throughout the client/consultant engagement process. Melanie has assisted clients to be ‘business ready’ and to develop clients business skills further by the transfer of skills from them to their clients.
Melanie has over 30 years ‘real time’ business experience of successfully owning, managing and running successful business enterprises within Australia and Overseas. Melanie is proud of the fact that all Indigenous Businesses she has worked with todate, have been successful at obtaining either private or government finance to support their business development.
Contact First provides a variety of programs to assist Indigenous business owners develop successful business enterprises. These programs include: Facilitation of Business & Marketing Plans, conducting Feasibility Studies, Mentoring & Coaching, Training & Facilitation, Business Development Workshops, Advice/Assistance on Business Growth, Advice/Assistance on Buying/Selling Business, Project Management, Community Engagement & Facilitation.