Qimono “Cloud” Community Grows 128% in 2014

In 2013 Qimono had 12000 businesses on its platform. This has grown to over 25 000 in 2014 more than doubling. Business advisory reports also increased by 158% delivering increasing customer advice. This is pleasing as business participation and report production are our key measures.

Growth came from successful deployments in Australia: NSW Small Business Commissioner, Service Skills Australia, Business Enterprise Centres, Australian Sports Commission (associations and clubs) and a number of consulting organisations. In particular the NSW developments place us well for National expansion in 2015. The October National Small Business Conference was a “tipping point” for Qimono. NSW Small Business and The Business Enterprise Centres demonstrated how they were able to support the business community and in particular the data on their community they were able to generate. All the other States were extremely interested. The Commonwealth Business Support Agency requested a presentation to their team in Canberra which was conducted in December. Watch this space.

The Australian Sports Commission continued to grow their interest as we built more business support resources for their associations and clubs. In addition a number of the Sports Associations sought direct engagement with us as they saw the value that our services delivered. Significant amongst them was the AFL, Australian Bowls and Cricket who would like to develop specific business health programs for their clubs

Internationally business grew in Scandinavia where we provided business incubation and acceleration services to ALMI (Sweden) and SIVA (Norway) in what is now regarded as world leading in business incubator support.

2014 saw us establish a beachhead USA client in Michigan where we launched our Virtual Business Advisor. Refer www.virtualbusinessadvisor.com.

This service was specifically aimed at reaching 90% of small businesses that traditional support systems cannot reach. These businesses are using search engines but don’t know what questions to ask … or advice to trust. The VBA provides the right questions and then provides a pathway to trusted answers.

“2014 was a satisfying year” said Keith Phillips CEO. “We matured the cloud platform and are proving the value as business votes with its feet.”

About Qimono:  Qimono is a company dedicated to using cloud technology to provide Business Advisory services. It is their belief that business advisory will be transformed using cloud knowledge systems and that Business Support Organisations and Businesses themselves will be able to gain access to advice and resources at a fraction of previous cost. And Business communities will gain significant insights through the “Big data” that can be harvested. The company is 10 years old, 3years in the cloud and headed by ex-executives from Apple, Microsoft, IBM and Vodafone.

For Further information: Keith Phillips

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