Angela Skrinos: Work still needs to be done to help COVID impacted businesses

Well-known fashion icon and respected business leader, Angela Skrinos, has been named as a finalist in seven different categories in the prestigious 2024 AusMumpreneur Awards. Angela is the founder of Raglan Fashion Warehouse Sales and Melbournesecretsales and now adds successful, full-time business coach and digital marketing to her accomplishments.

In business for over 30 years, Angela has supported retail fashion, beauty and homeware brands by shifting their inventory, freeing up their shelf space and budgets to continually bring in new season stock for their customers with millions of dollars' worth of stock passing through her warehouses, clients' warehouses and online sites.

During the challenges presented by the Covid pandemic, Angela's long-term, highly successful business model was challenged due to lockdowns and physical distancing rules, so she set about successfully pivoting her business towards coaching others in starting or rescuing their own business on a full-time basis. Meanwhile, her commitment to wholesalers continues as she continues to advertise warehouse sales to her many customers and assist other businesses to embrace the wholesale methodology as a successful sales strategy.

Having won awards in 2019, 2020 and 2021, Angela declined her nomination in 2023 as she restructured and worked as an AusMumpreneur judge that year. Now she is back with seven different finalist places in 2024. The categories in which she is a finalist are:

●    AusMumpreneur of the Year
●    Coach of the Year
●    People's Choice - Business Coach
●    People's Choice - Business
●    Retail Business Award
●    Business Pivot Award
●    Fashion Award

When asked what a lifetime of business and the recent challenges of the Covid pandemic have taught her, Angela is unwavering in her response and determination to drive growth.

"Never take your business for granted. Always keep learning and never be scared to pivot or change direction. Our minds are the most powerful thing we own, even if everything else fails, our minds can help us adjust, recreate and be even more successful than we were," Skrinos said.

"My greatest achievements have been opening up businesses for my clients and making their dreams become reality, along with helping other clients pull their businesses back from the brink of liquidation and restoring and growing them, even when it seemed impossible. Working with wholesalers to help them find new customers is another passion of mine and making the wholesale industry pivot to digital advertising is my greatest strength.

"Unfortunately, many business owners become so stressed and unsure of themselves that they lose the ability to see clearly and make good decisions. I help them to rediscover their business' strengths and markets and support them to drive growth and fall back in love with their business again.

"I have built up a wonderful and loyal following over the years. As a result, I have amassed a huge following online. I advertise direct-to-public warehouse sales and online sales so that my 500k customers have the opportunity to buy items heavily discounted.

"I believe we should all be able to look and feel special and this should not just be based on the price we pay."

The AusMumpreneur Awards are presented by The Women's Business School to celebrate and recognise Australian Mums in business achieving outstanding success in areas such as business excellence, product development, customer service and digital innovation. The awards are designed to recognise the growing number of women who successfully balance motherhood and business in a way that suits their life and family.

The winners of the 2024 AusMumpreneur Awards will be announced at the AusMumpreneur Conference, on the 16th of August at the Pullman Albert Park, Melbourne. 

The public can already vote on the People's Choice awards at the following link: Please support and vote for Angela Skrinos under category Business Coach and Business. 

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/AUSMUM24

To find out more about Angela go to https://www.facebook.com/raglanfashionwarehousesales

To read more about the awards and to VOTE for Angela, go to www.ausmumpreneur.com