Alan Manly OAM

Alan Manly AOM is the CEO of CampusQ and author of The Unlikely Entrepreneur. Alan is a published author, company director and entrepreneur with over thirty years of experience in the technology and education industries. Alan has twenty years of experience as a Company Director with private, public and NFP companies. He has been active in representing the education industry and is a former Board member of two education industry peak bodies.

Alan Manly is an Executive Council member at the CEOWORLD magazine. You can follow him on LinkedIn, for more information, visit the author’s website CLICK HERE.

CEO Insights

5 ways to impress your customers this Christmas

CEO InsightsAlan Manly OAM

With everyone trying stand out from the crowd this Christmas, impressing customers requires more than just cutting prices. Thankfully, the simplest and most cost-effective strategies are often the best. Tradition has it that we all owe the act of giving at Christmas to three magi “from the East” some 2,000...

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The 5 skills entrepreneurs need to succeed in 2025

CEO AgendaAlan Manly OAM

While sometimes it can appear that becoming an entrepreneur comes with a dream lifestyle, trying to get a business off the ground during a cost-of-living crisis in a cash-strapped post-pandemic world is neither easy nor glamorous. However, it is doable. But you're going to need a certain set of skills...

CEO Agenda

5 Ways to Ensure You Have Cash Flow When Starting a Business

CEO AgendaAlan Manly OAM

The decision to transition from comfortable employment to starting a business can be both daunting and exciting for the entrepreneur. However, the reality is that 80% of startups fail within the first year, and many of these failures are typically caused by a lack of cash flow. Ego can be...

CEO Agenda

5 tips for leaders to bring out your team’s intrapreneurial spirit

CEO AgendaAlan Manly OAM

Everyone has heard of famous entrepreneurs such as Gates of Microsoft, Musk of Tesla and of course Zuckerburg of Meta. But what about intrapreneurs? An entrepreneur is defined as a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk. While an intrapreneur is...

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6 Habits of successful entrepreneurs

CEO InsiderAlan Manly OAM

Over the past few years, the success of leading businesses and entrepreneurs has been thrust into the spotlight like we haven’t seen for many years with company values and profits surging. While no two businesses or entrepreneurs are the same, there are common traits that many of these most successful...

CEO Insider

6 ways to turn meetings from a cost into an asset

CEO InsiderAlan Manly OAM

The way businesses conduct meetings has certainly changed in the past 18 months and in years gone by they had typically been little more than a work-based social function on company time. While the thought of socialising with fellow staff has often been the driving force for employees to attend...

Tech and Innovation

5 things Entrepreneurs should look for in a potential business partner

Tech and InnovationAlan Manly OAM

Choosing a business partner is always challenging, as history shows us that many partnerships end in dispute. When considering the personal qualities of a potential business partner the old axiom, “Successful people surround themselves with those smarter than themselves” is worth bearing in mind. Smarter people in this case should...

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The 8 life skills you need to succeed in business

CEO AgendaAlan Manly OAM

One of the good things about being in business is that no one expects you to say sorry. The default mantra when delivering disappointing news is practiced recital of that catch-all phrase, business is business. This mantra is a window into other characteristics of successful people. Below are 8 traits,...

CEO Insider

What you need to know about raising capital for a new business

CEO InsiderAlan Manly OAM

Business, like life, is a story of yin and yang. This tale has two dominate players, who are interdependent in the raising of capital needed to get a start-up started. Firstly is, quite obviously, the entrepreneur. By definition, a “person who sets up a business or businesses, taking on financial...

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Redundancies an ineffective means of responding to a crisis

CEO InsiderAlan Manly OAM

We saw them in 2020 in response to COVID-19; we saw them during the GFC; just as we’ve seen them in every major economic downturn before them: mass redundancies. But at what cost? Major listed companies reveal multimillion-dollar “one-off costs” every time they announce a round of redundancies. However, that...

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Alan Manly OAM

5 ways to impress your customers this Christmas

The 5 skills entrepreneurs need to succeed in 2025

5 Ways to Ensure You Have Cash Flow When Starting a Business

5 tips for leaders to bring out your team’s intrapreneurial spirit

6 Habits of successful entrepreneurs

6 ways to turn meetings from a cost into an asset

5 things Entrepreneurs should look for in a potential business partner

The 8 life skills you need to succeed in business

What you need to know about raising capital for a new business

Redundancies an ineffective means of responding to a crisis

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