Over the past year, unimail has experienced rapid growth, doubling in size and moving offices. It has hired over 50% more employees, won numerous awards, and launched new services and divisions. The company has also expanded internationally, opening an office in Canada under the new brand Gradad. Looking ahead, unimail plans to focus on social media, student ambassador programs, print publications, analytics, and bringing the best international ideas to clients. The company aims to drive innovation through its unique company culture.

1. A Year in Review
A Year in Preview

2. There’s been so much going on at unimail that we thought
we should go through a few of the changing events that
have been represented in our company over the past 12
months.
However to set the tone, I thought it best to start with what’s
happened over the past 12 months around the world.

3. The GFC delivered fear, frugality
and shaky foundations to homes
across the globe with loss of
money, jobs and lifestyles…all
the while employment rates rose
higher and higher.

4. Forest fires delivered much of the same bringing a whole town to
it’s knees and the country to it’s pockets…what followed was one of
the highest generating fundraising efforts EVER in Australia.

5. Sydney-siders awoke to a red sky of their own as dust storms
delivered an apocalyptical sunrise to the beautiful harbour city…

6. It was a year of loss as some
great souls were taken too
soon…one of them a rockstar
that changed the world

7. Another who taught us to never be put into a corner,

8. A third who represented
the Australian dream

9. And another who represented a
hairstylist’s dream…

10. A country said sorry after so many years of transgressions...

11. A Tiger did too…

12. Another said sorry but sadly
too late as the damage was
done…and we all know to
whom!

13. Our prime minister was thrown out by a woman

14. And now we can’t decide if it’s the right thing to do!

15. There were some significant changes to people’s appearances

16. And even more so in
their relationship status
with the entertainment
ending

17. Jon and Kate
plus 8 became
a minus 2.

18. Robbie Williams broke all of
our hearts by finding true love

19. And our very own Miranda Kerr showed us we can all dream for our
own little Bloom

20. Whilst the world was kicking on at rapid
pace, so were we here at unimail…!
In the past 5 years, unimail !
has doubled it’s team members,
changed office locations 4 times, had an
average of 50% increase in revenue, won
11 awards and in general kicked some
arse…!
However, the last 12 months have been
surreal…!

21. We’ve grown
over 50% in the
last 12 months

22. We’ve grown
fast

23. We’ve grown at a hundred miles an hour!

24. We launched a brand
new website …

25. …unfortunately, we overshot the landing…

26. We hired lots of people…

27. …and got a little cramped in our old digs

28. so we checked into an inspiring new castle based on Barrack street

29. We have a lot of new team members, so here is an intro to our
lead team members who are heading up the divisions

30. Adam Culligan:
a.k.a. Cully
Job Title:
University Liaison
and in general
office larrikin

31. Andy Greer:
a.k.a. Andizzle
Job Title:
Senior Designer
extraordinaire

32. Brett Woods:
a.k.a. Woodsy
Job Title: Head of
Production for
studio and
publications

33. Dave Petzold:
a.k.a. Danger
Job Title:
Head of
Digital Design
and Useability

34. Fiona Luke:
a.k.a. Fi Balls
Job Title:
Account Director

35. Jade:
a.k.a. Jadeo
Job Title:
Business and
Office manager

36. Kate Fizzell:
a.k.a. Fizz or 180
Job Title:
Head of CRM

37. John Aufderheide:
a.k.a…John…
Job Title:
CFO

38. Sikko Baltus:
a.k.a. Sicko
Job Title:
Designer
Concept
Generator

39. Jeremy Norman-Nott:
a.k.a. Jerry
Job Title:
Head Geek and
programmer

40. Mahalia Wall:
a.k.a. M
Job Title:
Head of Admin

41. Lorna Whitehead:
a.k.a…to be
honest, I never
understand her
accent so I stick
to the basics here
Job Title:
Business
Development
Manager

42. Stuart Amm:
a.k.a. Stuey
Job Title:
Creative Director
and part-owner

43. Me, well, you all
know me…
Andrea Culligan:
a.k.a. AC
Job Title:
CEO unimail
CEO Gradad
Part-Owner and
Founder

44. We didn’t just hire new people, we did a lot of new stuff! We bought
new servers, new software and we switched the whole company to
MAC to ensure efficiency, up to date technology and creative
opportunity

45. Then we bonded…

46. December – Evicted from previous premises due to big train
With a feast of wine and lamb in the Hunter

47. January
And played some sketchy charades

48. February- morbid launch of new unigrad site
we raced around the ice…

49. we watched the horses race around the track

50. and in general had a really good time as a team…izzle

51. we even spent some time helping others with
a few charities.

