These sisters are in the running for $10,000. You could be too!

An impressive range of businesswomen from across Australia have entered The Australian Women’s Weekly, Women in Business awards. But there’s still time for you to get involved in the awards, which are sponsored by CPA Australia.

Among the entries are three sisters from Brisbane, who are building up a successful international business placing teachers in work – and like many true success stories, it began in a lounge room.

The Lidell sisters – Kate, Carly and Emma – opened a teacher recruitment agency in Brisbane helping Australian and New Zealand teachers find positions in the UK and Asia.

There are 44,000 teachers out of work in NSW alone, and the Lindell sisters now help them find work.

As trained teachers who had terrible experiences with education agencies in England, they aspired to be different and were driven to create a personal and unique service for teachers looking for work.

Starting Point to Point Education (P2PE) in 2012, their office was anywhere from the local library to a cafe nearby.

And without any mentoring and training, doing what they believe in has been the driving force.

They began with the cheapest website developer they could find, and designed their own branding.

To get sales tips, they test drove cars and went to open homes to see – and eventually use – the strategies of salesmen and women.

This March, they opened their first branch in Paddington and have just taken on three staff.

Now teachers and schools come directly to them as they promote their service as personal and run by educations, not sales consultants.

Hoping to open a branch in Sydney by October, and in Melbourne by 2016, these sisters want to empower our staff to be the best in the business, and become so well known, teachers and schools think of P2PE first.

And $10,000 will certainly help them get there.

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