Business Acumen
Rapide Resources is a new start- up venture from Industry Veteran Cameron Sutherland.
Cameron Sutherland has over 30 years experience. Starting his own business when he was 21 and sold the Australian wide business in 2017 to start a new career engaging, coaching , mentoring and providing specialty management programs to businesses that need direction. Cameron has vast experience in running a national supply chain company, national sales teams, turn key stock and logistics, International trade and very experienced in Marketing. Specialising in the Print and Sign Industry opened up many opportunities , through using latest technologies and lean business principles his business was an established turn key operation. Cameron is an international businessman, sourcing products, securing distribution and marketing.
"Cameron is a true entrepreneur, true to his cause and extremely focused on making his vision a reality. He is intelligent, driven and full of youthful vigor and I would have no hesitation in joining him in any venture or recommend him for any challenge put forward to him."
Marc Margetts Regional President Roland DG Asia Pacific
"I have had the pleasure of working with Cameron over the last 15 years as a distributor of our products in Australia. Cameron did a fantastic job of making sure his sales team was highly educated and experts on our products. He is strategic and showed a clear vision as to how to market his company and the companies he represented in his market. He worked extremely hard at understanding his competition and the products he represented and then used this information to form a concise sales strategy. I would recommend Cameron without hesitation"
Tim Leavensworth VP Strategic Marketing and Business Development , General Formulation, Michigan, US
"Cameron and I have shared building a business from scratch. He has natural entrepreneurial skills of can do attitude, positive and calm. I have appreciated his wise counsel over the years and would recommend his skills of building a cohesive team."
Yvonne Hackett Director Catalsyt Chemicals, Melbourne, AU
"Cameron Sutherland has been a client of my firm for more than 10 years. I worked closely with Cameron during his time at AVS, where he built the business from the ground up before negotiating a successful sale in 2017. He developed new products and markets for the business as it expanded throughout Australia. Cameron was a dynamic leader who forged many great relationships all over the world in the print industry. He has been a pleasure to work with and has become a great friend as well as a client"
Darren Smith , Principle DJ Smith Chartered Accountants, Melbourne AU
Growing Through Change
Cameron Sutherland started in 1991 selling Paint and Brushes to Signwriters, highly skilled artists who were required to serve a four year apprenticeship to be qualified. Selling Paint and brushes to an artist is easy when you have quality Sable Brushes and quality Signwriting paint.
It wasn't long until Electronic Cutters then Wide format printers changed the landscape and a skilled tradesman were replaced with machines and unskilled operators, it was evolve or die
All Businesses have to evolve and we all have to accept change. Having run Australian Visual Solutions for nearly 30 years meant continual change, how do you know when to change and which direction?
We have the resources to help your business change and grow.
Building Your Team
We all evolve, we embrace new technologies and we continually improve and surround ourselves with good people. Building a team is paramount to any success story. We can throw a million quotes at you but respect and communication is benchmark. Prior to Rapide, Cameron Sutherland grew his company, Australian Visual Solutions to a national based supply company with six branches and over 40 staff.
The business was run by the staff because we were a team, a family and we all respected ourselves, our team mates and number 1 our customers.
Let's get together and build a culture, mindfulness and respect and the rest will take care of itself.
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PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
Are you selling the right product to the right customer or heaven forbid the wrong product to the right customer, an absolute recipe to lose a good customer.
Importing, manufacturing or distributing product over a 30 year period tells a story, a story we want to tell you, educate you on the pitfalls and the open opportunities to sell the right product to the right customer and be a truly successful business.
We will discuss marketing, packaging and training your team to respect the product and sell it fit for purpose.
Online Sales and Tools for the Team
Our history of growth can't lie. Growing from a Melbourne based business to a national footprint meant we had to invest in websites, shopping carts, online payments, up to date stock and reduce costly and frustrating order processing and order errors.
Streamlining your process with innovation can be costly and should be a managed cost. It should be measurable and should be implemented as a continual improvement.
Let's show you how your sales team and customers can place orders with your company and transact seamlessly. Let's make it easy to deal with your company.
Shopping Cart, Orders and Warehousing......Logistics
Warehousing Nationally from one central customer service, shopping carts and external sales reps order. Is it streamlined, is it a process. A successful process that enabled AVS to service 6000 customers and process 1,500 invoices a day.
Are our your staff still manually entering your orders, shopping cart out of date or are the warehouse guys packing the wrong parcels or too inefficient.
Maybe all of the above is true or just a few points. All your process should be measurable, start with the initial order being correct and the software and systems should be doing the hard lifting.