52. We won
some awards….

53. October
in fact, we won a lot of awards…

54. and then we won some more,

55. and then I won one

56. and then we won some more.

57. And some more…

58. We started a consulting division

59. …where we work
with universities to
ensure all aspects
of their
stakeholders are
being met.
By looking at what
employers need,
students want and
careers service
provide, we can all
work together to
provide the most
effective solution.

60. And just when you
thought we couldn’t
get through any
more..

61. We scoured the
globe for where to
expand our unimail
tentacles…
???

62. …and fell in love with Canada

63. So After…35 Meetings
14 business
days
4 long drives
8 Ci%es
7 Flights
1 CONFERENCE…

64. …we started Gradad, a Digital Agency specializing in Digital
Strategies and Recruitment Videos.
Run by an Aussie in Vancouver, who used to be an client…

65. …we are expanding the unimail dream by also offering the first of it’s
kind student community website in Canada called Mygradguide.ca

66. And just when we thought it was going to settle down, I went and
married my sweetheart of 4 years, in Uluwatu Bali at sunset with
60 of our closest friends and family.
It was an amazing day and week and I thought I’d share a few
photos with you today!

71. And that’s all well and good but
where do we go from here?

72. With all the
good stuff
happening, and
the fast paced
growth it
became a little
unstable.

73. So we took on and asked for your feedback,
and it came in fast and furious

74. and we listened

75. You said – hey what about this social media stuff? So we hired the best
consultants and in house team to ensure we knew what we were doing
and why

76. And developed facebook fan pages for
unigrad.com.au, blog pages, we have twitter
feeds, rss feeds, live chat opportunities for
clients on unigrad.com.au and forums for
students to ask the tough questions

77. We have a dedicated University Liaison on campus
presenting work ready skills to students

78. Who also spends his time developing relationships with
student societies, associations and careers service
departments promoting your jobs, culture and your
opportunities….so yes, we pay him to do sack races..

79. We are commencing a student ambassador program for
unigrad.com.au where by we will have students on 13 campuses
around the country promoting and breathing the unigrad brand to
ensure you’re getting the reach you want to the students you need.

80. Our surveys and info sessions
with students, not to mention
the hundreds of requests we
get for more books each year,
are telling us that print is not
dead. They love the
publication….

81. it just needs to evolve as the market has. So we have
a number of areas we are looking at…

82. So we ensure the ability to measure the
success of unigrad as part of your
campaigns going forward …

83. …and to make sure you’re hitting the target with your candidates.

84. We took on board the
feedback for our
distribution service

85. …and now have a fully
dedicated team that will
complete the bookings, the
summary details, assembly and
storage, so your contacts will
remain the same.

86. Our design studio had the
opportunity to work with some
fabulous brands this year…

87. and our ability to conceptualise your needs and brand to…

88. …integrate them into award winning ideas was proven with
an award at the AAGE in 2009 and finalist status for the FEMA awards.

89. Going forward, using our
international knowledge
and regular investigation
of international markets…

90. …we will bring the best ideas to
our clients and ensure success,
measurement and efficiency.

91. And we will be able to achieve all
of this, by firstly making sure we
focus on our crazy fun company
culture,

92. ...that drives people to be unique,
innovative, creative, engaging and
communicating. So we’re always
hiring great people if you’re ever
looking!

93. Thank you so much for your
support over the past 12months!
You may have a few questions
about the next 12 and we’d love to
talk to you about that too…Thanks
again and glad to have you here..
To have a chat about all the
exciting things going on you can
find us here:
1300 134 121
+61 2 8296 7618
andrea@unimail.com.au
@unigrad_au
@acculligan