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Your feedback on the first week of FNT
Starting a new business is fraught with danger with anecdotally failure rate statistics offered up by social commentators of 9 out of every 10 businesses fail in the first year of operation. With those statistics why would anyone, let alone a husband and wife team, want to spend their limited resources on odds that are stacked against them from the outset. Not one for buying into hearsay Rhonda and I managed to do a bit of research - more out of curiosity than of trepidation of having rumours validated - and found studies agreed that at the 4 year mark, 50% of small businesses were still open and trading. By year six, the success rate had fallen to 40%. Not quite the monumental collapse prediction for first starters to the small business industry from those who have probably never dipped their toes into the daunting domain of small business risk taking. Rhonda and I have been overwhelmed by the positive responses to the first week of our new business venture from varied sources nationally. To Stephen, Rhonda and the Team! My congratulations on the first edition of First Nations Telegraph! It is a superb read showing balance, thoughtfulness and sophistication and the stories are absolutely fantastic. Well done guys and I look forward to reading the next edition. These are the things that bring out community pride and I congratulate everyone involved. Best regards, Aden Ridgeway and Just wanted to say thanks brother, you have truly shown your commitment to your people & lands. Thank-you for your generosity & assistance from you & your family. Hope you are up to doing Guest Speaker programs as we would love to have you share your story. Much love & blessings Yours in the Cause Karen Coghill
From former Senator Aden Ridgeway from Sydney to strong social justice campaigner and founder of the Brisbane Tent Embassy, Karen Coghill, the messages of support to the first week of production of the First Nations Telegraph has been fantastic and much appreciated. Our team at FNT - management and all contributors - will continue to listen to public feedback and where possible, and practical, implement suggestions made. After all this is your site and our goal is to have you, our readers, take a couple of minutes out of your business daily schedules to click on our daily posts to read about news from around the nation that affect our mob. We have had encouraging feedback from the corporate sector who have expressed a strong interest in advertising with FNT as a result of them following our posts daily. Whilst the website is free for all our readers - hits on our counter at the bottom left of our site show the traffic flow - it is paid advertising from the public, community and government sectors as well as the corporates that will allow FNT to grow and offer more services for our readers.
You will see the growth of advertising on the pages of our web site as we accumulate weeks of operations under our belt. Simultaneously we will announce new First Nations journalists as well as correspondents and columnists to our growing team. Several young journalists have been impressed by what FNT offered content wise in the first week of operation and have indicated a preparedness to be part of the team. If you have a story and photo you want to share with our readers please send them to admin@ firstnationstelegraph.com. If you want to be included, or have your family or friends included in our daily email posts of stories, please send an email to admin@ firstnationstelegraph.com and we will include you in our daily mail outs. Thanks to all readers for taking the time to click on to our web site and most importantly for being a repeat visitor. As our motto announces at the top of our home page - Keeping Our Mob Connected - please share FNT’s website to your family and friends and let’s all stay connected and informed.
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