Well, next week I will register and pay the fee for the workshop, which will give me the skills that are needed for my own distribution company.
Really looking forward to it. It is on the 20th August on a friday, Pastor Luke has offered to take me all the way to Balcktown.
The trainer, Corinne Campbell, has a wealth of experience and is author of the Comprehensive Import / Export Manual that you receive for free in the workshop. Specific workshop outcomes include:
Some of the things I expect to learn are as follows:
How to set right your International Banking
What grants are available and how to get them
What is the optimal choice to finance the trade
How to handle all aspects of documentation
Who to contact
What to do and what not to do
How to include all the hidden costs in your calculations
Which commercial risk minimisation strategies are appropriate
Well I will keep you all posted with the workshop and any progress which may or not come out of the workshop.
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
rear suspension
The last two weeks I have comtemplated rear suspension.
I have researched into what is already available, alot of wheelchair manufacturers make them, but ones in Australia don't make them to high standards, normally with normally rubber type suspension.
Invacare make suspension with aluminuim, but unfortunately, they are not idependent.
Again I see myself going back to COLOURS, they have developed successfully the independent suspension.
Those chairts would really be benefitial for most chair users in Australia.
My design works around the idea of a colar bone design. But thats going to be where it stays,a design, I will focus on affordablwe chairs, that I could hopefully sell in China and Asia.
Colours are still without a distributor in Australia.
I have researched into what is already available, alot of wheelchair manufacturers make them, but ones in Australia don't make them to high standards, normally with normally rubber type suspension.
Invacare make suspension with aluminuim, but unfortunately, they are not idependent.
Again I see myself going back to COLOURS, they have developed successfully the independent suspension.
Those chairts would really be benefitial for most chair users in Australia.
My design works around the idea of a colar bone design. But thats going to be where it stays,a design, I will focus on affordablwe chairs, that I could hopefully sell in China and Asia.
Colours are still without a distributor in Australia.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
N.E.I.S
Well people, here we go again, my daily rants, and ideas.
However on this occassion, I am thinking more seriously about my own business, wheelchair manufactures, I am not as Creative as the geniuses at Colours in America, so my ideas will be simple ones.
In Australia our medicare system don't fund wheelchairs, a scheme call PAPD does, and most applications are refused, hence my idea of affordable wheelchairs. I believe AMerica have more respect for the disabled, and I was once told if I had an option, that I should choose to live in America.
www.spinlife.com states on their website, that Medicare covers wheelchairs in America, and unfortunately in Australia alot of wheelchair users are not so financially supportive.
I suggest to myself to develop custom wheelchairs that everyone could afford.
One major set back is start up costs. I don't know much about business in Australia, but I was turned onto N.E.I.S scheme.
New Enterprise Incentive Scheme (NEIS) will endevaour to help with the business development.
Your NEIS provider will help you decide whether you should undertake a Certificate III in Micro-Business Operations or a Certificate IV in Small Business Management. This will depend on the type of small business you are planning. During the training you will also develop a business plan which will need to be approved by your NEIS provider.
NEIS training helps you to achieve a nationally recognised qualification, and is a Centrelink approved activity for up to 13 weeks. This allows time for completing the course (normally six to eight weeks), assessment of your business plan by your NEIS provider and any final business preparations.
If you have prior training or experience in business, you may be eligible for prior learning exemptions.
If your business plan is approved, you will receive NEIS Assistance, which includes:
NEIS Allowance for up to 52 weeks
NEIS Rental Assistance for up to 26 weeks (if eligible), and
business mentoring and support during your first year of business operation.
This is government system, but it looks rather sound knowledge.
I am now in the process of looking further into it.
However on this occassion, I am thinking more seriously about my own business, wheelchair manufactures, I am not as Creative as the geniuses at Colours in America, so my ideas will be simple ones.
In Australia our medicare system don't fund wheelchairs, a scheme call PAPD does, and most applications are refused, hence my idea of affordable wheelchairs. I believe AMerica have more respect for the disabled, and I was once told if I had an option, that I should choose to live in America.
www.spinlife.com states on their website, that Medicare covers wheelchairs in America, and unfortunately in Australia alot of wheelchair users are not so financially supportive.
I suggest to myself to develop custom wheelchairs that everyone could afford.
One major set back is start up costs. I don't know much about business in Australia, but I was turned onto N.E.I.S scheme.
New Enterprise Incentive Scheme (NEIS) will endevaour to help with the business development.
Your NEIS provider will help you decide whether you should undertake a Certificate III in Micro-Business Operations or a Certificate IV in Small Business Management. This will depend on the type of small business you are planning. During the training you will also develop a business plan which will need to be approved by your NEIS provider.
NEIS training helps you to achieve a nationally recognised qualification, and is a Centrelink approved activity for up to 13 weeks. This allows time for completing the course (normally six to eight weeks), assessment of your business plan by your NEIS provider and any final business preparations.
