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Are the traits already there? Howdy. Hope you are well. I’ve been writing a speech tonight. It’s about the lessons I’ve learnt as I’ve gone along in business and what I’ve found are the important aspects, for me, in success. I’ve been thinking of examples of these traits in action. Examples of the trait and […]

It’s just not funny…….maybe Hello. Hope your weekend went well. You always learn something from everything you do. I wrote the blog below on Friday afternoon. It’s a tongue-in-cheek, over-the-top, outrageous post meant to be funny. Emphasis on “meant to be”. Jo, Mel and I all went through it. * Jo didn’t like it – […]

After Jack bought all of his camping gear for his birthday, we just had to try it out. So off we went camping – out the back of nowhere to an old bush camp site.10 pm middle of a Rain Forest, miles from nowhere. 2 excited boys. 1 still wearing his bush hat (must think […]

A couple of the businessmen we manage are the keynote speakers at a seminar here on the Gold Coast tomorrow. We’re having one of the speeches videod for future use. I spoke with a number of local firms for the videoing. And here was my thinking in the selection process. # 1: Had to be […]

I was asked yesterday, as a marketing guy, who I thought did the best job in marketing their product at the Olympic Games. My answer seemed to amaze the people asking, but I’ll stick with it as one of the most effective marketing strategy examples I’ve seen in years. And the winner of best marketer […]

Navigation down side, broken links, etc Howdy. Thanks for everyone’s feedback on the site. Couple of technical issues have reared their ugly head and we’re working on them now. Edited: 11.15 am: We’ve just added the remaining pages. Now that’s done we can start adding additional articles, case studies, etc. Our next fixes are the […]

2 examples – measuring and asking Hello. Hope you had a good weekend. I got to thinking after the blog I wrote on Wednesday after my training session with Sam. As you probably know, I try and tie back the takeaways (or lessons) in the articles I write, back to real life examples. And although […]

Howdy. We’re currently (10.30 am 2 Sept in Australia – 8.30 pm NY) uploading our new and improved site. If you visit over the next few hours you might find some screwed up pages, a couple of missing pages and a few other bits and pieces. Don’t worry – we’ll be going through the site […]

I had an email last week from a University/College student “My group and I have an assessment which involves planning a mock event in which we have decided to include a motivational speaker. We were wondering if we could gather some information such as his (she mentioned the speaker specifically) booking fee etc so we […]

This post is in response to Aaron’s comments on the blog from yesterday “My question is this: As a web designer, which to you is best… To target a niche (realtors, lawyers, resorts etc.) Or to work for anyone in need of a web presence? In your web design business kit, your way to do […]