If you have prior training or experience in business, you may be eligible for prior learning exemptions.
If your business plan is approved, you will receive NEIS Assistance, which includes:
NEIS Allowance for up to 52 weeks
NEIS Rental Assistance for up to 26 weeks (if eligible), and
business mentoring and support during your first year of business operation.
This is government system, but it looks rather sound knowledge.
I am now in the process of looking further into it.
Monday, July 12, 2010
sturdy but simple
well here I go yet again, discussing my ideas to myself.
my may aim, (if I did end up going through the process of my own company) is to be able to build chairs for everyone, and then also being able to make chairs for poverty stricken people around asia.
whilst I was in Shanghai and most parts of china, I was able to help young people get into a wheelchair themselves, who would generallly not be able to afford one.
It gave me a sense of belonging to help those in Asia.
Although I would love to be able to make wheelchairs in the same league as Colours chairs are, I think practical would be more modest, in Asia, people who need chairs are happy just to have a chair, that means freedom, no longer needing to crawl on the ground.
I think fix frame chairs are just right. Most companies around the world make them, even Colours makes some, like their Spazz chair, but I am thinking good for people who can afford them, but more simply for those who cant.
a functioning wheelchair that meets it's purpose.
However, I may have great ideas, and alot of ambition, I think maybe I lack the ability and know how, and I sure that I wont be able to make any chairs as good as COLOURS chairs, I just don't think I am that creative, and for this purpose I have, I think my simple ideas are just as good.
my may aim, (if I did end up going through the process of my own company) is to be able to build chairs for everyone, and then also being able to make chairs for poverty stricken people around asia.
whilst I was in Shanghai and most parts of china, I was able to help young people get into a wheelchair themselves, who would generallly not be able to afford one.
It gave me a sense of belonging to help those in Asia.
Although I would love to be able to make wheelchairs in the same league as Colours chairs are, I think practical would be more modest, in Asia, people who need chairs are happy just to have a chair, that means freedom, no longer needing to crawl on the ground.
I think fix frame chairs are just right. Most companies around the world make them, even Colours makes some, like their Spazz chair, but I am thinking good for people who can afford them, but more simply for those who cant.
a functioning wheelchair that meets it's purpose.
However, I may have great ideas, and alot of ambition, I think maybe I lack the ability and know how, and I sure that I wont be able to make any chairs as good as COLOURS chairs, I just don't think I am that creative, and for this purpose I have, I think my simple ideas are just as good.
Thursday, July 8, 2010
front suspension
A common question I ask myself, how affective are fron tend suspension on wheelchairs?
Once again I see my self looking towards Colours in America, which I have said before, are market leaders in suspension.
Although I believe they may utilise the norm front suspension as most other companies do.
Those are the Frog leg suspension, however, the BOING wheelchair they produce, seem to have new system, a single arm, and not a handle I guess you could say.
I believe this withstands more punishment when hit at a bump.
the frog legs, take the impact at the rear, not like the single arm, they seem to take it directly, and therefore holding more push in the suspension.
I guess you could look at the forks on a mountain bike,or motor bike, a streight arm, connected to the wheel, that is the same impression I believe the BOING may have, and I believe Colours alternative suspension chairs may or may not use this tecchnologies.
Once again I see my self looking towards Colours in America, which I have said before, are market leaders in suspension.
Although I believe they may utilise the norm front suspension as most other companies do.
Those are the Frog leg suspension, however, the BOING wheelchair they produce, seem to have new system, a single arm, and not a handle I guess you could say.
I believe this withstands more punishment when hit at a bump.
the frog legs, take the impact at the rear, not like the single arm, they seem to take it directly, and therefore holding more push in the suspension.
I guess you could look at the forks on a mountain bike,or motor bike, a streight arm, connected to the wheel, that is the same impression I believe the BOING may have, and I believe Colours alternative suspension chairs may or may not use this tecchnologies.
Sunday, July 4, 2010
saber
It does appear that the most common need for wheelchair design is a chair that is fully adjustable.Within Australia there is only one company that has this ability.
Invacvare, however it does not adjust completely, I just seen the Colours in Motion in America, just released the Saber chair, completely and fully adjustable.
This is also a possible design that could be included in my own designs, if and when I start up/
At present, I am trying to get Colours in Motion, a distributor within Australia, the last distributor closed their sales department.
I believe that there are more advancements that can be made towards wheelchair designs, mainly what materials are used.
Invacvare, however it does not adjust completely, I just seen the Colours in Motion in America, just released the Saber chair, completely and fully adjustable.
This is also a possible design that could be included in my own designs, if and when I start up/
At present, I am trying to get Colours in Motion, a distributor within Australia, the last distributor closed their sales department.
I believe that there are more advancements that can be made towards wheelchair designs, mainly what materials are used.
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